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and they got their butts kicked
Essence, body and soul. Everything in perfect harmony. And the bad guys got whipped big time. Apparently. But that’s all water under the bridge, even if that H2O is a bit salty with tears. And they really do want the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, Jan Victors, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, matisyahu, Pieter Lastman, Purim jewish holiday, purimpalooza, Rabbi Langer San Francisco, Rembrandt, rembrandt the jewish bride, San Francisco Chabad, Van Gogh
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it will all end without having been completed
Merleau Ponty: We are fascinated by the classical idea of intellectual, adequation that partly mute “thought” sometimes leaves us with the impression of a significant swirl of significations, a paralyzed, miscarried utterance….What, then, is the secret science which he has … Continue reading
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Tagged DaVinci, Erwin Panofsky, Jan van Eyck, Leonardo Da Vinci, Maurice Merleau Ponty, Pablo Picasso, Van Gogh
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theater of cruelty: take no prisoners
Dave: Throughout his life he was to plead for special consideration on the grounds that he was suffering and different from other men. He should be allowed to publish and act not due to any particular merit, but because it … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andre Gide, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Varese, Fritz Lang, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Riviere, Paule Thevenin, R.D. Laing, Robert Aron, Roger Vitrac, Sigmund Freud, Van Gogh
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collapse of the soul: the flux of the IT
He could never really control what he did or what he wrote. Artaud said these defects of form were often rescued from complete nothingness. The raw results attributed to ” a collapse of the soul at its center, a kind … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Antonin Artaud, Charlie Sheen, Erich Fromm, Georg Groddeck, heinrich maria darvinghausen, Jacques Derrida, Lawrence Durrell, Oskar Kokoschka, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
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vincent in arles: goodbye yellow brick house
… then in February 1888, during a snowstorm, came a Dutchman who saw Arles as the city had been waiting to be seen- a miracle of color beneath the golden sun. Vincent van Gogh adored “the sun pouring down bright … Continue reading
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Tagged Daumier, Emile Bernard, Eugene Delacroix, Gauguin, Ingres, Jean-Francois Millet, Martin Gayford, Paul Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Robert Freedman, Theo van Gogh, Van Gogh, van Gogh in Arles, Vincent Van Gogh
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MATISSE: Cut,Paste & Taste
That Matisse would abandon oil painting and adopt a new technique so late in his career was a surprise to many people, although it need not have been. Paper cutouts were, of course, convenient for a semi-invalid, but Matisse had … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Derain, Brian O'Doherty, Fauvism, Gertrude Stein, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Henri-Edmond Cross, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Matisse Paper cut-out, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Raoul Dufy, Riva Castleman, Van Gogh
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PICASSO : Distortion and Ruthless attack on GOOD TASTE
Was it just new forms for old feelings? Are new feelings even possible? And were not these forms somehow recycled and repackaged from pre-Christian era civilizations? In any event, the innovations of modern art cannot be explained adequately on formal … Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Green, Clement Greenberg, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Jacques Emile Blanche, John Canaday, John Golding, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leo Steinberg, Michelle Leight, Pablo Picasso, Patricia Leighton, Paul Cezanne, Pete Hamill, Robert Luongo, Roger Fry, Tamar Garb, Van Gogh
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