Movie: “A Most Violent Year” — business and grit
Recommended. Thanks to Joshua Zader for his recommendation. Here’s the trailer:
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Art
Caspar David Friedrich faces the world
Here is a site devoted to Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), the 19th-century German Romantic painter. The feature image is a portrait of Friedrich by Franz Gerhard von Kugelgen (1772-1820). [More of my art-related posts.]
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Commitment to artistic realism — anecdote
“Philip Ernst, the artist father of the surrealist Max Ernst, was painting a picture of his garden when he omitted a tree that spoiled the composition. Then ‘overcome with remorse’ at his offense against realism, he cut down the tree.” Source: Peter Watson, The German Genius, p. xvii.
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“But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt …
“But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Then to love Bondage more then Liberty, Bondage with ease then strenuous liberty”. John Milton, Samson Agonistes (1671), lines 268-71
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¿Por qué el arte se volvió feo?
Por Stephen R.C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Alejandro Espinoza (Título original, Why Art Became Ugly) Durante mucho tiempo, los críticos del arte moderno y postmoderno han dependido de la estrategia de “Acaso no es aquello repugnante.” Me refiero con esto a la estrategia de señalar que ciertas obras de arte son feas, triviales o de
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Innovation in ballet — and market entrepreneurism
A striking pairing of quotations from Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes by Lynn Garafola (Oxford University Press, 1989). First, on the innovativeness: “In the History of twentieth-century ballet, no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes. It existed for only twenty years—from 1909 to 1929—but in those two decades it transformed
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Michael Newberry on the sublime in art
In this article, Newberry discusses Kant’s theory of the sublime and contrasts it to Aristotle’s and Rand’s aesthetic theories, along the way using modernists and postmodernists such as Duchamp, Manzoni, Hatoum, and Creed as examples, and then giving an extended review of Start Mark Feldman’s The Future in Our Hands sculpture group. Pandora’s Box: The
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The Most Important Artist of the Century [Good Life series]
Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain at the Tate and the challenge to defining art.
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