Tag Archives: Bouguereau

salon not saloon? : against the assaults of boors and madmen

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Dave

In practice the Academy became a closed circle of conventional talents , of men skilled equally in he manipulation of trite formulas for painting and the manipulation of advantageous personal contacts. The situation was deplorable, but it was also inevitable. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Baudelaire, Bouguereau, Claude Lorrain, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Henri Guillaume Schlesinger, Honoré Fragonard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jehan Georges Vibert, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Delaroche, Schlesinger, Sir Edwin Landseer, Theophile Gautier, Vibert, William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Leave a comment

Not in my salon

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Dave

Few styles fell so far into disrepute as the once-prized academic art of the nineteenth-century.Bad as most of it really was, some of it did not deserve the exile it had received. This banishment of French Salon paintings took a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Bouguereau, Duveau, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, French Salon painting, Gustave Courbet, Honore Daumier, Jan Vermeer, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Francois Millet, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Millet, Pierre Auguste Cot, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Leave a comment

ANARCHISTS WHO RUN WITH WOLVES

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Dave

… and occasionally ride camels. Nearly all exponents of anarchism, for example, have used the term to refer to a natural state of society in which people are not governed by submission to humanmade laws or to any external authority. … Continue reading →

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ENEMIES IN ARMS

Posted on December 30, 2009 by Dave

In politics, the revolutionary radical of today regularly becomes the totalitarian Grand Inquisitor of tomorrow. This is no less true in art: institutional and administrative dedication to freedom often produced a rigid conformity.Or as Hannah Arendt once said, ” The … Continue reading →