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Tag Archives: Lucian Freud
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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Gerhard Richter, john currin, John Haber, kim levin, Lucas Cranach, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Norman Rockwell, rachel feinstein, Robert Hughes, Roy Lichtenstein
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freudian slide into nihilism
Maybe the problem is a mimicry of art historical forms without connecting to the poetic myths that animated and gave life to these forms. That is, the aura of the profound is a falsification in that the depth of the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Auguste Rodin, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Rivera, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Jacob Epstein, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kitty garman, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Sigmund Freud, Sir Kenneth Clark, spruiell, Vincent Van Gogh, william grimes
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