Tag Archives: Gustav Klimt

fill the void: the voidoid zone

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Dave

Just another week in the Middle East. The U.S. is now hedging its bets on the Syrian Free Army, simply a little too wily and wooly and seem to be looking for strategic alternatives by splitting hairs between classifying moderate … Continue reading →

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muse and the economy

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Dave

Or is it the economy and the muse? When individuals are fighting tooth and nail for a living, they look on the arts as a thing apart. Has our affluent society today carried over some of this disdain into a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhl business art, Andy Warhol, Arnold Hauser, Bob Diamond Barclays, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, David Geffen art collection, Donald and Mera Rubells, Donald Kuspit, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Gustav Klimt, Hobbema, Jan Steen, jeffrey deitch, Jerry Saltz, john singleton copley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Meyer Schapiro, Peter Plagens, Steven A. Cohen, Timothy Geithner, Van Goyen painter, willem de Kooning, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

money matter: paint by big $ numbers

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Dave

Are people buying the work for its aesthetic qualities or are they buying the brand. The artist as brand. Although Artur Koestler said buying a reproduction is the same as owning the outright original. Its Cultural economics where the market … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged adele bloch-bauer, Alberto Giacometti, alfred lessing, Arthur Koestler, daniel boorstin, Gustav Klimt, Jackson Pollock, Lucian Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Thorstein Veblen, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

down the amazon: art jungle

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Dave

Aesthetics is a very complex issue. But is insolubly linked to economics, taste and design. More profoundly, are aesthetic considerations merely another marker, another sign of decadence. Donald Kuspit’s controversial article on the art market several years ago , written … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged alfred lessing, Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, Arthur Koestler, Caravaggio, David Geffen, Donald Kuspit, Edward Hopper, Eric Fischl, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Francis Bacon, Grandma Moses, Gustav Klimt, henri eugene le sidaner, jeffrey deitch, martin gough, Meyer Schapiro, Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, paul raffaele, Thorstein Veblen, timothy binkley, Warren Buffett | 1 Comment

screen test: tea ceremony in kyoto

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Dave

scoOne of the central pieces in what could be termed Japanese Renaissance art, are two six-panel folding Japanese screens whose images merge together to form an aerial view of the city of Kyoto in the sixteenth- century. The technique, which … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged art of the samurai, avery brundage collection, edo period, edo period japan, Gustav Klimt, honda tadakatsu, japan momoyama period, kozu kobunka museum kyoto, kyoto art history, kyoto history, morikami museum, Pieter Brueghel, scott eyman, toyotomi hideyoshi | Leave a comment

VIENNA & MISGUIDED GENIUS: Ambiguous Dreams and Joyful Apocalypse

Posted on November 2, 2010 by Dave

Although scholars agreed that Vienna was not the only place where Modernism achieved sweeping successes, it was still common practice to regard “Vienna as the focal point of European Modernism” . Scholars consider that European Modernism reached its purest and most concentrated expression in Vienna … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Schnitzler, Bruno Walter, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Egon Schiele, Elfriede Jelinek, Franz Kafka, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, H.L. Mencken, Hermann Bahr, Hermann Kurzke, Mahler, Max Nordau, Nina Hagen, Oskar Kokoschka, Otto Weininger, Peter Altenberg, Rudolf Steiner, Sigmund Freud, The Good Soldier Schweik, Thomas Mann | Leave a comment

GOODNIGHT VIENNA: Vagabonds Exiled to a Dark Void

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Dave

Early twentieth-century Viennese modernity, obsessed with identity in crisis, was especially preoccupied with the play between external appearances and internal dimensions of the self. How could it not? No doubt, all roads eventually lead to Freud as part of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Adolf Loos, Alfred Kubin, Alma Mahler, Angela Dilkey, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Egon Schiele, Emil Brix, Ernst Gombrich, Georges Braque, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Karl Popper, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Robert S. Wistrich | Leave a comment

AUTUMN OF IMPERIAL VIENNA: Illusions Haunted by the Shadow of Death

Posted on October 31, 2010 by Dave

When Adolf Hitler left provincial Linz in late adolescence there was only one place to go: Habsburg Vienna, the great imperial city, home to a veritable Babylon of peoples, the ineffable seat of an ancient empire. But the crowded streets … Continue reading →