Tag Archives: Man Ray

revolutionary bluff: pseudo event and image object

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Dave

It began with Marcel Duchamp. From there it was down the slippery slope to the avant-gardizing and idealizing of the commodity as a form of esthetic entertainment. The inevitable evolution of market economics to recycle the commodity into various conceptual … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alexander Caldwell BMW, Alfred Stieglitz, Clement Greenberg, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, paul mccarthy, Piet Mondrian Nike shoes, Roy Lichtenstein | Leave a comment

picasso comet

Posted on March 28, 2012 by Dave

The effect of the rise of esteem in the earlier periods of Picasso automatically put a grip on the reception of the later ones as they came off the easel. Since the end of WWII every freshly painted Picasso was … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged amedeo modigliani, Clement Greenberg, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Francisco Goya, Ilya Repin, Jackson Pollock, Jonathan Richman, jonathan richman pablo picasso, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Man Ray, Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, Picasso Analyst Cubist period, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Valentine Dedensing, William Blake | Leave a comment

the wall street scuffle

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Dave

The man approached the teller and proceeded to undertake his deposit, transfer money to his line of credit and ended his sequence by a request to order cheques, a package of fifty would suffice, but a greater quantity if less … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alfred Stieglitz, dodd-frank, Donald Kuspit, douglas gorsline, elliott barowitz, francis p. nauman, Frans Hals, hendrik gerritsz pot, Hieronymous Bosch, Jean Doucet, Jean Genet, John Heartfield, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, philippe bruno, quentin metsys, rudolf herz, The Merchant of Venice, Walter Arensberg | Leave a comment

languid luxury: the quicksand complex

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Dave

Inertia as the root of evil. Is it the same as laziness? What to make of leisure present in the ideologized function of art where an aesthetic of laziness seems connected to the notion of conspicuous consumption, comparative preferences and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andre Breton, art of laziness, dr. peter axt, frank stella, Georges Bataille, Georgia O'keefe, Gilles Deleuze, joy of laziness, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Slavoj Zizek, sophy laughing | Leave a comment

artistic terror : conceptual cowardice?

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Dave

Is Marcel Duchamp a terrorist? In a figurative sense, a weapon of mass destruction. The super-bomb/dirty bomb alchemical chain reaction where crap is turned into monetary gold. Clearly, with the ready-made, there was an initial anti-hierarchical space of thought, something … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Potter, Arthur Koestler, Edouard Manet, Edward Bernays, elliott barowitz, francis p. nauman, Heinrich Hoffmann, Joseph Beuys, joseph heath rebel sell, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, mark sagof, martin gough, norman kleeblatt, Pablo Picasso, renato poggioli, robert graham sculpture, rudolf herz, sidney janis, stephen foster, thomas frank the baffler, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

cold off the press: money as a readymade

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Dave

Its smooth. Its stretchy. Its waterproof. But is it a sex toy? It’s a Canadian thing. The days are short, its cold, but underneath the ice and wind, radical, intense passions refuse to be constrained by nature. We have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged canada new $100 bills, canadian plastic money, duchamp cheque bruno, duchamp cheque tzanck, francis m. naumann, francis p. nauman, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, michael lewis vanity fair, Olav Velthuis, Peter Burger | Leave a comment

ready made for action

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Dave

An animal expression in intellectual disguise? An artistic terrorist? An ambassador to the reproductive qualities of art? A parody of art in which the object is a symbol, an interpretation of a subject. Anti-art. What, exactly, are the ideas that … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Dadaism, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Jackson Pollock, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, margaret bourke-white, rudolf herz | Leave a comment

Miro and the Tears of A clown: Harlequin Carnival

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Dave

“Painting or poetry is made as we make love,” said Joan Miro. His personages are hot- blooded, but they have a sense of decency: they do not like to be caught in the act. And so, even while we have … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Breton, Arthur Rimbaud, Henry Miller, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Nick Burton, Paul Klee, Picasso, Rene Magritte, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, William H. Robinson | Leave a comment

the dream of the idea: fantasy behind the illusion

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Art

It was a time when the world was going terribly wrong. A look at the art of A.M. Cassandre…. by Art Chantry( art@artchantry.com) : This is the cover of Harper’s Bazaar, September 15th, 1939. the cover is by A.M. Cassandre. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged a.m. cassandre, alexey brodovitch, american editorial illustration, Andre Breton, art chantry, graphic design, harper's bazaar, Jean Cocteau, Man Ray, Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Raoul Dufy, Rene Magritte, Salvador dali, Surrealism | Leave a comment

somewhere down that crazy river

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Dave

Body painting. It has to be considered to be one of the oldest forms of art. Way before people covered themselves in clothes, they clothed themselves with pigments. Basically bright mineral paints that temporarily embellished the skin and the use … Continue reading →