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Tag Archives: Charles Le Brun
consequences: scrambling with the brutes
…To some the implications of Darwin’s theory were negative and desolating. The whole earth no longer proclaimed the glory of the Lord. Paradoxically, in revealing the closeness of man’s link with the rest of creation, Darwin seemed to have cut … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Russell Wallace, Alfred Wallace naturalist, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin Theory of Evolution, Charles Le Brun, Gregor Mendel, Immanuel Kant, John Dalton, Julian Huxley, Karl Marx, Linley Sambourne, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, pierre teilhard de chardin
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pining for the grey elysium
Can an artist be beyond the reach of criticism because they have been so institutionalized and commodified by the taste makers of celebrity? Are we buying the talent, the art or the brand, like the steak and sizzle distinction. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, bertram lewin, Charles Le Brun, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Velazquez, james kalm, Jasper Johns, Lawrence Alloway, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, w.r. bion, Walter Benjamin, willem de Kooning
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poverty: robbery assault and flattery
Is it right for heart to be too often in the right place? The epitome of the bleeding heart liberal.Can pity be the artists worst enemy? John Galsworthy’s father became a lawyer but thought little of that dusty profession in … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Le Brun, Corot, Edouard Manet, france revolution 1848, French Political Satire, GOP leadership, Gov. Rick Perry, harriet cohen, Honore Daumier, John Galsworthy, john noble, martin luther king monument, Myra Hess, Nicolas Poussin, Obama jobs plan, Rabbi Joshua Abraham Heschel, The Affordable Care Act, u.s. poverty statistics
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WATTEAU:EMBEDDED LANGUAGE AS AN ART OF LIVING
There is always two contradictory dimensions which Watteau’s paintings contain. On the one hand there is melancholy pleasure signifying sadness, the metaphysics of pleasure; on the other hand, a libertine pleasure without any metaphysical meaning, pleasure which signifies only itself: … Continue reading
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Tagged André Campra, Antoine Crozat, Antoine Houdard de la Motte, Charles Le Brun, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Gérard de Nerval, Jacques Callot, Jean Antoine Houdard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mary D. Sheriff, Mary Vidal, Michael Levey, Michel Foucault, N.F. Karlins, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Crozat, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Sev, Thomas Crow, Thomas Gainsborough, Titian, Walter Pater, Watteau, William Hogarth
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BEAUTY & THE BEAST DEPENDING ON THE PHYSIQUE
”Every human face is a hieroglyph which can be deciphered, indeed whose key we bear ready-made within us” ( Schopenhauer ) From the ancients onward, Europeans in particular have puzzled over the face, devising methods for interpreting its secret language. … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine Coysevox, Aristotle, Arthur Schopenhauer, Charles Darwin, Charles Le Brun, Charles White, Francis Galton, Giovanni Battista della Porta, Haeckel, Lucy Hartley, Michael Foster, Monsieur Nivelon, Nick Hopwood, Patricia Magli, Physiognomy, The Kinks, Therese Davis, Thierry Poncelet
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AT THE ZOO
Someone told me It’s all happening at the zoo. I do believe it, I do believe it’s true. Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Whoooa. Mmmmm. The monkeys stand for honesty, Giraffes are insincere, And the elephants are kindly but They’re dumb. Orangutans are … Continue reading
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Tagged Aristotle, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, Charles Le Brun, George Orwell, George Orwell Animal Farm, Giovanni Battista della Porta, Great Chain of Being, Hall of Mirrors, J.J. Granville, Jean Racine, Louis XIV, Louise de La Valliere, Nicolas Poussin, Petrus Camper, Pierre Corneille, Seigneur Colbert, Sigmund Freud, Thierry Poncelet
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