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Tag Archives: Edouard Manet
Cuddly Critters
Its almost unpardonable in its sentimentality. Almost a crime to get sucked into the trite, obvious and even vulgar. But then painting is merchandise. There was a long period where hack, formula art was considered a patriotic defense of the … Continue reading
mean memes
Not crazy about Stephen Harper. Plodding, industrial age mentality that will pay the piper if the commodities rally, if and when collapses. Though to be fair, conservatism in Canada is equivalent to Obama; the same budget busting and expansive approach … Continue reading
hold your nose: flushing into a non-existant past
Excerpts from a brilliant article exposing the underside of what Adorno called the “cultural industries” and what Kuspit refers to as art as part of the industrial entertainment complex so drowned and subsumed by money values there is strictly form … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged ben vautier, Bertrand Russell, christopher caudwell, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Edouard Manet, gilbert and george, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Mike Kelley, Pablo Picasso, paul mccarthy art, Piero Manzoni, Theodor Adorno
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a little piece of heaven?
Prostrate anxiety? the thingamagig complex. Objectifying the human body as part of splitting off the corporeal from the spiritual and convicting poor Eros of demon status, branding her forever with the unfavorable P.R. she has had to endure. The short … Continue reading
visiting the ladies
What seems real is in fact an illusion created by one’s own desire. It was a perceptive insight, one that would go onto helping define the modern age, the mediation of our lives by images, our relationship with consumerism and … Continue reading
madame x : plantation to paris
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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged a.hyatt mayer, Arthur Rimbaud, charles merrill mount, david mccullough, Diego Velazquez, Edouard Manet, Henry James, horace gregory, isabella stewart gardner, jack gardner, John Singer Sargent, louis de fourcaud, Paul Klee, sir osbert sitwell, stanley olson, Walter Benjamin
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double up indemnity
On the book accounting or off-book? The story of the German insurance company orgy for top salesmen has been around since May, but continues to generate interest, if only because the practice, in more subtle form, appears fairly widespread. Also, … Continue reading
those furry little fellas
As we conclude 2011, the story of the lemmings can serve as a cautionary tale… Fit for a cliff. Are you a lemming? Blindly, intoxicated with the herd mentality of following the lead of the crowd over the cliff. An … Continue reading