Tag Archives: Lucas Cranach

fundamental creation: an evolving debate

Supposedly, beliefs do have consequences. And its a long standing argument where a vindication of evolution over revelation is warranted, justified, or an outright falsehood, junk science foisted on the public. Depsite the seeming evidence of random, mutual and natural … Continue reading

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forever young: eternal trial

Eternal youth. Immortality.The eternal life sweepstakes. Is it the brainwave entertainment industry, or a periodical foray by big pharma? “EASY, RELAXING, 100% SAFE, PROVEN, GUARANTEED, BUY NOW …”Order Yours Now And Receive The Mind Power Bonus”. Well, if laboratory mice … Continue reading

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kitsch and the scandal of discovery

Maybe its about our ingrained habits of denying what we know, but don’t want to know.What could be termed disavowal. A dark, musty zone between knowing and unknowing. There is nothing sexually overt in John Currin’s paintings, an absence of … Continue reading

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dix & the creative curse: if hollywood say so its O.K.

The idea was to find an idiom that best suited him to criticize the society he found himself: essentially, a capitalist bourgeois Germany. After returning from the front, he passed through the expressionist, futurist and dada schools before settling on … Continue reading

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abberations from the ideal form

The German realist movement or broader German expressionist movement of the post WWI era that popularly characterizes Otto Dix, George Grosz and Max Beckmann, and then links them into a category of depictions of corruption and a largesse of lifestyle … Continue reading

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TROY AS MYTHOLOGICAL PLOY & APHRODITE AS TOY

”The three goddesses (Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite) asked Zeus to present the apple of discord — a beautiful gold sphere — to the one who deserved the title kallista ‘most beautiful’. I know some of the other gods were surprised … Continue reading

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THE WANDERING MYTH: IF ANYONE FINDS A LOST TROJAN

Its been about one hundred and fifty years since Schliemann discovered the site of Troy. Yet no one has found any evidence that the Greeks ever fought there. The capture of Troy and the wanderings of Odysseus have had an … Continue reading

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FAUST IN THE HAUS

MEPHIST. Now, Faustus, what wouldst thou have me do? FAUSTUS. I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live, To do whatever Faustus shall command, Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere, Or the ocean to overwhelm … Continue reading

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SHARPEN YOUR KNIFE & SOFTEN YOUR TONGUE

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s final novel was the ”The Marble Faun” and was inspired and strung together from his notebook that he kept in Rome. The intensity of the subject matter and its interplay between the Jewish and Christian themes within a … Continue reading

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A GOOD SIN TO SOFTEN YOU

In the Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare,the Christians of the play universally assume that they’re a nobler species than Jews, but Shylock insists that they’re no more pure than Jews and Jews no less human than Christians.Purity and humanity being … Continue reading

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