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klee: emptying the void
Paul Klee. First thing to hang your hat on is that his great technical skill and intellectualism were peripheral to his art. His art, for the most part, remains a mystery to be solved by most, a sophisticated harmony battling … Continue reading
fly in the soup of innocence
Henri Rousseau was fortunate enough to receive from established painters whom he admired the good advice to avoid formal training even when he was in a position to take advantage of it. Emulating himself, Rousseau developed a style of great … Continue reading
humor in art: hurt idealism
It would seem that humour and style are inseparable. But humour itself is not-never was-mere jocularity. Humour is a way of feeling about life, and when humour is great it is almost never without one of its opposite moods- tenderness, … Continue reading
complicity: holocaust reprisal
Holocaust denial. An inverted, form of denial where the number of camps is exponentially greater than what could possibly be imagined. And the number of victims greater as well? It comes back to that stubborn old national characteristic which is … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged caspar david freidrich, charles krafft, Geoffrey Megargee, Gottfried Helnwein, Hartmut Berghoff, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Martin Dean, Paul Klee, Sam Dubbin lawyer, United Styates Holocaust Memorial Museum, walter benjamin angel of history
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just like the first time
Just like the first time and we may be starting over…Appeal to the base, get the first time voters off the couch and into the booth. Mother Lena Dunham will give them a basic anatomy course and stimulate the viral … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Derrais Carter, George Orwell, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Jenkins, Jeffrey Hunter The Searchers, John Ford The Searchers, John Wayne The Searchers, Joshua Keating Foreign Policy, Len a Dunham, Nicholas Yanes, Paul Klee, Pauline Kael, Rogan Kersh Wake Forest, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin angel of history
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its about ideas: language of graphic design
by Art Chantry: i found this mag and snagged it immediately. i ASSUMED it was an early warhol magazine cover (done for the infamous “draw binky” ‘Famous Artists Correspondence School” magazine partly owned by norman rockwell, no less!) but, when … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Ben Shahn, david stone martin, ed fotheringham, Logan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mudhoney piece of cake, nathan gluck, nieman marcus, Norman Rockwell, Paul Klee, William Burroughs
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wild bauhaus bohemians: mechanical paradise
A “house for building” is what Walter Gropius called the new school he founded in Germany in 1919. But the Bauhaus was much more than its modest name implies: it was a force that changed the shape of the modern … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged anna freud, Clement Greenberg, georg muche, joost schmidt, Josef Albers, Kurt Weill, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Lyonel Feininger, Mies van der Rohe, oskar schlemmer, Paul Klee, Thomas Mann, ulrike muller, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky
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madame x : plantation to paris
The French were considered to have less scruples relating to eroticism than the English. Manet’s Olympia broke the mold, but, in an exhibition where paintings of nudes were common, that of Madame Gautreau in black evening dress was considered more … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged a.hyatt mayer, Arthur Rimbaud, charles merrill mount, david mccullough, Diego Velazquez, Edouard Manet, Henry James, horace gregory, isabella stewart gardner, jack gardner, John Singer Sargent, louis de fourcaud, Paul Klee, sir osbert sitwell, stanley olson, Walter Benjamin
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