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which picasso?
What made Picasso unique in the history of art is the degree to which he became what may be described as an orchestrator of the public attitude toward his work, expertly creating sympathetic responses to his various successive styles. These … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Kuspit, Dora Maar, Madame Pickwick, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, Titian
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periods and public
The Picasso industry. From 1895 to 1944 alone there were a total of 6,751 works of which half were drawings.By the early 1960’s when he was still churning out pieces, there was an additional three to four thousand plus over … Continue reading
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Tagged Clement Greenberg, Henri Matisse, King Philip II Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pablo Picasso, Paul Rosenberg art dealer, Paul Rosenberg Picasso, picasso blue period, Picasso Circus period, Picasso Pink Period, Titian
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poussin: showing your peasant
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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Tagged andrea del sarto, ann sutherland harris, Claude Lorrain, Corot, ed ruscha, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Gentile Bellini, Georges Seurat, Keith Christiansen, Nicolas Poussin, olivier bonfait, paul bril, Paul Cezanne, Pierre Rosenberg, Piet Mondrian, silvia ginzburg, Sir Kenneth Clark, thomas cole the course of empire, Titian
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peasant and poet : mind over matter
Monsu Pussino and the gradual retreat of instinct. The ideal is clear. Painting, as one of Nicolas Poussin’s admirer’s put it, must “talk”. A canvas should not only be visible to the eye but legible to the mind. Listing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Caravaggio, Cervantes, Donald Kuspit, Ernst Gombrich, felibien, Jacopo Sannazaro, james frazer the golden bough, John Milton Paradise Lost, Keith Christiansen, Marino Marini, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, pietro de cortona, raphael's form, Richard Wolheim, Titian, Virgil Aenid
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uffizi: arcadia cash n’ carry
Zoffany, in the 1760’s was commissioned by Queen Charlotte to created a canvas that would immortalize the Uffizi, Florence’s major museum, and in particular the Renaissance treasures of the Medici collection. The visit to the Uffizi was a major goal … Continue reading
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Tagged E.H. Gombrich, Frank Zappa, Jann Haworth, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johan Zoffany, Laura Mulvey, Michael Cooper, Robert Fraser, sir peter blake, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Walter Benjamin, Walter Pater
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The Death and Resurrection Show: the shaman industry?
A guest blog by Tai Carmen at Parallax. Parallax:Exploring the architecture of human perception.The word parallax is a scientific term denoting a shift in perception upon movement of the perceiver rather than the perceived. Bang a gong, get it on…. … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertrand Russell, beyonce, Carl Jung, Carlo Ginzburg, daniel pinchbeck, Dionysus, Greil Marcus, James Frazer, james frazer the golden bough, James Hillman, jeremy narby, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Ken Kesey, Lady Gaga, mercea eliade, rogan taylor, stanley booth, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, Titian
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A dionysian frenzy: a downer of a deity?
Only if you lose yourself can you find yourself? This is the message of the eternal orgy of spring. Is Dionysus really the god of rock n’ roll? The god, superhuman power, force of nature,call him what you like, known … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristophanes, Ayn Rand, chuck berry, Euripides, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Homer, Homer The Odyssey, Jim Morrison The Doors, Keith Richards, lester bangs, Mick Jagger, robert christgau, robert palmer, ruth benedict, Stravinsky, Titian
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feast and famine of pure reason
At age twenty-two in 1937, the Museum of Modern Art purchased “Feast of Pure Reason” , and Jack Levine became known as the school of Boston Expressionism. It seems hardly justified that his work would fall almost totally out of … Continue reading
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Tagged David Sutherland, Dennis Raverty, Harvey Kurtzman, Honore Daumier, Jack Levine, Jacques Ranciere, Jerry Tallmer, Marc Chagall, Marcus Williamson, Pablo Picasso, Robert Crumb, Robert Hughes, Seth Lipsky, Thomas Rowlandson, Titian, William Hogarth
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THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS: Stranded in Venice
For a thousand years Venice held, “the gorgeous east in fee” and set its own terms for the West. Then Napoleon saw a bluff…and called it…. In Venice’s finest years she was a hard, unyielding, brilliant sort of state; an … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Byron Childe Harolde, Canaletto, Carlo Goldoni, Elaine Pilkington, Giorgione, Giovanni Antonio Canal, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Goethe, Janine Flynn, John Ruskin, Joseph Spencer Kennard, Palladio, Palma Vecchio, Philippe Monnier, Pietro Longhi, Rick Steves, Tintoretto, Titian, Vasco da Gama, Vittoro Carpaccio, Warren Adelson
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