Tag Archives: Rembrandt

paradox: soul on ice and fire

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Dave

Rembrandt’s vagabond prints were studies of despair and wretchedness far removed from say, the Frans Hals norm of guileful, droll figures within the tradition of moral satire that reaffirmed popular images of the bottom of the social rung. Rembrandt, though, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged bosch prodigal son, cornel west, Frans Hals, gary schwartz, Hieronymous Bosch, Martin Buber, mitch snyder, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, rembrandt return of the prodigal son, rembrandt the jewish bride, Sandro Botticelli | Leave a comment

the fallen: paradox of the soul

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Dave

The Belgian film Hasta La Vista, about three disabled young men on a road trip in Spain’s wine country to lose their virginity in a specialty bordello, has been getting some critical acclaim, most notably, the grand prize at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Albrecht Durer, asta philpot, Bruegel the Cripples, come as you are ( hasta la vista ), daniel heinsius, geoffrey enthorn, Hieronymous Bosch, hugo simberg, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Matthias Grunewald, montreal world film festival, Otto Dix, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt | 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

authentic pathology and cozy passivity

Posted on September 15, 2011 by Dave

Is art is the creation of an artifact that is it’s own argument? Essentially, It does not need a theory to define it, an expert scholar to contextualize it, or a given situation to render it meaning. So, a true … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, Filippo Marinetti, graydon parrish, Harold Rosenberg, Jeff Koons, jenny saville, Lady Gaga, Lucian Freud, Lucien Freud, Marcel Duchamp, Rembrandt, Svetlana Alpers, T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

storyteller: the way they were….

Posted on September 5, 2011 by Dave

From a Rick Salutin piece that appeared in the Toronto Star. I am barely old enough to remember this comedy duo written about by the author but I remember sensing their spirit, vulnerability, insecurity, defiance and basic goodness that made … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged arthur goldreich, Constance Rourke, denis goldberg, emmanuel levinas, joseph heath, Martin Buber, Nicolas Poussin, nikolai leskov, Rembrandt, Rick Salutin, the avalanches frontier psychologist, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin, wayne and shuster | Leave a comment

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

variations of destructive mockery

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Dave

Overrated? Is it true that Picasso could pathologically destroy, or sabotage paintings of the old masters by sullying and subverting them? Is it simple playfulness,a prank,a mockery, a tribute, or an attempt to surpass the original? Strip Picasso of his … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Diego Velazquez, Donald Kuspit, Douglas Cooper, freddie rokem, john bratby, Lyonel Feininger, melanie klein, miles w. mathis, Pablo Picasso, pierre cabane, Rembrandt, roland penrose, Sigmund Freud, Simon Schama, susan buck-morss, susan galassi, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

freudian slide into nihilism

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Dave

Maybe the problem is a mimicry of art historical forms without connecting to the poetic myths that animated and gave life to these forms. That is, the aura of the profound is a falsification in that the depth of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Auguste Rodin, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Rivera, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Jacob Epstein, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kitty garman, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Sigmund Freud, Sir Kenneth Clark, spruiell, Vincent Van Gogh, william grimes | Leave a comment

artfully preserved

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Dave

The paintings may appear a bit superficial, an air of being quickly rendered and spontaneous, like Bob Ross “deep” , but they were painstakingly and deliberately wrought … Franz Hals is at the Met and the seventeenth-century Dutch master has … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Frans Hals, James McNeill Whistler, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Singer Sargent, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Norman Rockwell, Rembrandt, ROberta Smith New York Times, seymour slive, Vincent Van Gogh, walter liedtke | Leave a comment

jerusalem : greeting on this day

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Dave

Maurice Merleau Ponty: Progress is not so much a movement toward a homogenous or classless society as the quest… for a life which is not unlivable for the greatest number.” ( Rick Salutin, Toronto Star ) Certainly, in the case … Continue reading →