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money matter: paint by big $ numbers
Are people buying the work for its aesthetic qualities or are they buying the brand. The artist as brand. Although Artur Koestler said buying a reproduction is the same as owning the outright original. Its Cultural economics where the market … Continue reading
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Tagged adele bloch-bauer, Alberto Giacometti, alfred lessing, Arthur Koestler, daniel boorstin, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollock, Lucian Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Thorstein Veblen, willem de Kooning
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degenerate art : fear of the everyday hucksters
Signs of pretense. Pretend art where the sentiments are an elaborate fake far removed from genuine emotion. Something like what Freud called the joke in art in his study of Michelangelo’s Moses but now on a grand, industrial scale of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged albert speer, Andy Warhol, Bruce Nauman, dan graham art, daniel boorstin, Edvard Munch, Erich Fromm, gitta sereny, Guy Debord, henri Lefebvre, jay a. clarke, Jeff Koons, Joseph Schumpeter, lynn h. nicholas, Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Theodor Adorno, Vanessa Beecroft, wilson bryan key, YSL Mondrian dresses
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skating for the stars
Kitsch was the dominant theme behind French Salon painting and English Victorian art; the heavier it was buttered onto canvas the better. Sentimental decoration and dreary bourgeois values sparked the anxiety inducing fear of kitsch as one of the central … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged brett yormark, D.W. Winnicott, daniel boorstin, david michaels NBC, gilbert stuart, gjon mili, hendrick avercamp, juliet macur, Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, walter granville smith
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