ARCADIAN FANTASY: Mediterranean State of Mind
One summer early in the twentieth century,Henri Matisse took his family to the seashore. There, in the light of the Mediterranean, a new way of painting came forth. …. Picasso was the one who suggested...
View ArticleHENRI SCISSORHANDS
It was the final flowering of Henri Matisse. He was ever simplifying, ever synthesizing, acting younger at eighty than he was at thirty. He sat in his wheel chair and put aside paintbrush for scissors,...
View ArticlePAPER TIGERS : Hunting Traces of Solitude And GAIETY
In art sometimes, the more things change, the more nothing is the same. The paper cutouts were Matisse’s final flowering; a last expression of this articulation of traces of solitude and gaiety, what...
View Articleour humble abode: serving the pious dandy?
For Antoni Gaudi, as for the devout in the Middle Ages, almost anything in the universe could be read as a religious symbol. The Sagrada Familia is symbolic not only in its profusion of figurative...
View ArticleAn audacity of hope: art non grata?
Or is it an audacity to call it art? Its audacity not to call it art. Peter Alexander Por’s recent exhibit called Persona Non Grata- The Veil of History seemed to rile the back hairs of a large...
View Articledaddy: visionary times of memory
How do you deal with negative recurring themes through your life that end up instilling a deep pessimism? As a woman about choosing a spouse who holds the same detested personality traits as a disliked...
View Articlesynthetic comforters
Blond and blue-eyed blow up dolls for the troops? Combat ready packed with their lunch. But what of the embarrassment if they were captured? And, was the iconic Barbie doll from Mattel based on a...
View ArticleMiro and the Tears of A clown: Harlequin Carnival
“Painting or poetry is made as we make love,” said Joan Miro. His personages are hot- blooded, but they have a sense of decency: they do not like to be caught in the act. And so, even while we have …...
View Articlecompromised complex structures
A de-idealization of the human figure. A coldness. An absence of a humanizing purpose. A bit of spitefulness and the malicious thrown in for effect. Willem de Kooning continues to divide critics and...
View Articledistortion: good from far but far from good
Distortion and fragmentation are the cliches, now almost generic that has come to dominate understanding of the modern figure at a mass level. Maybe it conveys the “creative destruction” of capitalism...
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