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Tag Archives: Alexandre Cabanel
the undraped: Of anecdotal interest
There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Cabanel Birth of Venus, Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Emperor Napoleon III, French Salon Art, John Wolfe banker, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rosa Bonheur, Sarah Bernhardt, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Sir Edwin Landseer
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full circle
Sometimes things become intertwined in a full circle that initially escapes us since the assumed understanding is based on enlightenment principles guided by the linear progression of science and technology where evolution is rational and explainable. In Donald Kuspit’s The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Edward Landseer, Francis Bacon, French Salon painting, Jean Leon Gerome, Jeff Koons, Madame Pickwick, Marcel Duchamp, Marquis de Sade, Norman Rockwell, odd nerdrum, Sarah Bernhardt
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the undraped: Of anecdotal interest
There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Andrew Graham Dixon, Edouard Manet, Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, French Salon painting, Jean Leon Gerome, Jehan Georges Vibert, John Wolfe, Manet Olympia, Rosa Bonheur, Sir Edwin Landseer, Titian Venus of Urbino, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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SALON DES LEFTOVERS: WHO’S FOR LUNCH?
He strove only for official recognition; he never thought of himself as making a protest, overthrowing the art of the past, or creating a new order. Yet that is exactly what he did: Edouard Manet, the reluctant revolutionary. Edouard Manet, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Corot, Edgar Degas, Edmond Maitre, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Frédéric Bazille, Gustave Caillebotte, Joel Isaacson, John Wolfe, Marie Mockett, Melissa Yue, Meyer Schapiro, Otto Scholderer, Pisarro, Pissaro, Salon des Réfuses, Zacharie Astruc
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AN AURAL EROTIC:DRUNK WITH PASSION
It was infinite ecstasy with ”la belle dame sans merci”. By the time of Berlioz’s ”Symphonie Fantastique” , he had won the Conservatoire’s Prix de Rome, a five year fellowship that entailed two years of residence at the French Academy … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Bach, Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz, Byron Childe Harolde, Camille Moke, Courbet, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Franz Liszt, Goethe, Harriet Smithson, Hector Berlioz, J.H. Eliot, John William Waterhouse, Lord Byron, Mozart, Niccolo Paganini, Pleyel Pianos, Richard Wagner, Shakespeare, The Berlioz Enigma J.H. Eliot, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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