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Tag Archives: Van Gogh
PROTOCOL OF BEHAVIOR :Aesthetics Of Within And Without
The most important effect of his great work was its direct contradiction to the dogma of the Catholic church to that time. He was condemned by the church and his books burned. After all, he had come out and said … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Berel Lang, Comte de Buffon, David Carrier, David Lee Rubin, Dieter Roelstraete, Donald Posner, Holland Cotter New York Times, Jacques Derrida, James Burke, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, John Weretka, Ken Ireland, Mary Vidal, Michel Foucault, Norman Bryson, Pieter Vermeersch, Remy G. Saisselin, Susan Leigh Foster, Van Gogh, Vincent Van Gogh
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BONNARD & LIBERATED FROM GRAVITY: ENDLESS SUMMER
The intense freshness of “the first moving instant vision” provoked by an object. But actually to copy that object increased the distance from that vision. There is always the danger,Pierre Bonnard felt, of the artist’s becoming caught by the incidentals … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Derain, Anna Hammond, Carter B. Horseley, Cornelia Lauf, Daniel Richter, Dita Amory, Dr. Francis V. O'Connor, Edgar Degas, Egon Schiele, Fauvism, Francis Bacon, Glenn D. Lowry, Graham Nickson, Greg Lindquist, Henri Matisse, Henry James, jack Flam, John Elderfield, Karen Wilkin, Maurice Denis, Nicholas Serota, Paul Cezanne, Peter Doig, Pierre Bonnard, Rembrandt, Ron Milewicz, Rothko, Ryan McGinness, Sarah Whitfield, Svetlana Alpers, Tony Thomas, Van Gogh
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DESOLATION IN THE SHADOWS OF REALITY
His range may have been a narrow one, but within its limits he was one of the most sincere painters this country has seen. He was the first who attempted with success to place nature upon canvas with pigments that … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, C.J. Holmes, Claude Monet, Constable, Edouard Manet, Goethe, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, London Royal Academy of Arts, Luke Howard, Paul Cezanne, Percy Shelley, Royal Academy, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Van Gogh
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PORTRAIT OF A TUG OF WAR
Not every great age produced portraits. The Greeks made almost none, except on their coins, until the time of Alexander the Great, whose legions ranged over the world from India to Egypt. Alexander had his own private portrait artist, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander the Great, Augustus John, Cezanne, Claude Manet, Claude Monet, Daguerre, Frederigo da Montefeltro, Graham Sutherland, Ivan Albright, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, Joseph E. Widener, Karsh photographs, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lysippus Sculptor, Mrs. Leigh Block, National Gallery of Art Washington, Picasso, Piero della Francesca, Rembrandt, Titian, Van Gogh, Velasquez, Vincent Van Gogh, Winston Churchill, Yousef Karsh
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STREET ART DOWN PAVEMENT LESS TRAVELED
Jean Dubuffet ( 1901-1985 ) was one of the few artists devoted to ”keeping it real” and this involved a deliberately anti-psychological and anti-personal approach to art.All of his work stands aesthetically somewhere between the beautiful and the awkward, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Antonin Artaud, Claes Oldenburg, Dubuffet, French Pop Art, Frieze magazine, Gary Panter, Gaugin, Jean Dubuffet, Julian Schnabel, Keith Haring, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Maurice de Vlaminck, Mike Kelley, pop art, Robert Rauschenberg, Sophie Berrebi, Van Gogh
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ENEMIES IN ARMS
In politics, the revolutionary radical of today regularly becomes the totalitarian Grand Inquisitor of tomorrow. This is no less true in art: institutional and administrative dedication to freedom often produced a rigid conformity.Or as Hannah Arendt once said, ” The … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Bouguereau, Cabanel, Cezanne, Charles Dickens, Edward Hopper, Ernst, Frank Norris, Guggenheim, Hannah Arendt, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Tinguely, Joan Miro, John Chamberlain, Manet, Mark Twain, Matisse, Max Ernst, miro, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Peter Blume, Picasso, Renoir, Thomas Hart Benton, Van Gogh
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Art of Alienation
Does alienation have a predefined or finite limit after which death writes its inevitable postscript? Can it become an all-consuming identity; part of a core genetic makeup? Is victimhood a path forged on the basis of free will, or a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertholt Brecht, Brecht, Felix Nussbaum, Felka Nussbaum, German Expressionism, James Ensor, Mark Jenkins, Van Gogh
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Seraphine & Mystical Inner Visions
Hypnotic art. A relationship between an avant-garde art dealer and a visionary cleaning lady. There is a mystery of creativity and the resilience of one woman’s spirit. It is also a marginalized artist and deeply eccentric individual presented as a … Continue reading