Tag: Gods and Giants
A weblog reports Chris Rock's remarks on Saturday Night Live this past weekend: "It’s America, we commercialize everything. Look at what we did to Christmas. Christmas. Christmas is…
You and I … we are just like a couple of tots… — Sinatra JOSEFINE LYCHE Born 1973 in Bergen. Lives and works in Oslo. Education 2000 – 2004 National…
Steve Pond on "Crazy Heart" — "… this gentle little movie… is, after all, a character study– and in an alcoholic country singer named Bad Blake, we’ve got…
Battle of Gods and Giants, Part III: The Invisible Made Visible From today's New York Times: "Leon Golub, an American painter of expressionistic, heroic-scale figures that reflect dire…
Battle of Gods and Giants, Part II: Wonders of the Invisible World Yesterday at about 5 PM I added a section titled "Invariants" to the 3:01 PM entry…
Battle of Gods and Giants In checking the quotations from Dante in the previous entry, I came across the intriguing site Gigantomachia: "A gigantomachia or primordial battle between the…
Ideas and Art — Motto of Plato's Academy From Minimalist Fantasies, by Roger Kimball, May 2003: All I want anyone to get out of my paintings,…
Invariants "What modern painters are trying to do, if they only knew it, is paint invariants." — James J. Gibson in Leonardo (Vol. 11, pp. 227-235. Pergamon Press…