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Art Guy in Jeans: December 2008
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Art Guy in Jeans. Giving a critical voice to our generation of art viewers. Friday, December 26, 2008. A Christmas Special: 3 Examples in Angel Iconography. Are angels male or female? The Santa Trinita Madonna. Done by the innovative hand of Cimabue in about 1280, depicts a Madonna and child enthroned among saints and angels. Http:/ upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Cimabue Trinita Madonna.jpg. Wings and no wings? My favorite paintings depicting angels are Giotto's "Lamentation" in the Arena Ch...
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Art Guy in Jeans: A Techno-Nightmare on Eastern Pkwy, pt. 2
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Art Guy in Jeans. Giving a critical voice to our generation of art viewers. Saturday, June 16, 2012. A Techno-Nightmare on Eastern Pkwy, pt. 2. There is a hushed gravity in the open halls of the Brooklyn Museum's Egyptian Collection. The precious stone figures and monuments, which still stand in the exact spot they belong, have been digitally stolen and compromised. You must be Art Guy in Jeans," he says to Gus, even though Gus is not wearing jeans, but chinos and a black t-shirt. I understand someone ha...
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Art Guy in Jeans: A Techno-nightmare on Eastern Pkwy, Pt. 1
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Art Guy in Jeans. Giving a critical voice to our generation of art viewers. Monday, October 24, 2011. A Techno-nightmare on Eastern Pkwy, Pt. 1. Our hero and his faithful comrade Gus are meeting for coffee in Brooklyn. The mason marks tell volumes," says Art Guy. "What is the relationship between mason and capomaestro, what's the lingua franca, is the east end sanctuary given priority over the crossing and western parts? I can't remember," says Gus, playing around on his iPhone. Are you listening to me?
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Art Guy in Jeans: February 2010
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Art Guy in Jeans. Giving a critical voice to our generation of art viewers. Thursday, February 18, 2010. In case you wanted a little background on our hero, the story of his life, the source of his powers, here it is. Art Guy was conceived in the Brooklyn Museum on the table of Judy Chicago's A Dinner Party. Art Guy spent his college years very confused. Is post-structuralism a good thing or a bad thing? Is it important that artwork be pretty? If oil and tempera were to duke it out, who would win? Elevat...
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Art Guy in Jeans: An Intercessory Mission, pt. 3 (the missing link).
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Art Guy in Jeans. Giving a critical voice to our generation of art viewers. Saturday, May 1, 2010. An Intercessory Mission, pt. 3 (the missing link). Disclaimer, see M. Foucault, The Order of Things (London, 1970), for much of the following]. Is Icchu Pako aware that he is the missing link? Concerned about the fire, the taxi driver attempts to brake, but the taxi is caught in a slide down a viney embankment. Machu Picchu rises up in the distance. The thought nags him at first but then excites him, the id...
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Art Guy in Jeans: June 2009
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Art Guy in Jeans. Giving a critical voice to our generation of art viewers. Monday, June 8, 2009. The West Phenomenon (part 2). It's a bird,. It's the Death of General Wolfe. The Met Celebrates 238 years of Death of General Wolfe month.". The words are written on the ad banners across the Metropolitan Museum's late neoclassical facade. In fine print it continues, "See 3,200 replicas of the Death of General Wolfe, in order of accession number.". I'm not going in there," says our hero. What's going on here!
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Art Guy in Jeans: October 2009
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Art Guy in Jeans. Giving a critical voice to our generation of art viewers. Tuesday, October 20, 2009. The Courtauld Insitute of Art, an Art Guy update. Well this art guy in jeans is sitting here at the Courtauld Insitute of Art, still persisting in wearing jeans to class. The scholars around me are truly amazing. Let's do a person-by-person account, I will go for the style of James Bond MI6 files. Their names have been idealized for the sake of personal protection and privacy. Fiddlin' Ginevre: Don't be...
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Art Guy in Jeans: June 2012
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Art Guy in Jeans. Giving a critical voice to our generation of art viewers. Saturday, June 16, 2012. A Techno-Nightmare on Eastern Pkwy, pt. 2. There is a hushed gravity in the open halls of the Brooklyn Museum's Egyptian Collection. The precious stone figures and monuments, which still stand in the exact spot they belong, have been digitally stolen and compromised. You must be Art Guy in Jeans," he says to Gus, even though Gus is not wearing jeans, but chinos and a black t-shirt. I understand someone ha...
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Art Guy in Jeans: The People and Art History: an issue of trust
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Art Guy in Jeans. Giving a critical voice to our generation of art viewers. Saturday, July 31, 2010. The People and Art History: an issue of trust. I am Vasari, I lie for the art. I lie for the art for the arts have no tongues. And I'm asking you all at the top of my lungs! What is this field, this field that I see? This field they call art history? You seem to be chopping as fast as you please! See what you've done to my Florentine hierarchy? Unpublished preface to "The Li[v]es of Artists"). And you are...
