Tag Archives: Mallarme

BEHIND THE NONCOMMITTAL GAZE

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Dave

Who else? Who but the well bred, courteous Edouard Manet could have put before an astonished public the “female gorilla”, that “gamy courtesan” Olympia? Public and critics were for once unanimous. There could be no two ways about it: Manet … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Antonin Proust, Auguste Renoir, Berte Morisot, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Julie Lorenzen, Mallarme, Manet Olympia, Rembrandt, Stephane Mallarme, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Victorine Meurent | 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

NONE OF THE ABOVE

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Dave

”Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” Having presented the questions so handsomely, in his greatest painting, it hardly seems to matter that Paul Gauguin had none of the answers. To look for allegorical meanings … Continue reading →