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Tag Archives: Norman Rockwell
full circle
Sometimes things become intertwined in a full circle that initially escapes us since the assumed understanding is based on enlightenment principles guided by the linear progression of science and technology where evolution is rational and explainable. In Donald Kuspit’s The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Edward Landseer, Francis Bacon, French Salon painting, Jean Leon Gerome, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Norman Rockwell, odd nerdrum, Sarah Bernhardt
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smuggle the uncomfortable
“The contradictory works of storied illustrator Norman Rockwell resonate in an age of anxiety”, or so the article began. Well enough anyway. But downhill from there. There is a process of historical revisionism underway that seeks to place Rockwell solidly … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Clement Greenberg, Cornelius Krieghoff, dave hickey, Edward Hopper, Ernest Hemingway, Frans Hals, Honore Daumier, James McNeil Whistler, James McNeill Whistler, Kate taylor, kate taylor globe and mail, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Norman Rockwell, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek
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owens: exchanging hand waves
To separate politics from sport is a virtual ideal, not realizable, and similat in context to examining religion without a political context. The Jesse Owens performance in Berlin in 1936 showed how efforts to insulate sport from politics is futile. … Continue reading
innocent no more
To follow up on Rockwell, and digress further into some of the implications brought up by Richard Halpern in his book, The Underside of Innocence, we of course cannot confirm the theory posited by him, but there does appear to … Continue reading
norman the negotiator
Naughty Norman. Not really. Unconscious of what he was doing, or in the grip of forces otside his control. Not likely. Ostensibly, it was a play on innocence, but it was effectively not much different than a J.D. Salinger, Isaac … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, David Bowie, Doris Day, Francis Bacon, Frank Capra, Hieronymous Bosch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, J.D. Salinger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Mickey Mantle, Norman Rockwell, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Halpern, Sigmund Freud
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forever young
To stay forever young. To defy aging. to somehow cheat the odds and glorify in a kind of infantilism; a taunting provocative sort of dissent, like children peeing on the living room carpet. We are definitely in a post-art age … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, christian boltanski, Donald Kuspit, John Heartfield, John Lennon Walls and Bridges, Lynn Stern, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Norman Rockwell, paul mccarthy, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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just above the knees
Syrupy sentimentality dished out in soup ladles is not enough. Kitsch alone cannot explain the enduring allure or at least interest in Norman Rockwell’s work. According to Donald Kuspit in his article “Art Values or Money Values” , Rockwell works … Continue reading
the live adventures of norman and normal
Norman Rockwell’s paintings are impossible not to recognize.The first inclination is to dismiss his work as kitschy, sentimental drivel of an earlier more naive time, which does tend to pacify our own anxiety by touching the chords of a false … Continue reading
back to walden pond
Rockwell. Norman Rockwell. Kitsch. Sentimental. He helped define American popular culture in a manner almost as influential as Walt Disney. His recreation of a phony artificial world that never existed. A fantasy world tailor made for the peculiar form that … Continue reading