Tag Archives: Jan van Eyck

spirits having flown: another gray morning

Posted on October 26, 2011 by Dave

What is meant by the spiritual in art is not self-evident; its been lost in translation, like finding the code to understanding Van Eyck’s Ghent altarpiece, its becoming extinct as a graspable part of the lexicon and daily interchange. The … Continue reading →

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book of hours of the times

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Dave

He can be seen both as climactic figure of the Middle Ages and as a herald of the Renaissance. The first great realist in French art, he painted with magical perfection in a time of change and disarray. In his … Continue reading →

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hail mary: the secret language of words

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Dave

Very contrary about this Mary story. Religion, refugees claimants and hipsters. the congregation is convened. Was there a second sitting for the Last Supper? Can Albrecht Durer’s Virgin and Child with Saint Anne be termed “religious trivia” within the context … Continue reading →

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flight of the earthly delights: path to the bonfire

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Dave

Life in the central panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s greatest painting, often called The Garden of Earthly Delights, is unencumbered by conscience, clothing, or cognizance of any higher goal than pleasure. There has been no more enigmatic painter than Bosch, with … Continue reading →

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the one after 193

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Dave

Not something from the back of a cereal box. A real country. Or some neutered and coiffed Bantustan experiment with nifty uniforms and fan-far parades. Real borders and a real economy. Or a box within a box and the welfare … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Amy Goodman, artemisia Gentileschi, barack obama israel, cornel west, denis goldberg, Herman Melville, Jan van Eyck, jan van eyck ghent altarpiece, mahmoud abbas, meir margailt, Naomi Klein, Nicolas Poussin, noah j. efron, Noam Chomsky, palestinian statehood, Paul Klee, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rembrandt, ronit lentin, yakov m. rabkin | Leave a comment

walking the dog from right to left: seeing the in-between

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Dave

Does dog really exist? Has anyone ever gone mad not being able to think of something to think about?…There is something much deeper in operation here than a simple, albeit innovative mastery of logic and mathematical reasoning. These are verbal … Continue reading →

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too many dicks: aye eyck

Posted on September 13, 2011 by Dave

Most academic interpretations build upon an existing structure of debate.It could be called the common-law approach to artistic jurisprudence.It is based on the idea that future interpretations of various phenomena will be like the past, except more so. Once case … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged arnolfini marriage portrait, Clement Greenberg, Edward Hopper, elizabeth abbott, Erwin Panofsky, Franz Kafka, ian verstegen, Jan van Eyck, John Haber Art, Jonathan McIntosh, Linda Nochlin, Linda Seidel, Martin Buber, Meyer Schapiro, susan fromberg schaeffer | Leave a comment

the poussin code

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Dave

Giza pyramid pentagrams and sacred geometry, golden means and a whole shebang of inscrutability. Nicolas Poussin has always been linked with the mystery of Rennes de Chateau and his work is crucial to the theory found in Holy Blood Holy … Continue reading →

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tony award

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Dave

Is painting like acting? According to Christopher Knight there is a strong demand for celebrity art. The idea of modern art lacking aesthetic content and that content being contrived to create a phantom depth does have a connection with acting. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged annie leibovitz, arnolfini marriage portrait, christopher knight, david ng, gwen davis, Jan van Eyck, Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, tony curtis art, Vincent Van Gogh | Leave a comment

it will all end without having been completed

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Art

Merleau Ponty: We are fascinated by the classical idea of intellectual, adequation that partly mute “thought” sometimes leaves us with the impression of a significant swirl of significations, a paralyzed, miscarried utterance….What, then, is the secret science which he has … Continue reading →