Tag Archives: Diego Velazquez

Facing up: masked to uncover the other

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Dave

Maybe Levinas was just yelling into the canyon, hearing his echo, catching the attention of a few gophers going about their business in the void. However, the implications of what he was expressing was quite profound, nothing less than a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Diane Arbus, Diego Velazquez, doon arbus, emmanuel levinas, Gustave Courbet, Jean Paul Sartre, joel-peter witkin, Martin Buber, Marvin Israel, Nicolas Poussin, patricia bosworth, Simone Weil, william todd schultz | Leave a comment

variations of destructive mockery

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Dave

Overrated? Is it true that Picasso could pathologically destroy, or sabotage paintings of the old masters by sullying and subverting them? Is it simple playfulness,a prank,a mockery, a tribute, or an attempt to surpass the original? Strip Picasso of his … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Diego Velazquez, Donald Kuspit, Douglas Cooper, freddie rokem, john bratby, Lyonel Feininger, melanie klein, miles w. mathis, Pablo Picasso, pierre cabane, Rembrandt, roland penrose, Sigmund Freud, Simon Schama, susan buck-morss, susan galassi, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

the living clocks: navigation by the sun

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Dave

Does the season go off inside of us, like a ringing in the blood? People have always associated the burgeoning of spring with the coming of warmer weather; the spring warmth, we feel, has roused the earth from dormancy. But … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Diego Velazquez, Edmund Spenser, gustav kramer, harry allard, James Thurber, Jan Brueghel, jan brueghel the elder, philip Stubbs, Sandro Botticelli, wightman garner | Leave a comment

OLYMPIA GAZE: DIRECT AND DEFIANTLY UNACCOMODATING

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Dave

“On first inspection, one might wonder what all the fuss was about. Manet considered himself a painter of still life, and perhaps that’s why Olympia has such a quiet mystery about her. She lounges serenely, starkly unclad but strategically adorned … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Antonin Proust, Berthe Morisot, Charles Baudelaire, Diego Velazquez, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Francisco Goya, Julie Lorenzen, Linda MacDonald, Manet Olympia, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Paul Verlaine, Salon des Réfuses, Salon des Réfuses 1863, Stephane Mallarme, T.J. Clark, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Victorine Meurant | Leave a comment

COUNTRY LIFE: IS PARIS BLUSHING?

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Dave

He was a painter trained in the staid academic tradition but too exuberant to be constrained by it: He was influenced by the old masters, particulary Velazquez and Goya, but Manet reasoned that ones art should reflect ideas and ideals of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Caragh Thuring, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Monet, David Alan Brown, Denis Diderot, Diego Velazquez, Edouard Manet, Francisco Goya, Gilles Néret, Gustave Courbet, Jim Lane, L. Schlain, Lisa MacDonald, Manet, Marcantonio Raimondi, Paul Cezanne, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Salvador dali, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, Titian, William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Leave a comment

ORANGE LIGHT DISTRICT

Posted on September 9, 2010 by Dave

On a narrow, low lying strip of coastal country in Northern Europe, scarcely two hundred miles long, a country so water logged that enemies and rivals spoke of it as mud flat, there arose in the seventeenth century one of … Continue reading →