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Tag Archives: Charles Holme
LOVE NEST: MAD ABOUT HER
The amorous, exuberant George IV, when still Prince Regent, began building a retreat to suit his own fancy. The result was Brighton Pavilion, perhaps the most exotic extravaganza to survive time’s decay. …. Lying in the very heart of Brighton, … Continue reading
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Tagged Beau Brummel, Brighton Pavilion, Charles Holme, Charles James Fox, Fanny Burney, Henry Holland, James Gillray, John Nash, Keira Knightley, Malcolm Charles Salaman, Marianne Faithfull, Martha Gunn, Mrs. Fitzherbert, Nick Cave, Prince Regent George IV, Ralph Fiennes, Saul Dibb, Thomas Rowlandson, William Hogarth
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A COUPLE COOL CATS & HOT RATS
”Introduced to-day to the man who beyond all doubt is the greatest of the age; greatest in every faculty of the imagination, in every branch of scenic knowledge; at once the painter and poet of the day… I found in him … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Music/Composition/Performance, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Charles Holme, Duke Ellington, Duncan Wu, George Wyndham, Goethe, Jeanne Moreau, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, Louis Malle, Miles Davis, Norman Bryson, Ron Rodriguez National Post, Walter Fawkes, William Hazlitt
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ACROSS AN EPIC NOT INTIMATE UNIVERSE
”But Turner—especially in his own last years—was not at all hostile to the incoming empire of technology. Quite the opposite: he believed that the speeding train or the chugging paddle steamer could be turned into a visual lyric that married … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Burke, Carl Jung, Charles Holme, Claude Monet, Goethe, Goethe color theory, Impressionist Art, Jackson Pollock, John Constable, John Elderfield, John Ruskin, Joseph Farington, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Schama, Sigmund Freud, Simon Schama, Stanley Cavell, Thackeray, William Hazlitt, William Parrott
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A COMPLEX HIDDEN SPIRIT:OBSCURED BY THE SUN
Atmospherics, visions and hallucinations. A pathological obsession with light. Turner’s paintings, while both beautiful, and ahead of their time, are still considered to be the black sheep of their time. Their unorthodox nature may have overshadowed his goal of bringing … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Holme, Dan Bischoff, Earl of Egremont, Ed Voves, George Wyndham, Hannah Danby, JMW Turner, John Ruskin, Jon Anderson Yes, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Maev Kennedy, Sarah Danby, Simon Schama, Turner, Yes Fragile, Yes Heart of the Sunrise
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AWAKENED INTO A MYSTIC DARKNESS:THE FALLACY OF HOPE
We were born before the wind Also younger than the sun Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic Hark, now hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Venutolo, Apollo and Daphne, Charles Holme, Christopher Hitchens, Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Dan Bischoff, Earl of Egremont, English Painting, Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Jacopo Sannazaro, JMW Turner, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Kaulbach, Nicolas Poussin, Ovid, Simon Schama, Sir Philip Sidney, Van Morrison, Virgil Thomson, Virgil Thomson Liberty, Walter Fawkes, William Hazlitt
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INTO THE MYSTIC: FOLLOWING A MYSTERIOUS & FUGITIVE LIGHT
Time has told me You’re a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind. And time has told me Not to ask for more Someday our ocean Will find its shore. So I`ll leave the ways that are … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Venutolo, Charles Holme, Claude Lorrain, Dan Bischoff, English Painting, James Lenox, John Constable, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Linda Hayward, Linda Haywood, Michelangelo, Nick Drake, Nick Drake Five Leaves Left, Raphael, Romanticism, Simon Schama, Walter Ramsden Fawkes, William Hazlitt, William Shakespeare
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