24 Nov 2020
Posted by Victor-Katia as Sociological essays, The Danger of Conservative Backlash In US At the End of 20th Century, Uncategorized
Neocons Want to Conserve History In Their Pockets – In Fish cans They always ruled over history. They nurtured and increased their power and wealth throughout human history – those Kings, Dukes, Commanders, Leaders, Bosses, Deciders, billionaires, etc. And they want to continue to accumulate and amass their power and wealth forever. That’s why they […]
05 Sep 2014
Posted by Victor-Katia as “Nathalie Granger” (1972) by Marguerite Duras, Reviews of Films, Uncategorized
“Nathalie Granger” is aesthetico-philosophical opus-film. The strictest logic of its visual images step by step moves us, the viewers, to the feeling that we, while observing the still and harmonious life in a quiet and prosperous household, never expected to get – the feeling of the incompatibility between traditional (over-worldly) spirituality (as it exists and […]
23 Feb 2013
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Films (and stills from the films) analyzed, Ingmar Bergman, Uncategorized
To Be a Victim of Art? – No, To Be a Partner of Art. Love vs. Art? – No, Love As Lover of Art. One must learn to live. I practice every day. My biggest obstacle is I don’t know who I am. I grope blindly. If anyone loves me as I am I may […]
01 Feb 2013
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, George Grosz, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed, Uncategorized
Megalomaniacal Philistines Will Digest Even Crucifixion of Christ For Their Vain and Wasteful Pleasures George Grosz’s “Our Christmas” At first we look at Grosz’ drawing with ease of feeling habitually touched by a guaranteed pleasantness. This is a picture of Christmas celebration in a family like so many others. One year has passed by since […]
05 Aug 2012
Posted by victor as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Giorgio de Chirico, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed, Uncategorized
The Gaze of Existential Love – Women’s Four Positions towards Love Giorgio de Chirico, “Bathers on the Beach”, in “fleshy” coloration By observing five women in front of the background: the sky, the sea and the earth/land, we see the importance of relations between the humans and this background along two axes – vertical (how […]
01 Jan 2012
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Emil Nolde, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed, Uncategorized
Emil Nolde’s Incredible Alchemy of Spirit, Life and Sense Emil Nolde, “Sonnenblumen” (“Sunflowers”), 1930 Who on earth could see the sunflower’s stigma/stybus (the heart or the head) of bright blue color? Usually it is either browning orange or when seeds ripe, black. But Nolde’s intuition has a surprise for us – it perceives the face […]
04 Sep 2011
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Uncategorized
(Totalitarian) Mythologization vs. (Democratic) De-mythologization as Different Ways of Perceiving Reality We all have grown on pompous and beautiful myths. And we continue to react on them with tears of frustrated but still alive hope and with tireless need for unconditional believing. Our minds grow from irrationality like the adult from the child, like sobriety […]
01 Sep 2011
Posted by Victor-Katia as Discussion and Mind-Probing, Emil Nolde, Paintings, sculptures and drawings analyzed, Uncategorized
Adam & Eve Are Not Suffering Too Much about Being Banished (They Have A Substantial Compensation – Genital Embrace) Emil Nolde, “Adam and Eve Banished from Paradise”, 1919 Masaccio, “Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise”, (1424-25) In traditional representation of Paradise Lost the punishing action of the paternal authority is the engine of the plot […]