Latest video
Close
Video from
say look: what’s that sound?Shake your hips
Tag Archives: Eugene Delacroix
karl marx: poet at the barricade
Karl Marx: the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… …To many of that generation “revolution” was a holy word, and the spirit of freedom appeared, as in Delacroix’s famous painting, as a beautiful bare-breasted woman … Continue reading
national brotherhood day
I’m okay. You’re not okay. At all. This idea of moral relativism is the most twisted and perverted ideal going; any stink-job piece of crap, including murder but starting at the bottom-feeding level of character assassination is permitted in the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Amir Khadir, Eugene Delacroix, Francoise David, Graeme Hamilton National Post, jean charest, Jean Charest PLQ, Jean Perrault Sherbrooke, Madonna in Quebec City, Madonna Plains of Abraham show, Mariette Fugere, Mise en Demeure group, Nima Machouf, Plan Nord Quebec, Richard Desjardins, Robert Monderie, Sebastien Aube campaign manager, Serge Cardin Parti-Quebecois, Simon Plouffe
Leave a comment
A Serious Man
Amir Khadir. I suppose, one day, if they throw shoes at him, he’ll know where they were launched from. Like a hit the dummy contest at a country tombola. Part George Galloway, part warm up act in the generic comic … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Amir Khadir, Beautifeel Shoes Israel, Benoit Dutrizac, Bill 78 Quebec, Eugene Delacroix, Francoise David, George Galloway, Green Revolution Iran, jean charest, Le Marcheur shoe store, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maryam Namazie, Nima Machouf, PAJU demonstration Chapters, PAJU Montreal based human rights group
Leave a comment
natural born killers
Open the lamp. Unleash the genie. Sometimes simple narratives don’t provide answers. Or, simply the inertia devolves into populism, trite formulas, generic thinking, or a romantic nostalgia for an idyll by-gone era that never existed and we are back to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged anders behring breivik, DDL demonstration, EDL demonstration denmark, Eugene Delacroix, Lorenzo Lotto, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, multiculturalism europe, Norwegian immigration policy, Oslo shootings, saif al-islam gaddafi
Leave a comment
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
not a recorder of the “right” sentiments
Turner was perhaps the greatest of all British artists, but there was always the question of whether his most adventurous works were evidence of mental decay. Turner was the antithesis of Charles Eastlake, the head of the Royal Academy. Eastlake … Continue reading
quiet desperation of prosaic convenience
Is it possible to reconcile the classic/romantic divide. To purge the psychological into a product of reason? Can it be avoided that aesthetic purity depends somewhat on the decadent? Well, the concept of soulmates can be pitched out so that … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged aline kominsky, Charles Baudelaire, daniel ludwig, donald b. kuspit, Eugene Delacroix, godley and Creme, Heinrich Heine, Hell Fire Club, ingrid pitt, James Gillray, Marcel Duchamp, Margaret Wente, Norman Rockwell, Robert Crumb, Sir Francis Dashwood
Leave a comment
boredom: waiting for something to happen
and so it is so Modern boredom. Deep-seated boredom. The suspension of relations with reality and its replacement mined from the depths of the netherworld splitting into variations of nothingness; a world without meaning, without autonomy and without larger connections … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged austin warren, Charles Baudelaire, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Kafka, Heinrich Heine, irving babbitt, Jean Renoir, joel-peter witkin, John Everett Millais, Lucian Freud, Marcel Proust, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Milan Kundera, Pierre Auguste Renoir, ralph greenson, Samuel Beckett, Soren Kierkegaard
Leave a comment
COMMENTS
