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Still @ it, DelARTe 2019
(MMXIX)
"Écrasez l'infâme" - to quote Voltaire
Well, everybody is all a-twitter about the implications of
face manipulation. Moreover it's a program by a Russian firm:
FaceApp, inspired, no doubt, by the recent nuclear melt down
in Russia and from the, still melting, Chernobyl accident.
This clearly does not concern our president (also known as the "Moskau Mule"
who's family is benefiting from nuclear sales to Saudi Arabia)
So, we're going into space to make a even more costly mess out there?
To boldly mess where no one messed before?!
DelARTe
from previous years - recent DelARTe.com samplers:
Covering
approx.: 2019A 2018
2017
2016 2014 and more
Make sure to probe for
active links inside all these images.
Talking about
the holy crown of St. Istvan:
After
reading several thousands of words written by the
supposed experts,
I found
that all participants basically conclude and agree
upon
that
they don’t know why the cross on top of the Hungarian crown is
tilted.
Given
the state of the art I too would like to add my theory to the fray:
The cross is seated on the top of the crown
by design
(which
appears to be verified by various scientific
examinations).
I
therefore submit that the notion of putting the cross at an
angle
hearkens back to an eastern European and Mideastern
concept, where the display of perfection
is considered blasphemous
and
therefore a deliberate flaw must be inserted to
a display, humble
deference to a higher authority for whom perfection is reserved.
The
wearer of the crown with the tilted cross humbly
defers
perfection to a yet
higher authority, namely to God.
Your link to a Heinrich von Kleist story in English.
Or go to the menu options by clicking this line and scroll down to the Heinrich von Kleist entry.
Vienna at night:
experimental (?) linoleum relief cut
(possibly a layout or a proposal.)
Mirrored
for your viewing ease
Amazing what can
sometimes be found at a flea market.
Cabaret "Simple" can still be seen in Vienna, Austria.
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (FXM):
Click the picture above for an
article in the Paris Review about
Friedrich Nikolai's travel
account on meeting with FXM
translated and written by Herb Ranharter.
Otherwise see my legacy
pages about Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
(Art history vs Art, vs the
Museum.)
You and many others have often
wondered why there is so much
“crap”
on the walls of museums you have
visited, leaving you wanting for better
quality
to meet your expectations. Well,
this might be an explanation of how
this perception,
that is vexing so many of us, came
to be: Much of what hangs on museum
walls
is not
necessarily good art, but is, more often than not, simply part of Art
History.
E.g.: the evolution
of artistic expression. As such it reveals the development of
an
artist’s
progress and very often reveals what
the museum can afford to purchase
of an artist’s legacy. It would be silly to assume that every artist
has fully worked
at the peak of their artistic achievements throughout their carrier.
Only the mediocre work at their
full peak of performance at all times!
Much of what constitutes an
artist’s oeuvre
is the struggle for surmounting
his or her conceptual difficulties
and developing
the skills required to make a
satisfactory whole of what plagues
his or her mind and to bring the final
results to the appreciation of an
audience.
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