Tag Archives: Claude Joseph Vernet

back to basics: some prefer the sticks

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Dave

We are inclined, mistakenly, to equate happiness with comfort. We can buy comfort, not happiness.Not that long ago,in 1961, 264 inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha, that very uncomfortable subantarctic island, were evacuated to England under a rain of lava from … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Claude Joseph Vernet, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Peter Munch, Peter Munch Crisis in Utopia, Thomas Birch paintings, Tristan da Cunha | Leave a comment

when my ship comes in

Posted on January 18, 2012 by Dave

The perceived incompetence of the ship’s captain.The image of the sinking ship always conjures up other traumatizing images of death by sea. Most notably by one of the pivotal paintings of romanticism, the 1819 “Raft of the Medusa” by Theodore … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Bing Crosby, Captain Schettino, Claude Joseph Vernet, david levi strauss, emily dickinson, gericault raft of the medusa, joan bennett, joel-peter witkin, John Ford, john singleton copley, Julian Barnes, Theodore Gericault, W.C. Fields, Will Rogers, Willard Spiegelman | Leave a comment

A SALTY DOG FLOATS ON

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Dave

‘All hands on deck, we’ve run afloat!’ I heard the captain cry ‘Explore the ship, replace the cook: let no one leave alive!’ Across the straits, around the Horn: how far can sailors fly? A twisted path, our tortured course, … Continue reading →