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Monthly Archives: August 2010
THE BEAST OF THE EAST:MELODRAMA OF MORALS
“Many of Griffith’s features suffer from sententious moralizing, a sense of God speaking to the masses, and outright racism. But Way Down East highlights the greatness of Griffith without having to sit through the Sermon on the Mount or the … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged A. Nicholas Vardac, Anthony Paul Kelly, Charlie Chaplin, D.W. Griffith, D.W. Griffith Way Down East, David Kehr, David Wark Griffith, Hal Erickson, James Agee, John Steinle, Joseph R. Grismer, Lillian Gish, Lottie Blair Parker, Paul Brenner, Sergei Eisenstein, Tim Dirks, V.I. Pudovkin, Vardac, William A. Brady
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A KINDER & GENTLER NATION?
Let us be lovers we’ll marry our fortunes together I’ve got some real estate here in my bag So we bought a pack of cigarettes and Mrs. Wagner’s pies And we walked off to look for America Cathy I said … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged American Cinema history, Bert Sommer, D.W. Griffith, D.W. Griffith Way Down East, Dave Kehr, David Wark Griffith, Eric Bentley, Eugene O'Neill, Henri Matisse, John Steinle, Joseph R. Grismer, Lottie Blair Parker, Pablo Picasso, Paul Brenner, Paul Simon, Satie, Stravinsky, William A. Brady
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DESOLATION IN THE SHADOWS OF REALITY
His range may have been a narrow one, but within its limits he was one of the most sincere painters this country has seen. He was the first who attempted with success to place nature upon canvas with pigments that … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, C.J. Holmes, Claude Monet, Constable, Edouard Manet, Goethe, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, London Royal Academy of Arts, Luke Howard, Paul Cezanne, Percy Shelley, Royal Academy, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Van Gogh
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AN ABHORRENCE FOR GLOSSY MIRACLES OF TECHNIQUE
“It was a real learning experience,” she recalls, “to sit for hours with great paintings and get inside an artist’s head to see the logic of how he put the painting together.” Reflecting upon earlier artists who have influenced her … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged C.J. Holmes, Charles Nodier, Cuyp, English Landscape painting, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Fisher, John R. Kemp, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, London Royal Academy of Arts, Maria Bicknell, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard McKinley, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Susan Downy-White, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth
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DISTINCT FROM THE AMBIANCE OF HISTORY
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin West, Claude Lorrain, David Wilkie, Dr. Johnson, English Landscape painting, George Crabbe, Gerald E. Finley, Handel, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Martin, John Sunderland, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, Leslie Pyke, London Royal Academy of Arts, Peter Paul Rubens, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stephen Prickett, Thomas Gainsborough, William Wordsworth
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ONCE YOU GET THE HANG OF IT
“I experimented with knife throwing as a consequence of writing Absinthe and Flamethrowers. It’s quite entertaining and I’ve been recommending knife throwing anyone who’ll listen (well, almost anyone.) It’s much different experience than, say, throwing pub darts. To me, one … Continue reading
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Tagged African Knives, Elizabeth Collins, Gabriel Got, Impalement arts, James Bond, John Petherick, John Rethnick, Knife throwing, Knife throwing in circus, Leon Sioto, Martin Collins, Patrick Mcnaughton, Peter Lorre, Pitt Rivers, Roger Moore James Bond, William Gurstelle
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SELF DOUBTS OF A RELENTLESS PERFECTIONIST
The similarity in the approaches to landscape taken by the geographer and the landscape painter have been acknowledged since the first half of the nineteenth century. Both are committed to developing coherent descriptions of he surface of the earth in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Lyles, David Watts, J.T. Smith, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, K. Paul Johnson, London Royal Academy of Arts, Marion Maneker, Martin Gayford, Michael Kitson, Monty English, Paul Johnson, Peter Paul Rubens, Roger Fry, Ronald Rees, Royal Academy, Sir George Beaumont, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, William Wordsworth
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