Tag: Art
Jaeger LeCoultre’s 190-Year Impact—Redefining the Possible in Timekeeping
“The art challenges the technology and the technology inspires the art.” ~John Lassetter, film director “The [Quadriptyque] watch represents Jaeger-LeCoultre’s biggest strengths—its impeccable design sensibilities and supreme technical prowess” ~Neha S. Bajpai Intro & background on Jaeger-LeCoultre This piece will consummate the third installment to my watch review series, examining noteworthy achievements in […]
Symposium: Art, music and the Wagnerian dilemma
Much of modern art since 1900 isn’t about beauty, but has devolved into an unedifying mix of snobbishness, greed, grotesqueness and fetishism, which the intentional fallacy has only made worse. How? Because the New School Critics have legitimized the separation of God from art, goodness from beauty, art from truth, thus much of modern art […]
Picasso: psychotic pervert or iconic genius?
Art is a lie that tells the truth. I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting. ~ Picasso Prologue to Picasso: Psychotic or Iconic? On my Facebook page last week I poised a series of perhaps rhetorical questions regarding the Spanish-French painter, Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). I asked: “Is Picasso a great artistic genius […]
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