Tag Archives: Mark Vallen

future crock

Italian futurism….. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is something I clipped somewhere a while back. No recollection of where it was, or when it was. I don’t know who did this and I don’t know when it was created, or whether … Continue reading

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disruptive mobility: mop up the unemployed imagination

Art that contradicts by showing its contradictions, its unresolvable tensions, will usually end up being debunked and marginalized as a distortion to a broader picture.A random anomaly to be forgotten.  There is a tendency to want to keep our morals, … Continue reading

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dix & the creative curse: if hollywood say so its O.K.

The idea was to find an idiom that best suited him to criticize the society he found himself: essentially, a capitalist bourgeois Germany. After returning from the front, he passed through the expressionist, futurist and dada schools before settling on … Continue reading

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alienating and liberating

The art of Hollywood, or really the business of Hollywood is to dumb and trivialize any critical currents into marketable product. Absorption and coop-tion skills that dumb everything down into cheap neutral entertainment where meaningful content is parceled into bite-sized … Continue reading

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$#*! That’s real real gone

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

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distorting the tragic flaws

Otto Dix has been said to be primarily a critic of capitalism, and secondly an artist who expressed this view through painting. Although its questionable, and even debatable whether the classic capitalism of the industrial era still exists; its underlying … Continue reading

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the deaf man’s house: paint it black

Somehow with Francisco Goya, we never quite ask why a man whose friends in maturity were among the most enlightened thinkers and the most devoted moralists of the age of reason; a man who, we have kept telling ourselves, shared … Continue reading

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distorting mirrors: freaks of mechanical reincarnation

Was Otto Dix first and foremost a critic of capitalism? A critic through the bias of the industrial/military/cultural complex that was the beast carrying the burden of material comfort for the lambs. He made sermons without preaching and an artistic … Continue reading

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caprichos: folly ridden assemblies

The “Caprichos” of Francisco Goya were among the first etchings to be done with aquatint, and were completed between 1796 and 1798 then put on sale the following year in book form. They had begun to take shape in the … Continue reading

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