Tag Archives: Diego Velazquez

velazquez: the infanta

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Dave

There is the portrait by Velazquez of the Infanta Margarita, small hands firm on the huge frothing and shimmering skirt of red and silver, the curls shining, the wide confident eyes incuriously fixed on their great delineator, the Hapsburg cheek … Continue reading →

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velazquez: dwarfed by absolutism

Posted on March 2, 2013 by Dave

Put them all in a row. The famous dwarfs, or bufones: Don Diego de Acedo, a court official and not a jester at all, who set up to be the painter’s cousin and a man of letters, a tiny creature … Continue reading →

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soul of spanish painting: truth comes first

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Dave

Spanish painting. All the qualities are found in one form or another: the extravagance, the earthiness, the harshness, the illusion and disillusion, the gay and grotesque. The themes are God and Man, nature getting a bare look in. And of … Continue reading →

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collection with the public purse

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Dave

Charles I was Britain’s most discerning and energetic royal patron, buying much art and encouraging many continental artists. With his ascension to the throne in 1625, it was a turning point in English connoisseurship. Charles had grown up under the … Continue reading →

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brother’s keeper

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Dave

The perspective of the bull depends on where one is situated. For Hemingway, bullfighting is a metaphor for the intricate but often pre-determined relationships between men and women replete with sacrificial qualities and doused with pagan animalism. From a more … Continue reading →

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passion for painting

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Dave

Isabelle Stuart Gardner’s palace of paintings…. Perhaps the most astonishing single aspect of Fenway Court today is the disparity between its present value and what it cost Mrs. Gardner. Morris Carter, her biographer said, said that what she paid was … Continue reading →

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kitschy-goo

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Dave

This is a great quote from art critic Donald Kuspit. Kuspit is something of a traditionalist; or rather looking for the old sense of spirituality and insight into human nature to be found in art, a kind of sane dignity … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Clement Greenberg, Diego Velazquez, Donald Kuspit, joel-peter witkin, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pablo Picasso, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

children being cute

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Dave

Children being cute as a metaphor for superficiality. The new image of the child being born in innocence and the painter to capture that ripe moment of angelic realm before the inevitable gradual tarnishing of the soul. It was a … Continue reading →

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idiot wind

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Dave

The body being brought to life by perverse aesthetics. The body as the be-all and end-all of existence and the only thing of significance and importance in a relationship. Its a hyper objectification that uses abstract means, part of what … Continue reading →

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madame x : plantation to paris

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Dave

The French were considered to have less scruples relating to eroticism than the English. Manet’s Olympia broke the mold, but, in an exhibition where paintings of nudes were common, that of Madame Gautreau in black evening dress was considered more … Continue reading →