Tag Archives: Paul Klee

narratives of the nameless: remember to forget

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Dave

Constantly changing traditions and a constantly changing confrontation and relationship with death. Does remembrance amount to a merely symbolic gesture of observing a few moments silence,laying a wreath at these tombs of the nameless, which is actually a kind of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged arlington national cemetery, armistice day, Bill Clinton, call of duty video game, Charles Baudelaire, Howard Zinn, Jacques Derrida, Joe Rosenthal, kathleen hall jameson, Marcel Proust, Max Horkheimer, Paul Klee, raymond barglow, remembrance day, Ronald Reagan, ronald reagan veterans day, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin angel of history | Leave a comment

angelus in the midnight hour

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Dave

from George Steiner: …the thesis whereby it is the ethical and cognitive duty of history, of enacted remembrance, to rescue from oblivion the oppressed, the enslaved, the victims of successful injustice, to bring them back to protesting life out of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, Henri Cartier-Bresson, jon corzine, Paul Klee, Theodor Adorno, Victor Hugo, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

exit strategy: swap and shop

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Dave

Complex identities and conflicting and conflicted identities struggling with the burden of cynicism. Its hard to find the spiritual in profane times. But lets not work to hard at it.Dense and dark, the lyrical and the epic; the brooding and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Chaim Soutine, Edmund White, Edward Said, gilad schalit, gilad shalit, hadrien laroche, Jean Genet, Martin Buber, martin kramer, meir margalit, milly heyd, Paul Klee, rembrandt the jewish bride, Theodore Gericault, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

angels and the catastrophe of history:waiting for his master’s voice

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dave

Why do angels have wings? What do angels mean today? In early Christian times God’s messengers walked as men. But after the sweeping conversions of the pagan world, Christian artists found inspiration in the flying deities of ancient faiths dressing … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged coventry patmore, douglas bourgeois, Emil Jannings, Gershom Scholem, John Milton, John Ruskin, Marlene Dietrich, Martin Buber, Paul Klee, randy newman harps and angels, Robert ParkeHarrison, steve pinker, Thorstein Veblen, walter benjamin angel of history | Leave a comment

angels: flying against the current of progress

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Dave

Angels of history. When Benozzo Gozzoli painted a rapt band of angels in 1459, he, without hesitation, gave them softly undulant robes, splendid wings, and the further support of rainbow clouds. Obviously, Gozzoli, had likely never seen an angel himself. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged angelus novus, Benozzo Gozzoli, Caravaggio, Charles Baudelaire, dennis redmond, Gershom Scholem, Ghirlandaio, henry giroux, Paul Klee, Peter Paul Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, raymond barglow, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin angel of history, Winged Victory | Leave a comment

the one after 193

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Dave

Not something from the back of a cereal box. A real country. Or some neutered and coiffed Bantustan experiment with nifty uniforms and fan-far parades. Real borders and a real economy. Or a box within a box and the welfare … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Amy Goodman, artemisia Gentileschi, barack obama israel, cornel west, denis goldberg, Herman Melville, Jan van Eyck, jan van eyck ghent altarpiece, mahmoud abbas, meir margailt, Naomi Klein, Nicolas Poussin, noah j. efron, Noam Chomsky, palestinian statehood, Paul Klee, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rembrandt, ronit lentin, yakov m. rabkin | Leave a comment

thrown ups: winning the cultural explosion

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) After the ‘grunge explosion’ died out and the dust settled, there were, in reality, only a very few people who actually became long term successful. the number of actual “millionaires” could be counted on the fingers … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Andy Warhol, art chantry, Ben Shahn, charles peterson photography, david stone martin, ed fotheringham, jacob lawrence, love battery, mudhoney piece of cake, nathan gluck, nieman marcus, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, reid miles blue note, the rocket newspaper, the thrown ups | Leave a comment

fathers and sons: leaving traces

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Dave

It was a school that combined crafts and fine arts, and conceptually followed a basic idea that mass-production was reconcilable with individual artistic spirit. Founded at Weimar in 1919, Bauhaus concepts of art were particularly influenced by Modernism. That is, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Arnold Schoenberg, Bauhaus Art, Bertolt Brecht, Clement Greenberg, Georges Braque, Henri Rousseau, Josef Albers, Lyonel Feininger, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Stephane Mallarme, t.lux feininger, Walter Benjamin, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

Innocent magic

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Dave

Paul Klee had the kind of innocent magic that could evoke a wistful human face from the simplest of geometric forms. In “Senecio” he does it with circles for head and eyes, a straight line to suggest a nose, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged Bauhaus, Bauhaus Art, Joseph Campbell, joseph campbell art, Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, paul klee senecio, Walter Gropius | Leave a comment

Miro and the Tears of A clown: Harlequin Carnival

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Dave

“Painting or poetry is made as we make love,” said Joan Miro. His personages are hot- blooded, but they have a sense of decency: they do not like to be caught in the act. And so, even while we have … Continue reading →