Tag Archives: Piet Mondrian

ball four strike 3 fair or foul?

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Dave

Who’s on first? Does it matter? Although the actors change, the same situations repeat themselves, almost, in an eternal cycle. But, baseball is a business. It may be the national pastime, imbued in the national fabric but it remains a … Continue reading →

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cut off from the past: and a long way from home

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Dave

There is always much talk of the occult in art,the dark side of modern art, the falsification to no end, the artifice, the signs of horror, the negation of beauty and above all, the inability to love. We can think … Continue reading →

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poussin: showing your peasant

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Dave

As Mondrian himself and many others have proved, mathematical perfection has a finality which is often fatal to art. That was a danger that threatened Nicolas Poussin. What saved him was the reappearance, around 1650, of a side of his … Continue reading →

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tendencies that ought to be conflicting

Posted on August 30, 2011 by Dave

In Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, the snobbish Mme de Cambremer at one point exclaims, ” In heaven’s name, after a painter like Monet, who is an absolute genius, don’t go an mention an old hack without a vestige … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Corot, Eugene Delacroix, French Literature. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past, Georges Rouault, Jacques Lemercier, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, John Constable, Marcel Proust, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Scarron, Peter Paul Rubens, Piet Mondrian, Raphael, Rembrandt, Simon Vouet | Leave a comment

PET without pi

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Dave

…Dali knew that with the rejection of reason preached by the modernists, surrealists would not be able to grow into an understanding of the subconscious since this would end up in a depreciation of the power of intellect to comprehend … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged Piet Mondrian, Salvador dali | Leave a comment

bliss is golden: balancing act of invisible glory

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Dave

A is to B as B is to C. See? But, seeing is not always believing.How does one mediate opposites which appear contradictory and hostile to one another? Jung suggested a transcendent function which is a combination of conscious and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Albrecht Durer, Botticelli, Carl Jung, De Stijl, E.H. Gombrich, Friedrich Nietzsche, Leonardo Da Vinci, luca pacioli, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, roberto assagioli, Sandro Botticelli, Sigmund Freud, the golden mean, The Golden Ratio, Theo Van Doesburg | Leave a comment

deja vu: it looks vaguely familiar

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Dave

Handed-down distortions of truth. Its all about challenging the idea of originality and walking delicately over eggshells or hot coals depending on the context. The image seems familiar but the projection, or its juxtaposition or message is not. Where are … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Christian marclay, gillian wearing, Piet Mondrian, Richard Prince, Rube Goldberg, Saul Steinberg | Leave a comment

East of eden: most likely to secede

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Dave

the recent death of Jack Levine, at 95 years old, serves as a reminder that the artistic currents and social issues that confronted him and his contemporaries are illuminating in their reflection of our present condition. It was an era … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Ashcan School, Ben Shahn, Chaim Soutine, Georges Rouault, Jack Levine, Philip Evergood, Piet Mondrian, Thomas Eakins, Vincent Van Gogh, W.I. Homer, willem de Kooning, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

CONFUSION SAYS: Matisse and the Passion of Constant Motion

Posted on December 30, 2010 by Dave

His whole career, said Matisse, could be thought of as a progress toward clarity and simplification: “A constant struggle for complete expression with a minimum of elements. ” Actually, his career had many meanings, as any great artist’s must, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Fernand Leger, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Joan Miro, John Elderfield, Leonide Massine, Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, Riva Castleman, Stephane Mallarme | Leave a comment

THE SIMPLE SEER: “FIRST” Possession of a Moment

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Dave

Human monocular and bifocal vision is very different to the action of the camera lens. In fact, Bonnard’s paintings get much more complex spatially when he gives up using the camera around 1920, and relies more and more on his … Continue reading →