Category Archives: art

Testosterone and Art

Posted on November 29, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

A very interesting article published on her blog by Nathalia J Calderon. It’s about testosterone levels and art – not sure I quite agree about the conclusion! http://nathaliajcalderon.wordpress.com//?s=testosterone&search=Go  

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Caprice

Posted on September 20, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

There was an old man who said, ‘Hush! I perceive a young bird in this bush! When they said – ‘Is it small?’ He replied – ‘Not at all! It is four times as big as the bush!’   xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(Edward … Continue reading →

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Grotesque: Ancient and Modern

Posted on August 8, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

“In the famous Kerch terracotta collection we find figurines of senile pregnant hags. Moreover, the old hags are laughing. This is a typical and very strongly expressed grotesque.  It is ambivalent.  It is pregnant death, a death that gives birth.  … Continue reading →

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IMMORALISM

Posted on July 17, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

  And having thus created me, Thus rooted me, he bade me grow Guiltless forever, like a tree That buds and blooms, nor seeks to know The law by which it prospers so …   André Gide refers to these … Continue reading →

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Lars Elling

Posted on July 9, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

  Interesting artist! More about him at http://www.larselling.no/

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Fetishism and the Uncanny

Posted on July 7, 2014 by anthonyhowelljournal

Remember how the media presented Roentgen’s discovery of X-rays towards the end of the last century: the idea was that X-rays allow us to see a person who is still alive as if he were already dead, reduced to a … Continue reading →

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‘Nonfinito’ or the Art of Incompletion

Posted on December 9, 2013 by anthonyhowelljournal

Nonfinito or the Art of Incompletion “Infinity, though of another kind, causes much of our pleasure in agreeable, as well as of our delight in sublime images. The spring is the pleasantest of the seasons; and the young of most … Continue reading →

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Grandeur versus the Sublime

Posted on July 30, 2013 by anthonyhowelljournal

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said:  “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of … Continue reading →

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Quietism, the ‘vacancy’ of Formal Art

Posted on July 27, 2013 by anthonyhowelljournal

 xxxxxxx           6.42    And so it is impossible for there to be propositions of ethics.           Propositions can express nothing that is higher.                    6.421  … Continue reading →

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ART AND ITS DARK SIDE – INTRODUCTION

Posted on July 6, 2013 by anthonyhowelljournal

Art and its Dark Side – The Eight Rivers of Art A series of eight essays dealing with the ‘rivers of art’ – creative concerns which have the abiding power to preoccupy artists and writers, and which have always had … Continue reading →

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