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men of leisure: rewards of mediocrity
When you read about the number of billionaires in the United States, it is easy to arrive at a judgement that defines Americans as brighter than everyone else and have the cash hoard as evidence. This is balanced by cultural … Continue reading
jarring sales hustle and aesthetic goals
“Art in the native American mind enjoys the dubious importance attached to the devil in the medieval mind” – Alexander Harvey The artistic imagination enters only rather furtively into economic life. Artistic truth is still revealed not by the artist … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alexander Harvey, amien Hirst, Andy Warhol, Arnold Hauser, Dean Valentine, Don and Mira Rubel, Donald Kuspit, Henry Ford art collection, Jackson Pollock, joseph duveen, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko, Mira Rubel, Mugrabi art collection, Norman Rockwell, Robert Hughes, Van Gogh Arles
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eccentric patrons
By October 1942, Peggy Guggenheim was ready to open in New York a new gallery, Art of This Century, surely the most eccentric pleasure dome ever decreed for the inspection of art. Lights flashed on and off, with great rushes … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexander Calder, Anton Gill, Edward Hopper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Glynis Bell, Grant Wood, Jackson Pollock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Rothko, Mary V. Dearborn, Max Ernst, Museum of Non-Objective Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Robert Motherwell, Solomon Guggenheim, Thomas Hart Benton
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absolute shower of gold
Van Gogh spent a little more than two years in Arles and its environs, painting the burning light and indelible shadows of Arles… The city languished under the Provencal sun, adding to its collection of interesting buildings during the Renaissance … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Aaron Sheon, Arles Vincent van Gogh, Fernand Leger, Gilbert Rose, John Gedo, Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Rothko, monks of montmajour, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Rembrandt, Van Ens dutch engineer, Van Gogh Arles, Vincent Van Gogh
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watching paint dry
There used to be a lot of decorative painting classes at one time, the great idea that the artist required no technical drawing skills or imagination to create a design. Just use tracing paper and graphite paper and bingo you … Continue reading
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Tagged Diego Rivera, diego rivera murals, Dr. Otto Rohm, DuPont acrylics history, Earth Safe Finishes, Grumbacher Academy Acrylic, Grumbacher Acrylic, Jose David Alfaro Siqueiros, Leonard Bocour, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Mark Rothko, Sam Golden
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