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Tag Archives: Vincent Van Gogh
surreal values: spiritually adrift in the value traps
In spite of recounting at length her zealotry for “trash” and “kitsch,” which she famously claimed to prefer over serious minded films, Seligman never calls Kael to task for disingenuously backing away from her clarion call of the 1960s. “When … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Clement Greenberg, Diego Rivera, Douglas Cooper, Harold Rosenberg, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Lawrence Alloway, Mark Tobey, max kozloff, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Pauline Kael, Philip Coppens, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Surrealism, Vincent Van Gogh, Wassily Kandinsky
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unconscious aggression: the blind minotaur
“When one has no character, one must have a method.” (Camus ) How can one reconcile such an atrocious human being with art? Unless its an art that glorifies the ugly, the sadistic; an impulse drunk on misogyny that craved … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Clement Greenberg, Douglas Cooper, Friedrich Nietzsche, h. blum, kincaid paintings, Lyonel Feininger, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Richard Wagner, roland penrose, Salvador dali, salvador dali and picasso, Vincent Van Gogh, walter kaufmann
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doctor’s orders
Vincent Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gachet captures the resignation and despair that characterized his last physician. Gachet touches a sprig of foxglove- a medicinal herb symbolic of his profession- and stares with devastating pathos into the void. The doctor’s … Continue reading
tony award
Is painting like acting? According to Christopher Knight there is a strong demand for celebrity art. The idea of modern art lacking aesthetic content and that content being contrived to create a phantom depth does have a connection with acting. … Continue reading
freudian slide into nihilism
Maybe the problem is a mimicry of art historical forms without connecting to the poetic myths that animated and gave life to these forms. That is, the aura of the profound is a falsification in that the depth of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Auguste Rodin, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Rivera, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Jacob Epstein, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kitty garman, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Sigmund Freud, Sir Kenneth Clark, spruiell, Vincent Van Gogh, william grimes
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artfully preserved
The paintings may appear a bit superficial, an air of being quickly rendered and spontaneous, like Bob Ross “deep” , but they were painstakingly and deliberately wrought … Franz Hals is at the Met and the seventeenth-century Dutch master has … Continue reading
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Tagged Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Frans Hals, James McNeill Whistler, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Singer Sargent, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Norman Rockwell, Rembrandt, ROberta Smith New York Times, seymour slive, Vincent Van Gogh, walter liedtke
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muse without meals : manna and madness
The timeless stereotype of the mad artist dies hard. But, sometimes there are a few kernels of truth within the myth, or enough examples to sustain it. It seems axiomatic to state that artists have always, with certain exceptions, been … Continue reading
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Tagged Cindy Sherman, Consumerism, consumerist society, Damien Hirst, daniel celentano, Franz Kafka, gene kelly, Guy Debord, hans abbing, harry hopkins, Jeff Koons, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kafka the hunger artist, kathleen powers erickson, Paul Gauguin, Richard Prince, sherry stern, starving artists, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin, wilfred arnold
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