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picasso: life as phases
Picasso was always, like a playwright, constantly “in dialogue” with his audience, ever needing the audience, sensing it and feeling it out like a lover pursuing the object of his affections. He was, in many ways, a metteur en scene, … Continue reading
periods and public
The Picasso industry. From 1895 to 1944 alone there were a total of 6,751 works of which half were drawings.By the early 1960’s when he was still churning out pieces, there was an additional three to four thousand plus over … Continue reading
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Tagged Clement Greenberg, Henri Matisse, King Philip II Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pablo Picasso, Paul Rosenberg art dealer, Paul Rosenberg Picasso, picasso blue period, Picasso Circus period, Picasso Pink Period, Titian
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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
the collector: “our Hermann”
Or so he was called by the die-hards. Hermann Goering functioned as a leading symbol of all the perversity modernity could bring to bear and a living 3-D demonstration of the power of instrumental reason over our lives. The Nuremberg … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged douglas m. kelley, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Goering, goering art collection, Hannah Arendt, hans makart, Henri Matisse, hermann goering, John Frankenheimer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, lynn h. nicholas, nancy yeide, nazi looted art, paris dealer paul rosenberg, Peter Paul Rubens, robert edsel, The Train 1964, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin
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new vision of visions: the inner need
What is meant by spiritual experience? Not evident in the era of post-modernism, Chris Hitchens, and the dubious pursuit of art as a spiritual experience. Still, there is a necessity to avoid standardization and leave an artistic scar so to … Continue reading
getting no satisfaction: a hollow world going wrong
Desire and Disillusion. That technical progress with its transformational capacity could finish by alienating the individual giving rise to consumerism fueled by invidious comparison and a spirit of competition which would appropriate Darwininian contexts to establish political, social and hegemonic … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl von Clausewitz, charles hinton, Clement Greenberg, D.W. Winnicott, darwinism, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Henri Matisse, john dewey, joseph heath, Karl Marx, Martin Buber, Michel Foucault, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, picasso blue period, richard kazis, Sigmund Freud, Thorstein Veblen, Wassily Kandinsky
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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
surreal values: spiritually adrift in the value traps
In spite of recounting at length her zealotry for “trash” and “kitsch,” which she famously claimed to prefer over serious minded films, Seligman never calls Kael to task for disingenuously backing away from her clarion call of the 1960s. “When … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Clement Greenberg, Diego Rivera, Douglas Cooper, Harold Rosenberg, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Lawrence Alloway, Mark Tobey, max kozloff, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Pauline Kael, Philip Coppens, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky
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