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the deaf man’s house: paint it black
Somehow with Francisco Goya, we never quite ask why a man whose friends in maturity were among the most enlightened thinkers and the most devoted moralists of the age of reason; a man who, we have kept telling ourselves, shared … Continue reading
revolutionary for reason: consciousness of a tragic humanity
Horror. The world one usually associates with the work of Goya. Even in his brilliant early years as a court painter, an air of evil hung suspiciously in the background of his rococo paintings. Then, after his illness, they lept … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, Dante Alighieri, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, goya Black paintings, Goya's Ghosts, Kenneth Clark, Michel Serres, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, Theophile Gautier
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ABSTRACT PLEASURE, DEEP ROOTED EXPRESSIONISM
Surrealism remained a powerful element in bohemian art and culture long after it had lost its novelty, shine and new car smell. It remained an attractive option for leftist artists and writers who were ill at ease with the post-Trotsky … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Action painting, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Charles Dickens, Courbet, D.H. Lawrence, Dali, Dominick LaCapra, Freud, Goya, goya Black paintings, Guardian Co. UK, Harold Rosenburg, Jackson Pollock, Joseph Conrad, Jung, Magritte, Mark Rothko, Richard Hughes, Robert Hughes, Robert Motherwell, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Virginia Woolf, willem de Kooning
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