Monthly Archives: December 2011

Views around Gericault’s Raft of the Medusa as structuralist document of interest in structure structured by interest namely a present account: suggest as well the relation of David Caspar Freidrich, Corot, Watteau… the last named artist created for the Rococo the draftsman’s chronology on a page, misenpage, emptied of incident or panorama with the white [...]

Many medieval texts were dedicated to The Art of Memory and even Abelard made that idea part of his profession…one immediately sees the terms  and as a matter of fact the methods of those texts towards practical development of memory to meet demands of that society which having legalistic tendencies for which the individuals scholarship [...]

Cezanne’s mental note that nature thought itself through him was simpatico to the theme of  16 c philosopher Jakob Baume who argued Godhead could not know self: as such  preceeding that activity of the record, and humanity and the creation were in a space outside of God that provided a reflection from out of conflict [...]

The drawing has a manifesto like quality- we all probably have one good manifesto left in us… Rather than give a series of negative definitions towards a Modern Academy which would be an excellent idea I will try to be specific. The idea draws on the ideas of Rhizome as a map or modular like [...]

I was surprised to read through a Robert Smithson article  ” What Really Spoils the Sculpure of Michelangelo in which he uncharacteristically turned to a demigod of the past with considerable acceptance stating essentially that the scuptor had a genuine sense of abstraction preferable to much abstract art that is actually realistic/illusionist in essence but [...]