Category Archives: Fine Art

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN : LIFE AS POETRY

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Jim Clark

Though it won this year’s Oscar for Best Documentary, Malik Benjelloul’s  Searching for Sugar Man might well have been awarded the Oscar for Best Picture, period. How so? It’s complicated. But let’s make it quick this time. (A full review … Continue reading →

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JEAN COCTEAU: AN ARTIST NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Jim Clark

During the German Occupation of Paris, Jean Cocteau, assisted by his friend, Jean Marais, shook off a decade-long oblivion due to opium addiction, and wrote the script for Robert Bresson’s film, Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne (1944/1945).

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NEW THEATRICALITY—IT’S SO BIG!

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Jim Clark

Throughout its fairly long history, Toronto has been a beacon to those counting on safe bets. Though not altogether a bad thing, it has, until very recently, played out as altogether a boring thing. Capping off a recent plunge to … Continue reading →

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PAUL DELVAUX, MASTER OF SURREALIST GLAMOR

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Jim Clark

When I was in High School, I came upon—by way of Time Magazine, of all things—the paintings of Paul Delvaux.

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A RANGE OF VIOLENCE

Posted on December 21, 2012 by Jim Clark

The recent catastrophe in Connecticut has driven all thoughtful people to reconsider the issue of violence. 

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THE PARIS PAINTINGS OF ALBERT MARQUET

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Jim Clark

Today I want to take a look at how Albert Marquet (1875-1947), a close friend of Henri Matisse and generally regarded as a second-rate practitioner of post-Impressionist painting, found his way to harmonics that still speak to us.

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BOOKS—WHERE ARE THEY GOING?

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Jim Clark

For many centuries, books were the virtually sole way to find out what others in other places were thinking about. Since the dawn of printing, artisans of book design and artisans of discursive design have found indescribable gratification in being … Continue reading →

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PICASSO

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Jim Clark

The name, Picasso, seems to rush us into the imagery of painting, having zipped right past his output of sculpture.

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SURREALIST GRAPHICS by LUCIEN BOUCHER

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Jim Clark

Surrealism stems from French sensibility, that special carnal fastidiousness to be discerned in Impressionist painting (and so many other modern forms of art— Fauve, Cubist and post-Impressionist), Proust, Absurdist theatre and a gamut of design ranging from architecture to cuisine. … Continue reading →

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A LITTLE STORY

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Jim Clark

Here’s a little story that begins in what seems to be firmly fixed in the heart of the performing arts—specifically dance—but actually extends to contemporary fiction, music and the whole galaxy of Surrealism, including Surrealist graphics. In 1986, the great … Continue reading →

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