Well – he has never taught art to others officially, and has never been taught art by others in such a manner …
And while not being entirely sure, if just because or despite of that – Francis Bacon excels as an art (painting) tutor. I found him so lucidly articulated, so continuously and deeply [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘human condition’
October 30, 2009
A seminar with Francis Bacon …
October 24, 2009
Contemporary Art (9) Nathalie Djurberg
Nathalie Djurberg (b. 1978 BirthLysekil, Sweden) – young multimedia artist, lives and works in Berlin. She has won the Silver Lion for a Promising Young Artist at this year’s 53rd Venice Biennale. She was awarded for her multimedia installation “Experiment” (above – first photo shows the work [...]
October 19, 2009
Raffi Lavie: ‘In the Name of the Father’
Raffi Lavie (1937-2007) Late Israeli artist representing Israel at the 53rd International Biennale in Venice.
A painter, educator, art critic, music connoisseur, and curator. The most central, charismatic figure in the art scene in Israel for the past four decades until his death in 2007.
Influenced by Paul Klee, Jean Dubuffet, and Robert Rauschenberg, as well [...]
October 6, 2009
Contemporary Art (7) – Marlene Dumas
“My best works are erotic displays of mental confusions (with intrusions of irrelevant information).”
Marlene Dumas (b. 1953, Cape Town) – one of the most important, influential figurative painters working today.
With Dumas one may easy get into a trap of ‘an infatuated viewer’. Trap she has crafted herself [...]
October 5, 2009
Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Sam Brownback with Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) introduced the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2009.
This legislation works to ensure that our society recognizes the dignity and sacredness of human life.
Creating human-animal hybrids, which permanently alter the genetic makeup of an organism, will challenge the very definition of what it means to [...]
October 5, 2009
Human World – Sensation (1)
SENSATION
A term commonly used to refer to the subjective experience resulting from stimulation of a sense organ, for instance, a sensation of warm, sour, or green. As a general scientific category, the study of sensation is the study of the operation of the senses. Sense receptors are the means by which information presented as one [...]
October 5, 2009
Human vs. Animal (3)
Captivating. Stirring. Uncanny. Bewitching. Bone-chilling.
Nature is genius even or – especially – when it goes wrong…
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October 5, 2009
Human vs. Animal (2)
Anthropomorphobia is the fear of acknowledging in nonhumans qualities we wish to consider only human. Anthropomorphobia is traditionally associated with anxiety responses to fictional animal characters displaying human behavior in works of fiction like “The Secret of NIMH”. However, with the development of androids and robots that mimic human behavior, the concept of anthropomorphobia has [...]
October 5, 2009
Human vs. Animal (1)
Anthropogenic effects, processes or materials are those that are derived from human activities, as opposed to those occurring in biophysical environments without human influence.
The term is often used in the context of environmental externalities in the form of chemical or biological wastes that are produced as by-products of otherwise purposeful human activities.
The term anthropogenic designates [...]
August 5, 2009
New toys of a dirty boy – Eric Fischl
A gifted boy with dirty imagination is back.
Eric Fischl (b. 1948, NY) has apparently abandoned his flamboyant yuppies and bad boys lost in their hedonistic activities on daddies’ yachts and in flashy apartments. Or rather – he grew up with them, since the new characters of his painted stories are middle- aged couples, lost again, [...]
