Tag Archives: Marcel marceau

playing the fool

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Dave

The harlequin character of the commedia dell’ arte, began life in the Middle Ages as a figure of the Devil. The sinister is an inherent element in clowning: even the most innocent of circus clowns makes his grease paint mouth … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Achille Zavatta clown, Charlie Chaplin, Gordano the Clown, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel marceau, Marcel Marceau Bip, Professor Hilton Park, Steve-O from Jackass, Wavy Gravy clown | Leave a comment

can kicking with operation twist : i’m with stupid

Posted on June 29, 2012 by Dave

An unfolding drama in which the answer to be found may be in not what is said. The Anglo-American financial system as Marcel Marceau mime.How else to explain the world apart, the disjunct between words and action , or lack … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bart Chilton, Bernie Madoff, Bob Diamond Barclays, Buster keaton, Chris Lucas Barclays, LIBOR fixing scandal, LIBOR scandal Barclays Bank, London Interbank offered rate scandal, Marcel Duchamp, Marcel marceau, Peter Madoff, tom wesselmann | Leave a comment

$#*! That’s real real gone

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Dave

Its not an ecstasy of death. Its brutal, factual, inescapable physical event devoid of sentiment, nostalgia, romance, and valor. It is the Triumph of Death; uncannily realistic and without myth, or sermon or ritual. To Otto Dix, death was not … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Adam Phillips, Felix Nussbaum, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Maja, Leo Bersani, Marcel marceau, Mark Vallen, Otto Dix, Richard Poirier, Robert Fulford, T.S. Eliot, Ulysse Dutoit, Viktor Frankl | Leave a comment

MIMETIC ART & THE SWEET BLACK ANGELS

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Dave

”Paris est si petit pour les gens gens comme nous qui s’aiment d’un aussi grand amour” ( Children of Paradise ) Children of Paradise was conceived as a film spectaculaire in the fullest sense of the term. It is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Alexandre Trauner, Antonioni, Arletty, Blowup, Carla Bruni, Edward Turk, eric brightwell, Etienne Decroux, French Cinema, Gilles Deleuze, jacques Prevert, James Agee, Jean Louis Barrault, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Jim Morrison The Doors, Joseph Kosma, Joseph Mankiewicz, Leo Sayer, Lindsay Kemp, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Children of Paradise, Marcel marceau, Marcel Proust, Michelangelo Antonioni, Numbers USA, Numbers USA Roy Beck, Pierre-Francois Lacenaire, Roy Beck, Sarkozy, The Doors, Victor Hugo, www.amoeba.com | Leave a comment

EXILE BY THE RIVERS DARK: OU EST LE SOLEIL

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Dave

”His profile, pitched in a precisely preconceived profile of a pose, the enormous ear, the prominent nose. His chin – smooth, not yet his signature unshaven chin— juts serenely, sagely, slightly upturned. The lips, sensual-soft, poised in mid-exhale. As if … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Baudelaire, Brigitte Bardot, Carolyn Heinz, Dreyfus Affair, Ezra Pound, French Cinema, Gainsbourg, Gainsbourg Melody Nelson, Gertrude Stein, Grant Rosenberg, Hannah Arendt, Henry Miller, Jane Birkin, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Joann Sfar, Marcel marceau, Serge Gainsbourg | Leave a comment

Lovers In A Dangerous Time ( pt.2 )

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Dave

…Lovers always live in a dangerous time. In any era and under most human conditions, love is itself a dangerous condition, a precarious existence, a coming of age of what Marcel Marceau called ”the immaturity of the good”.It is pure … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen, Marcel marceau, Mark Jenkins | Leave a comment

Surreal Art That Mimes Life

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Dave

He died penniless. He died hungry, sick and in complete solitude. Lonely and compartmentalized. Thats how the curtain fell on French mime artist Marcel Marceau. Sixty years of work and an encore of ending his existence in an empty room … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Marcel marceau, Mark Jenkins, William Blake | 2 Comments

A Surreal Invisible Silence

Posted on August 1, 2009 by Dave

Mime is the art of making the invisible visible, according to Marcel Marceau. A very complex man, Marceau was the recipient of the Raoul Wallenberg Medal for his role is savings hundreds of children during wartime France. ”While in the … Continue reading →

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The Art of Silence

Posted on July 31, 2009 by Dave

Wordless poetry. The art of mime is the poetry of silence. The mimodrama is the narrative that the silence speaks, unfolding through the mime artist as a channel or medium to reflect, a mood, a character, a story expressed through … Continue reading →