Tag Archives: Salvador dali

homegrown or home blown: no name on the bullet

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Dave

We wish to glorify War — the only health giver of the world — militarism, patriotism, the destructive arm of the Anarchist, the beautiful Ideas that kill, the contempt for woman. We wish to destroy the museums, the libraries, to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Audie Murphy, Boston Marathon explosion, Filippo Marinetti, Giambologna sculpture, Guy Debord, Hieronymous Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Salvador dali, Sen. Diane Feinstein | Leave a comment

eccentrics: ruling passions

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Dave

…An eccentric, it has been said, is a logical person in an illogical world. Consider Sir George Fordyce, the nineteenth century British anatomist. Every afternoon at four he would eat his single meal of the day, a huge ingestion of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged David Weeks, eccentricity psychology, Edith Sitwell, glenn gould, Jamie James, pet shop boys, Richard Porson professor, Robert Downey Jr., Salvador dali, Sir George Fordyce | Leave a comment

near death: chasing down a soul

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Dave

Neither our logical systems nor our senses are tuned to that world. In it, Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” simply dissolves, since it is a habit of quanta both to be and not to be. Here then, is … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Carlos Alvarado, Elendur Haraldsson, Karlis Osis, Life After Death, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Salvador dali | Leave a comment

crossing to ophir: who came first?

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Dave

Who got here first? Refugees from Atlantis? Phoenicians piloting the children of Israel? Chinese? Egyptians? Or none of them? Is it possible to conceive of the unthinkable with regard to the discovery of America? In 1641 a Portuguese Jew named … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged 1492: Conquest of Paradise, Antono Montezinos Portuguese Jew, King Solomon Ophir, Lord Kingsborough England, Lost Tribes of Israel, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Manasseh ben Israel, Mormon Sacred Writings, Pecados artist, Salvador dali, Sargon II Assyria, the Jaredites Mormonism, The Phoenicians travels, Tower of Babel, Wardell Milan | Leave a comment

how sweet it was

Posted on August 14, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: the two great ones collaborating at last. nice album cover, too. this is from back in 1955 when gleason hired dali to design the cover for his record “lonesome echoes”. that’s the artwork used on the record … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged art chantry, Jackie Gleason, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Salvador dali | Leave a comment

the great ones

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is one of those ultra-famous vintage LP covers that never fails to surprise people when they see it. it’s from 1955 and it’s a cover by salvador dali! and what’s even more peculiar is that it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alice Cooper holograms Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol, brad holland, Jackie Gleason, Jackie Gleason albums, Jackie Gleason Lonesome Echo, Orson Welles, Salvador dali | Leave a comment

collect the gag panels on them

Posted on June 14, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is something else i collect – little corporate booklets of cartoons. basically, big business likes to commission gag comix from cartoonists and publish them in their magazines and advertising. they think that means they ‘support the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged art chantry, charles addams, chuck jones, corporate booklets cartoons, Hallmark Cards, jackie onassis, Madame Pickwick, National Lampoon Rodriguez, Norman Rockwell, Robert Crumb, ronald searle, Salvador dali, Shepard Fairey, spain rodriguez, Winston Churchill | Leave a comment

all fall down

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Dave

Down the labyrinth with no idea how to get out. Seven ways to the center but only one route out. And at that center is a dichotomy; either a minoutaur lying in wait at the end of the journey or … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Franz Kafka, Icarus, jean fouquet, Joshua and Jericho, Joshua and the fall of Jericho, Moses Cordovero, myth of daedalus, myth of Daedelus, Pablo Picasso, Salvador dali, salvador dali and picasso, Salvador Dali Vermeer | Leave a comment

unsparing visions of excess

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Dave

Viridiana, a ferocious imagery that startled movie-goers at its time. The Left ethos that encapsulated everything from Le Chien Andalou ( 1929) , The Young One,The Damned, Stranger in the Room, The Roots, etc. Like Bergman and Fellini this was … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bunuel Land Without Bread, Bunuel Viridiana, Chaplin City Lights, Chaplin Monsieur Verdoux, Charlie Chaplin, Clement Greenberg, Frederico Fellini, Garcia de Quevedo, Ingmar Bergman, Lazarillo de Tormes, Luis Bunuel, Perez Galdos, Salvador dali | Leave a comment

paranoid spittled walls

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Dave

This exaltation of the violent compulsive spontaneity so reified by the Dada movement, Andre Breton and Max Ernst in particular was put to almost absurd extremes into an effort to appropriate Leonardo Da Vinci into their nihilistic process of attacking … Continue reading →