Tag Archives: Kasimir Malevich

no alternative to the empty

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Dave

The assimilation of art into cold, hard cash, ripping out its character, heart and guts and exploiting the aura of glamour around it. Its high end commercial art. prostitution. Such a gloomy world when the individual is a commodity. People … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Angelina Jolie, boris lurie, Brad Pitt, Donald Kuspit, Guy Debord, Kasimir Malevich, Marilyn Monroe, Max Horkheimer, Pauline Kael, Wassily Kandinsky, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, anselm kiefer, Billy Wilder, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, Franz Marc, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gerhard Richter, Harold Bloom, Hilton Kramer, jacques barzum, Jan van Eyck, Joseph Beuys, Kasimir Malevich, Marcel Duchamp, Marilyn Monroe, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

ECSTASY OF GEOMETRY: READING BETWEEN THE LINES

Posted on August 18, 2010 by Dave

What was the nature of the quest that moved the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) to abandon the representation of nature in favor of an art of pure abstraction? What, exactly, did Mondrian believe that he had achieved? In any … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Aaron S. Esman, Alexander Calder, Amelia Jones, Aniela Jaffe, Blavatsky, Brancusi, Charcot, Daniel H. Caldwell, David Sylvester, Dee Reynolds, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Dr. Steven Zucker, Elizabeth Truswell, Fred Jameson, Gary Kennard, Hans J. Kleinschmidt, hans L.C. Jaffa, Harry Cooper, Helene Petrovna Blavatsky, J.J. Sweeney, James W. Hamilton, Justin Wintle, K. Paul Johnson, Kasimir Malevich, Ken Gewertz, Lee Penn, M.H.J Schoenmaekers, Mallarme, Meyer Schapiro, Mick Haggerty, Neil A. Dodgson, Nelly Van Doesburg, Parker Tyler, Phyllis Greenacre, Piet Mondrian, R.E. Kantor, Robert Hughes, Ron Spronk, Rudolf Steiner, Stephen Hicks, Stephen R.C. Hicks, Theo Van Doesburg, Truswell, Virginia Hanson, Wallace Stevens, Wassily Kandinsky, willem de Kooning, Yves-Alain Bois | 2 Comments

CÉZANNE:ABOLISHING THE TYRANNY OF LINEAR PERSPECTIVE…. FOREVER

Posted on August 13, 2010 by Dave

Catagorizing the style of Paul Cézanne’s( 1839-1906 ) artwork is problematic. As a young man he left his home in Provence in the south of France in order to join with the avant-garde in Paris. He fell in with the … Continue reading →