Tag Archives: Wassily Kandinsky

t.s. eliot: obsessed with meat

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Dave

T.S. Eliot a reactionary? The charges of fascism were of course brought against Eliot, and also against Yeats, Lawrence, Pound, and Wyndham Lewis for that ,matter, part of the romantic tug towards purity and blood one can imagine, the kind … Continue reading →

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universe as mind stuff: mystifying the expectations

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Dave

…The legitimacy of an idea is often a matter of culture. Thus, in the West, we greet the notion of cyclic time with deep unease- partly because it is unfamiliar and partly because the concept of linear time running away … Continue reading →

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bohemia on central park west

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Dave

Art mirrored life and vice-versa in painter John Koch’s polished household, a milieu that was as far from a traditional garret as one could get… About eighty New York blocks separated the sumptuously appointed fourteen-room apartment of the painter John … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Gide, Andre Malraux, Ania Dorfman, Dora Zaslavsky, Grady Turner, Harold Bauer, Hilton Kramer, Jean Cocteau, Johan Zoffany, John Koch, Leo Lerman, Maurice Grosser, Mrs. Edgar Feder, Raphael Soyer, Wassily Kandinsky, William Backhaus | Leave a comment

buddenbrooks syndrome

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Dave

The Guggenheims, father and sons, amassed nearly a quarter of a billion dollars in rather less than fifty years. The money was longer in the spending, but in the process some of the family displayed a disposition to take remarkable … Continue reading →

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the long and winding ramp

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Dave

War on the fine arts. Frank Lloyd Wright definitely had a chip on his shoulder and it manifested itself on a war on the fine arts. He began as a foe of the academicism, orthodox teachings, and this later festered … Continue reading →

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a brake on the yellow

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Dave

I am curious yellow. The taxi as an orgone box. Orgone energy, according to Wilhelm Reich, organizes itself into matter. He believed that when earth is made to swell by boiling or autoclavation, orgone energy is released from the fragmentation and … Continue reading →

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back to the salon: trititude and tritism

Posted on March 24, 2012 by Dave

A labored avant-garde, hack mediocrity, tired formula and mixing the sauce on old recipes resulting in a living fabric of life being transposed into a theatrical event? Its possible the avant garde today is decoration catering to mediocre tastes much … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Jacques Ranciere, jean-louis meissonier, jean-louis picard, Joseph Beuys, Kazimir Malevich, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, marshall berman, Peter Burger, peter watson, Sir Edwin Landseer, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

children should be painted and not herd

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Dave

Salon painting.And children. Sympathy for the poor things with an equally normal but less open response to their charms. Unlike Salon painting of women who were usually lashed to a stake, tortured or languishing in prisons condemned to sleeping on … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Charles Baudelaire, coventry patmore, emil munier, ferdinand waldmuller, French Salon painting, John Everett Millais, john george brown, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

fascination with opposites

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Dave

….a fascination with opposites. The theory that no quality or trait in art can enjoy an independent existence without being dependent on a contrary. When you look at George Segal and Meyer Schapiro its very much a glimpse into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged ernst kirschner, George Segal, Marcel Duchamp, Max Horkheimer, Meyer Schapiro, Pablo Picasso, The Frankfurt School, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

not the same dust

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Dave

There is a struggle between darkness and light, day and night that goes back to earliest antiquity. Kandinsky wrote about this ability to find the “in between” that would reconcile the two in his “Spiritual in Art.” But Germany? Its … Continue reading →