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Tag Archives: Frans Hals
benghazi: boxes of rain
The road to 10,000 armed soldiers begins with a single step; a mere budgetary line charge and adjustment, a few supply planes and a small dedicated group of fighters who have to be nurtured through the embryonic stage to be … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged American Special Operations Forces, American Special Operations Forces Libya, Christopher Stevens ambassador, David Frum, Edward Said, European Union Nobel Prize, Frans Hals, Frederic Wehrey, gene sharp, Hieronymous Bosch, Hilary Clinton Libya, robert fisk
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flowers in the dirt poor
Economic bubbles are nothing new. It seems that any unchecked enthusiasm in life in whatever sphere eventually gets pulled down by gravity. The bubble, almost universally seems to be maintained by ignoring our own private information and being guided by … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bernard Madoff, Dutch Tulip Bubble, Frans Hals, hendrik gerritsz, hendrik gerritsz pot, jan bruegel, jan brueghel the elder, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Matt Taibbi, michael lewis vanity fair, sub-prime mortgage crisis
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smuggle the uncomfortable
“The contradictory works of storied illustrator Norman Rockwell resonate in an age of anxiety”, or so the article began. Well enough anyway. But downhill from there. There is a process of historical revisionism underway that seeks to place Rockwell solidly … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Clement Greenberg, Cornelius Krieghoff, dave hickey, Edward Hopper, Ernest Hemingway, Frans Hals, Honore Daumier, James McNeil Whistler, James McNeill Whistler, Kate taylor, kate taylor globe and mail, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Norman Rockwell, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek
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the saturday evening you’re toast
Is disavowal repressing something unbearable, or at least sublimating it something more palatable and socially acceptable? What often arises is the concept of innocence, a byproduct of this process of disavowal and reluctance to own up and acknowledge what one … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alice Miller, Boris Cyrulnik, da Vinci London Cartoon, Frans Hals, Friedrich Nietzsche, Heinz Kohut, Jacques Derrida, Jean Paul Sartre, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, Michel Foucault, Norman Rockwell, sarah kofman, Sigmund Freud
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coloring outside lines lived
An ambivalence about life. A detachment, clean and without guilt that defies the romantic notion concerning childhood innocence. It is a profane illumination of sorts, to live without sentimental condescension or routine exercises in nostalgia yet without the myriad and … Continue reading
paradox: soul on ice and fire
Rembrandt’s vagabond prints were studies of despair and wretchedness far removed from say, the Frans Hals norm of guileful, droll figures within the tradition of moral satire that reaffirmed popular images of the bottom of the social rung. Rembrandt, though, … Continue reading
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Tagged bosch prodigal son, cornel west, Frans Hals, gary schwartz, Hieronymous Bosch, Martin Buber, mitch snyder, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, rembrandt return of the prodigal son, rembrandt the jewish bride, Sandro Botticelli
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kicking the can down the road: again
There is no doubt that poverty is degrading, and through force, legislation, moral suasion,manipulation, blackmail, soft euthanasia, and “gaming” democracy and elementary social responsibility we have gloriously succeeded in creating the scenario for economic collapse and social and political insurrection. … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Goodman, Bobby Seale, Camp Forest tent city, cornel west, Emile Durkheim, erskine nichol painter, erskine nicol painter, Ford Madox Ford, Frans Hals, frederick walker paintings, george elgar hicks, harry belafonte, Jeremy Paxman, John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad, Luke Fildes, Martin Luther King, Rabbi Joshua Abraham Heschel, sir samuel luke fildes, Stephen Colbert, tavis smiley, ted sanderson, the Heritage Foundation, tim geithner, war on poverty
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freudian slide into nihilism
Maybe the problem is a mimicry of art historical forms without connecting to the poetic myths that animated and gave life to these forms. That is, the aura of the profound is a falsification in that the depth of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Auguste Rodin, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Rivera, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Jacob Epstein, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kitty garman, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Sigmund Freud, Sir Kenneth Clark, spruiell, Vincent Van Gogh, william grimes
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artfully preserved
The paintings may appear a bit superficial, an air of being quickly rendered and spontaneous, like Bob Ross “deep” , but they were painstakingly and deliberately wrought … Franz Hals is at the Met and the seventeenth-century Dutch master has … Continue reading
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Tagged Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Frans Hals, James McNeill Whistler, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Singer Sargent, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Norman Rockwell, Rembrandt, ROberta Smith New York Times, seymour slive, Vincent Van Gogh, walter liedtke
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