Tag Archives: Jackson Pollock

where are the box cutters?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Dave

…Staring dumbly through the glass. At a base level, it is amoral, as interested in invoking destruction as in positing creation. There he is, in a glass cage, dreaming of the supernormal solution and giving off the vibe of misery, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Adolf Eichmann, Bernard Malamud, Franz Kafka, Jackson Pollock, Jewish Museum Berlin, Leonard Fein, Tilda Swinton, Tina Luedecke | Leave a comment

iggy: genius of action. raw action

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: one of the things i love so much about iggy is that astonishing mind of his. i’m not saying he’s an intellectual genius (although he actually seems to be in interviews). or that his mind is broken … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged art chantry, Arthur Rimbaud, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, The Stooges Raw Power, the velvet underground | Leave a comment

jarring sales hustle and aesthetic goals

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Dave

“Art in the native American mind enjoys the dubious importance attached to the devil in the medieval mind” – Alexander Harvey The artistic imagination enters only rather furtively into economic life. Artistic truth is still revealed not by the artist … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexander Harvey, amien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Arnold Hauser, Dean Valentine, Don and Mira Rubel, Donald Kuspit, Henry Ford art collection, Jackson Pollock, joseph duveen, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko, Mira Rubel, Mugrabi art collection, Norman Rockwell, Robert Hughes, Van Gogh Arles | Leave a comment

fear of hardship: price of precarity

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Dave

Starving artist syndrome. Or superior creation under the wing of economic security. …. One can bring the matter between aesthetics and economics within the scope of a single hypothesis. It is that pecuniary motivation- roughly, the desire for money income- … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alfred Marshall, Arnold Hauser, Arthur Schopenhauer, benjamin disraeli, David Geffen art collection, Jackson Pollock, Jan Steen, john singleton copley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meindert Hobbema, Norman Rockwell, Steven A. Cohen, willem de Kooning | Leave a comment

visceral forms: “what’s inside a girl”

Posted on June 24, 2012 by Dave

The persistence of the nude. We have had more or less traditional treatment since Marcel Duchamp, followed by Picasso and abstract expressionism rendered her to the scrapheap of history. Lo and behold, she could not be avoided for long. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Charles Baudelaire, D.H. Lawrence, Friedrich Schiller, Jackson Pollock, John Koch, Lennart Anderson, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Paul Delvaux, Shiller Institute | Leave a comment

nude awakenings

Posted on June 23, 2012 by Dave

Quarrels, separation, arguments, spats, plenty of yelling and screaming, sobbing and tears. The male artist and the nude has, as defined by modernism and then post-modernism, a contrapuntal relationship for the most part; the discordant seeking to resolve issues in … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Anders Zorn, barnett newman, Claude Monet, David Park art, Elmer Bischoff, Francesco Bonami, hermann broch, Jackson Pollock, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucian Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Maurizio Cattelan, richard diebenkorn, Vanessa Beecroft, Wilhelm Worringer | Leave a comment

eccentric patrons

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Dave

By October 1942, Peggy Guggenheim was ready to open in New York a new gallery, Art of This Century, surely the most eccentric pleasure dome ever decreed for the inspection of art. Lights flashed on and off, with great rushes … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alexander Calder, Anton Gill, Edward Hopper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glynis Bell, Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Rothko, Mary V. Dearborn, Max Ernst, Museum of Non-Objective Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Robert Motherwell, Solomon Guggenheim, Thomas Hart Benton | Leave a comment

self made fan: not so crazy guggenheims

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Dave

According to legend, on a certain Sabbath eve Meyer Guggenheim, patriarch of the family that was to become so rich and heavy laden, summoned his seven sons into his study, one by one. To each in turn he showed seven … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barbara Guggenheim, Branch Rickey, Buddenbrooks syndrome, Debi Unger, Francis Morrone, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Meyer Guggenheim, Peggy Guggenheim, Roger Straus Sr., Thomas Mann, Thomas Sully | Leave a comment

Accidental art: relationships with the dice

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Dave

It was a time of accidental art. Where artists let sheer happenstance paint their pictures or a throw of the dice shape their music; a deliberate effort it seemed, to avoid making decisions. An art of escape and procrastination. … … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Georges Mathieu painting, Jackson Pollock, John Cage, Lewis Carroll, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Stockhausen, Yves Klein | Leave a comment

wright time wrong place: buy the cow

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Dave

Frank Lloyd Wright was a foe of the academicians in his youth. He later grew to disdain painting and sculpture generally and to see architecture as the only art. The end result of all this was the Guggenheim Museum. A … Continue reading →