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Tag Archives: E.H. Gombrich
memling: pious little pictures
The painting of A Lady with a Pink hangs in New York’s Metropolitan Museum. The pink, a flower that can symbolize betrothal, was the creation of Hans Memling whose realistic, but highly refined portraits mirrored fifteenth century Flemish society. Hans … Continue reading
venus rising: and no boyfriend in sight
She was the perfect beauty. Beloved of prince and painter, Simonetta Vespucci was the Renaissance ideal. … The visage of a ravishing, young woman appears again and again in the art of Sandro Botticelli, Early Italian Renaissance painter. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Botticelli, Brenda Harness, Claudio Angelini, David Bellingham, Donatello, Donatello Sculpture, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Felipe Fernandez-Arnesto, Ghirlandaio, Guiliano de' Medici, Lorenzo Medici, Marco de Marinis, Michelangelo, Piero di Cosimo, Sharon Fermor, Simonetta Vespucci, Vasari, Venus and Aphrodite
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heretics and art: unorthodox conceptions
We seem to be living in the age of the heretic. The orthodox Church of heresy.Is the new heresy to accept that there are many rules? Is it a heresy to swim with the tide? Are those “rebels” really actually … Continue reading
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Tagged Certosa di Pavia, Chris Burden, E.H. Gombrich, Edmund Gurney, Edward Gibbon, Eleanor Heartney, Erasmus, Gale Iain, joel-peter witkin, John Vicar, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Peter Paul Rubens, Protestant Reformation, Puritan England, seth godin
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Every picture forgets a story
Canada is not exactly the natural habitat of Caravaggio. Y’know, the beaver, the elk, fur pelts and lumberjacks. But it is July and he doesn’t have to compete with men on blades stopping pucks with their chin… Caravaggio is considered … Continue reading
self hatred: caging the instinct into decoration
Get Back. Get back to where you once belonged. Can art exist if it falls off the precipice into a void where there is no transformational effect on the individual and little or nothing to do with what constitutes the … Continue reading
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Tagged amedeo modigliani, Clement Greenberg, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, jeffrey meyers, meryle secrest, Michel Foucault, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, rachael hayward, Simon Schama, steven fine
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uffizi: arcadia cash n’ carry
Zoffany, in the 1760’s was commissioned by Queen Charlotte to created a canvas that would immortalize the Uffizi, Florence’s major museum, and in particular the Renaissance treasures of the Medici collection. The visit to the Uffizi was a major goal … Continue reading
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Tagged E.H. Gombrich, Frank Zappa, Jann Haworth, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johan Zoffany, Laura Mulvey, Michael Cooper, Robert Fraser, sir peter blake, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Walter Benjamin, Walter Pater
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bliss is golden: balancing act of invisible glory
A is to B as B is to C. See? But, seeing is not always believing.How does one mediate opposites which appear contradictory and hostile to one another? Jung suggested a transcendent function which is a combination of conscious and … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Botticelli, Carl Jung, De Stijl, E.H. Gombrich, Friedrich Nietzsche, Leonardo Da Vinci, luca pacioli, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, roberto assagioli, Sandro Botticelli, Sigmund Freud, the golden mean, The Golden Ratio, Theo Van Doesburg
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looking for the punch line
There is always the question in art of private meaning within public purposes, a kind of personal humor characterized by a kind of sharing between joke and dream. As E.H. Gombrich asserted, there is always an underlying code that serves … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Koestler, Diego Rivera, E.H. Gombrich, harold rugg, Jean Antoine Watteau, Leonardo Da Vinci, max sterner, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, Rainer Maria Rilke, Sigmund Freud, Watteau
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the wanderer: Haywain and a harvest of pessimism
Another of Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych’s, called The Hay-Wain is almost as complex as The Garden of Earthly Delights and carries a similar message of desperate pessimism; a message that delivers itself into the arms of darkness and madness. On the … Continue reading
bosch: love as an involuntary movement
How mad can mad be? Is deep pessimism a form of madness? Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled and mystified, even perplexed viewers the way Hieoronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights has. Six hundred years … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alan Bass, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, E.H. Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Hieronymous Bosch, Laurinda Dixon, Ram Dass, Sigmund Freud, Simone Weil, Umberto Eco, Wilhelm Fraenger, XTC, XTC Andy Partridge
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