This latest artist statement outlines a framework for the artist who is a jewish man – myself. The historical conflict between avant-garde art and tradition is the foremost among other complexities of our collective past that I seek to harmonize in my current work.
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Vision of the Artist in Society /
I once believed that we could all be like artists — heroically discovering our own path (in the Rankian sense). That every individual was a unique factor — in the Jungian sense — able to determine their potentiality into life expression through the development of awareness of what interests & inspires them. I believed in Individuation as a cause. But, I’m not sure I buy that now; I’m not sure that this is enough.
Read MoreThe Nude Body in Art: Charting the Shadowy Beginnings of Art /
In antiquities, there was a social complex between the promiscuity, child-sacrifice, in relation to the great mother archetype, as a totality that induced tensions with various forming cultures and their cults. The hero, as an early masculine identity and myth, is the typology that resists the dissolving effects of the maternal unconscious. The development of moral structures and social codes is strengthened by a concentration on the hero archetype, representing the masculine in the struggle against the maternal unconscious.
Read MoreNYC Art Criticism on Video: Meaning, Beauty & Personality /
With the East Coast of America opening up again, I am pursuing coverage of the art world with videos.
Read MoreThe Nude Body in Art: Introduction & Art Historical Foundation /
A previous article, simply titled, “The Nude Body in Art” is one of the most viewed posts on this website. It is therefore prudent to ask once more: Why is there so much nudity in art? The nude body in art had a special place in history, but there’s a new relationship to the nude body — as well as art itself — today. The history of the nude and of western art itself are, actually, the same. Art of the nude body was a necessary production in order to get in touch with the instincts, but in the new context today, there’s a different relationship to it.
Read MorePolymorphous Paganism in Underground Art Show /
A lover boy with bones of air moves through the evaporating mist after a monsoon that swept through Manhattan on the evening of September 6, 2019. Red light glows from 22 Ludlow St. — is this a mirage? No, this is Alberto H. Arsenberg’s debut solo show in NYC, “Your Kind of Person.”
Read MoreMystic Eros: Chris Ofili at Zwirner and Frieze /
Entering into a stripped down, pristine antique townhouse, and up a flight of spiraling stairs, amongst the dapper Upper East Side milieu, I came upon Ofili’s largish canvas of a green mermaid figure, mysterious, intoxicatingly swimming in bejeweled waters of the deep psyche.
Read MoreGerhard Richter, David Wiseman, The Hudson Yards: The Cultural Realization of The Aesthetic Life /
New York City: Within a few square miles in Chelsea and the new construction in the Hudson Yards, a strange renaissance of contemporary culture and art is flourishing. Amongst all of this, it is hard to tell whether or not the hyper-real and superficial aspects of this renaissance are so excessive that we are doomed, or that, redeemingly, it is rather that these are flaws and areas of gray in a bizarre cultural evolution. However, there is undoubtedly the sensation of a moment in culture that is of great importance.
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