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Tag Archives: Robert Rosenblum
soul portrait: mirror of the moon
Is there a moon in the soul, slivery shivers of light acting as an electro-magnetic field absorbing and expanding sensorial perceptions, like a flashlight vaguely illuminating a dark and unknown attic of our mind…. I saw the best minds of … Continue reading
cairo: flights into egypt
Sensationalism.The aesthetic of violence in the Society of the Spectacle. The birth of the agitated space and a relishing of absurd charismatic appeal. Art, like the society around it, became caught between the joy of freedom and the fear of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Art
Tagged Antoine-Jean Gros, darcy grimaldo grigsby, Dominique-Vivant Denon, Edward Said, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Baptiste Regnault, joachim beuckelaer, john frederick lewis, Louis Sass, martin kramer, Robert Rosenblum, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Suzi Gablik, sylvain bellenger
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neither the real or unreal
Does every artist paint him or herself in a portrait? That is, a representation of the alter-ego. Is Girodet’s Belley portrait a reflection of the artist, following the tradition as almost all the great masters have done before? It’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Abbe Raynal, angelo poliziano, Anne-Louis Girodet, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, gerolamo savonarola, Giovanni Morelli, Jacques-Louis David, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rosenblum, sylvain bellenger
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to be equals among equals
Tangled up in the tri-color. Girodet’s portrait of Belley is still a controversial painting whose implications remain pertinent and relevant, embroiled as we are in the same morass that followed the French Revolution. Girodet was the first artist to cross … Continue reading
collapsing the geometric order
The search for emotional impact. Classicism and romanticism are only tenuously compatible. Like Cain and Abel, its a contrapuntal piece of music, that if played often enough, like Glenn Gould with Bach, can create some some odd exposures to the … Continue reading
Miro and the green paradises of childhood
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of a child’s art is that it cannot go wrong. There are no bad drawings by children; in the same way, there are no bad paintings by Joan Miro. The German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adolf Wolfi, Adolf Wolfli, Alberto Giacometti, Alfonso Ossorio, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Carolyn Lancher, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louise Bourgeois, Matthew Weinstein, Molly Nesbit, Paul Klee, Philip Guston, Robert Rosenblum, Rosalind Krauss
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back to the garden: Miro and green paradises of childhood
Perhaps the most striking characteristic of a child’s art is that it cannot go wrong. There are no bad drawings by children; in the same way, there are no bad paintings by Joan Miro. The German dramatist Heinrich von Kleist … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adolf Wolfi, Adolf Wolfli, Alberto Giacometti, Alfonso Ossorio, Andre Breton, Andre masson, Carolyn Lancher, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Ernest Hemingway, Heinrich von Kleist, Jean Dubuffet, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Louise Bourgeois, Matthew Weinstein, Molly Nesbit, Paul Klee, Philip Guston, Robert Rosenblum, Rosalind Krauss
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