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the have-nots : not dark yet
Not sure the validity of all the figures here; as Jack Welch pointed out in the government job figures, there is always some jigging and jiving that can be teased out of the data; manipulation of numbers is a combination … Continue reading
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a gendered gaze
Exactly how many pieces of art are in the Louvre is not clear. At the most extreme is the assertion that there are 300,000 paintings and a minimum of 5,000 and the total pieces of art ranging from 35,000 to … Continue reading
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plasticity and re-mix
Plasticity a term from Sergei Eisenstein that referred to the fluidity and creative potential of animation that extended more profoundly than mere visual surface. It is the conflict of images in a montage of attraction in which the plasticity generates … Continue reading
distortion: good from far but far from good
Distortion and fragmentation are the cliches, now almost generic that has come to dominate understanding of the modern figure at a mass level. Maybe it conveys the “creative destruction” of capitalism in its natural habitat? But, do any technical explanations … Continue reading
when a meme used to meme something
Society of the Spectacle? Is this a reflection of the post-modern in its unwashed morning glory psychosis as the state of society? Pop art values of the sensational, at least socially, and an emotional hollowness part of capitalism’s ingenuity to … Continue reading
shrink to fit : the matrix of 1000 true fanatics
Digital commerce and the selling of art and cultural products via the web, is a final stage in a long process of transition to code creating from image creating. The idea of creativity as code, art based on code instead … Continue reading
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in the pink
When Henri Matisse painted the Pink Blouse in 1924, he was a successfully established artist living in comfort in Nice. Some twenty years earlier, at another Mediterranean seaport, he had to struggle to shape his own distinctive style. It was … Continue reading
poussin: showing your peasant
As Mondrian himself and many others have proved, mathematical perfection has a finality which is often fatal to art. That was a danger that threatened Nicolas Poussin. What saved him was the reappearance, around 1650, of a side of his … Continue reading
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