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Tag Archives: Pablo Picasso
picasso: life as phases
Picasso was always, like a playwright, constantly “in dialogue” with his audience, ever needing the audience, sensing it and feeling it out like a lover pursuing the object of his affections. He was, in many ways, a metteur en scene, … Continue reading
eureka process
How does a scientist make his discoveries? How does a poet find his metaphors? And for that matter, how does a chimpanzee get at a banana? Arthur Koestler said it is done through the Eureka process. The act of creation, … Continue reading
art for the sake of creative destruction
Consciousness of the all-mighty dollar is pretty pervasive, even overwhelming. In the modern art world it informs aesthetic and spiritual content like everything else in society, conquering art such that art itself is a pure commodity, a sub-species of money … Continue reading
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darwin: throwing the dice at blind chance
…To some, the implications of Darwin’s theory were negative and desolating. The whole earth no longer proclaimed the glory of the Lord. Paradoxically, in revealing the closeness of man’s links with the rest of creation, Darwin seemed to have cutt … Continue reading
get back: carrying the weight from Beyrouth
Sad. forlorn. A gnawing emptiness, yet at the same time grateful that perfection, spiritual perfection is finite. A pilgrim’s progress is simply that. Endless progress.They look sad, but there is joy in the journey, behind the melancholy and the desperation … Continue reading
he let the dogs out
George W. Bush: painter. Painter of dogs and landscapes. And dogs in landscapes. … If dogs run free, then why not we Across the swooping plain? My ears hear a symphony Of two mules, trains and rain The best is … Continue reading
across the great divide: leave it behind
Early in the twentieth century Oswald Spengler, in The Decline of the West, wrote of the irreversible historical pattern of growth, flowering, withering, and decay that has marked the destiny of every known civilization and is, he said, now undoing … Continue reading
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