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Tag Archives: Francisco Goya
cats cradle: fatal feline attraction
Thorstein Veblen, as the previous post indicated, had little love for pets. Pets to him, represented the power of symbolism, the purchasing of things that people can’t use, and are wasteful, yet are endowed with a measure of status. In … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged attraction to cats, Francisco Goya, George Stubbs, Henry Ford, Henry Ford Fordism, jaroslav flegr, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Pablo Picasso, Thorstein Veblen
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imagination: leaving the gray elysium
An ambivalence to life reflected nowhere more so than the child’s relationship to memory, at once complete, graphic and epic yet vague, blurry and unfinished. And why not, given the facility to escape, to flee at one’s leisure the fairytale … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Ernst Bloch, Francisco Goya, Goethe color theory, Jacob Boehme, Jan Steen, jean paul writer, johann ludwig tieck, Michel Foucault, philipp otto runge, phillip otto runge, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Reich, Winslow Homer
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finding their way back to the new-old world
At some point the sublimity of spirituality becomes corrupted, infected and toxified with religious hallucinations embedded with supersitition and fantastic images from the recesses of the mind. An addiction to the subjective roots of ostensibly objective problems. James Ensor could … Continue reading
ragged glory
The first impression is of some weekend painter with a crude, vulgar, unskilled hand depicting mercenary goons, violence, power, subjugation, and a whole stock of themes from the politically correct almanac. Once that prejudice falls away there is something quite … Continue reading
prodigal children aware of time
To trust, to put faith into the emotional life. To unencumber oneself of the layers of reason and logic, the common sense of classicism that had dominated art to that point. Romantic visions, but with a classical foundation. It added … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, benoit agnes trioson, Diego Velazquez, Francisco Goya, Girodet, Jacques-Louis David, las meninas velazquez, Michel Foucault, sylvain bellenger, Theodore Gericault
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nativity and counting: brand new day
In the modern era, the all too human tends to be repressed. But back then, in 1566 it was a time of ingrained, seemingly genetic aggression, envy, hatred and wanton destruction. Perhaps not that dissimilar after all. Bruegel’s Census in … Continue reading
corpse poetics
Working with death as an aesthetic. Is it purely the shocking or a continuation of the gothic and the more macabre elements of romanticism, in the tracks of Henry Fuseli passing through Goya’s horrors of war, Kafka hybrid-human creatures and … Continue reading
collapsing the geometric order
The search for emotional impact. Classicism and romanticism are only tenuously compatible. Like Cain and Abel, its a contrapuntal piece of music, that if played often enough, like Glenn Gould with Bach, can create some some odd exposures to the … Continue reading
when the abyss stares back
You have to question one of the basic axioms of Western life, a foundational myth of the enlightenment that “civilized” society values human life. That a life is precious. Sanctified. Or rather, an eye for an eye. A tooth for … Continue reading
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Tagged a.j. heschel, Al Sharpton, Albert Camus, artemisia Gentileschi, B.F. Skinner, Ben Shahn, ben shahn the passion of sacco and vanzetti, d. elton trueblood, eli cohen spy, Francisco Goya, goya the third of may, john c. woods, john f. mortimer, rick perry texas, robert e. conot, tom sachs artist, troy davis execution, victor hugo capital punishment, victor hugo death penalty
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circumstantial angels
It was the art of circumstantial speech. Mixed with the art of underestimation, with some irritating asides thrown in for good measure. Well, Peter Falk did act funny. This uncanny ability to start talking in one direction and going off … Continue reading