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seine: inseinity
What was it while gazing at the Seine that Verlaine came upon his definition of water,”that impure liquid, a drop of which is enough to spoil the transparency of absinthe.” ? What was it about the Seine that attracted so … Continue reading
balzac: from appearance into essence
Rodin’s memorial to Balzac, the great writer offended decency, and the prevailing taste of the public and a good part of the French establishment. Auguste Rodin’s statue of Honore de Balzac is an imaginary figure, conceived and sculptured half a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Falguiere, Auguste Renoir, Charles Baudelaire, Dreyfus Affair, Emile Zola, Eugene Delacroix, Georges Rodenbach, Hector Berlioz, Henri Chapu, Honore de Balzac, Pablo Picasso, Rainer Maria Rilke
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steal, conceal, & no deal : Blood Canvas
The theft of Art from occupied and conquered countries by the Nazis has been well-documented, and the complex legal issues in the recovery of stolen art, and legal title continues to be an emotional and divisive issue that touches more … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anthony F. Anderson, Auguste Renoir, Bess Hormats, Claude Manet, Colin Woodward, Edouard Manet, Edward Elicofon, Egon Schiele, Francisco Goya, Greg Bradshaw, Harry Gursky, Leo Tolstoy, Lynn Nicholas, Marc Chagall, Matilda Battersby, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Paul Hirschkorn, Priam's Treasure of Ancient Troy, Rembrandt, Richard B. Jackson, Rob Cameron, Robert E. Lester, Robert M. Edsel, Toledo Museum of Art, Wassily Kandinsky
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BONNARD: INTIMATE ESCAPE Into Charged Psychological Moments
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was not a revolutionary artist but he synthesized several different styles to create works of striking painterliness and memorably glorious color. He borrowed a lightness from the Impressionists, a bold palette from the Post-Impressionists and Fauves, a compressed … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambrose Vollard, Auguste Renoir, Carter B. Horseley, Cornelia Lauf, Dr. Francis V. O'Connor, Edgar Degas, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, Graham Dickson, Henri Matisse, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, jack Flam, Karen Wilkin, Mark Rothko, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Svetlana Alpers, Tony Thomas
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IMPOSSIBLE WORLD: DISILLUSIONED SOULS AS A REFRAMED VALUE
Jean Antoine Watteau( 1684-1721) was thirty-three when he painted “Embarkation” . Two years later in 1719 he went to London to sonsult Dr. Richard mead, the queen’s physician, and was there subjected to such treatment as the best medical knowledge … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Crozat, Auguste Renoir, Calvin Seerveld, Camille Mauclair, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Donald Posner, Edouard Manet, Etienne Jeurat, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Frederic Chopin, Georgia Cowart, Helene Adhemar, Jakob Rosenberg, James Panero, Jean Baptiste Francois Pater, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Karen Rosenberg, Kit Andrews, Lancret, Lisa MacDonald, Martha Rosler, Mary D. Sheriff, Mary Vidal, Monika Szewczyk, Nicolas Lancret, Perrin Stein, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Crozat, Pierre Rosenberg, R.H. Wilenski, René Huyghe, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Thomas Crow, Walter Pater
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MANET & MORISOT: AMBIGUITY BETWEEN PLEASURE AND DESIRE
“For Realist painters at mid-century, the experience of the senses was not something to be allegorized. It was something to be given to the viewer full-on. Such a statement became a philosophical position. It was part of the materialist view of the world … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Higonnet, Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Charles Baudelaire, Daniel Rosenfeld, David Halperin, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, George Heard Hamilton, George Moore, Henri Matisse, John Rewald, Lin Arison, Lisa MacDonald, Michel Foucault, Nancy Locke, Neil Folberg, Paul Alexis, Paul Valery, Shane Adler Davis, Suzanne Leenhoff, Tim Marlow, Victorine Meurent
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REAL IMPRESSIONS: NOBLESSE OBLIGE LESS
In contrast with Post-Impressionism and the avant-garde trends of the twentieth century the painters of French Naturalism and Impressionism rarely gave verbal expression to their aesthetics. “The most solid base for the work of art is reality constantly studied.” ( … Continue reading
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Tagged Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Beth Archer Brombert, Camille Mauclair, Camille Pissarro, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Frédéric Bazille, George Heard Hamilton, George T. Noszlopy, Gustave Caillebotte, Gustave Courbet, Gustave Flaubert, Gustave Moreau, Julie Lorenzen, Kate Flint, Manet Olympia, Marcelin Desboutin, Monty English, Pater the Dutchman, Philbert Louis Debucourt, Stephane Mallarme, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, Victorine Meurent
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BEHIND THE NONCOMMITTAL GAZE
Who else? Who but the well bred, courteous Edouard Manet could have put before an astonished public the “female gorilla”, that “gamy courtesan” Olympia? Public and critics were for once unanimous. There could be no two ways about it: Manet … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Antonin Proust, Auguste Renoir, Berte Morisot, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Julie Lorenzen, Mallarme, Manet Olympia, Rembrandt, Stephane Mallarme, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Victorine Meurent
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