Tag Archives: Winslow Homer

romance with terror

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Dave

To acknowledge the power of the irrational. A kind of spiritual revolt of unhappy souls who in a negative sense become overwhelmed with the powers of ideology and terror, producing the perfect recipe for what Hannah Arendt defined as the … Continue reading →

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spinoza of supermarket street: keeping the rules?

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Dave

Imperfection. Logic, and a strong dose of rationality dictates that God, according to the Jewish definition, is non existent, or at best, absent when needed most. Yet mixed with this certainty of doubt is often a personal belief, a sort … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Baruch Spinoza, Hieronymous Bosch, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Martin Buber, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

fiscal cliffs and financial stiffs

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Dave

…The end is near. Doomsday scenario targeting that source of perennial anxiety and trauma: The management of the American economy; now in terms of integrity officially in a recession, a double-dipper with the entire money and banking system, the money … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Allan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, Dai Dudu, Fiscal Cliff United States, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Guy Debord, henri Lefebvre, Hieronymous Bosch, James Rickards currency wars, Li Tiezi, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Paul Krugman, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Winslow Homer, Zhang An | Leave a comment

tweet: in your eyes

Posted on November 29, 2012 by Dave

Not expressed in an articulate manner, but there is something unsettling about Rupert Murdoch’s tweet on the Jewish owned press. The Left jumped on his as an anti-Semite,and for the Yid lefties it was kettle black time, but in fact … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Breibart, David Hamelech Street Hevron, Gene Wilder, Hevron graffiti, James Alexander Walker, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mehdi Hasan, Rupert Murdoch, Stephen Pollard Jewish Chronicle, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

sign of the times

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Dave

The Sign Museum in Ohio as sign of the times….The love of looking back but an equal fascination with what Joseph Schumpeter called the creative destruction of capitalism. And if there is anything Americans dislike, its the status-quo, albeit the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged American Sign Museum Cincinnati, Barack Obama 2012, ed koch, Jeremy Bird Obama, Joe Scarborough Fox, Joseph Schumpeter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michael Lewis Obama's Way, Mitt Romney 2012, Nate Silver, Nate Silver pollster, Paul Krugman, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

muse and the economy

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Dave

Or is it the economy and the muse? When individuals are fighting tooth and nail for a living, they look on the arts as a thing apart. Has our affluent society today carried over some of this disdain into a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhl business art, Andy Warhol, Arnold Hauser, Bob Diamond Barclays, Clement Greenberg, Damien Hirst, David Geffen art collection, Donald and Mera Rubells, Donald Kuspit, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Gustav Klimt, Hobbema, Jan Steen, jeffrey deitch, Jerry Saltz, john singleton copley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Meyer Schapiro, Peter Plagens, Steven A. Cohen, Timothy Geithner, Van Goyen painter, willem de Kooning, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

its always money in philadelphia

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Dave

Philadelphia. It’s always had a peculiar character about it; an aristocracy of old families, Quaker in conscience if not in religion or taste… “Philadelphia,” wrote George Biddle in his autobiography, ” has its own breed of integrity. It believes in … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale, Eakins, George Biddle, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mary Cassat, mary cassatt, Raphael Soyer, Thomas Eakins, William Penn, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

philadelphia story

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Dave

Philadelphia is there alright; America’s fifth largest city and second, though inland, seaport. It was founded by William Penn in the name of God as a refuge for a persecuted religious sect, inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s dream of the Enlightened … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Benjamin Franklin Philadelphia, Elfreth Alley Philadelphia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Max Schmitt Thomas Eakins, Peter Cooper paintings, Peter Cooper Philadelphia, Philadelphia history, Thomas Eakins, William Penn, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

back to walden pond

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Dave

Rockwell. Norman Rockwell. Kitsch. Sentimental. He helped define American popular culture in a manner almost as influential as Walt Disney. His recreation of a phony artificial world that never existed. A fantasy world tailor made for the peculiar form that … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Bernard Williams philosopher, David Bowie, Harold Bloom, Jack Levine, James McNeil Whistler, Norman Rockwell, Sigmund Freud, Werner Fassbinder, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

imagination: leaving the gray elysium

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Dave

An ambivalence to life reflected nowhere more so than the child’s relationship to memory, at once complete, graphic and epic yet vague, blurry and unfinished. And why not, given the facility to escape, to flee at one’s leisure the fairytale … Continue reading →