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Tag Archives: Claude Monet
like father like fun
…the almost unknown collection of the grand old man of impressionism was left to an equally unknown museum. At the death of Michel Monet, in 1966, the only son of Claude Monet, the officials knew they were going to get … Continue reading
legacy: last manners
Michel Monet’s rich legacy of art had been casually, not to say carelessly, stacked about his house since 1926. His own tastes ran to hunting trophies and garish African souvenirs. The inheritors had to scramble from attic to cellar, and … Continue reading
dreyfus: when was the fix not in?
Unfortunately, the after-shocks of the Dreyfus Affair are still with us, over a hundred years until he was finally exonerated in 1906. The dilemma of government secrecy in the in the so-called national interest and the whole ugly stench of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Captain Alfred Dreyfus, Charles Maurras, Claude Monet, Edouard Drumont, Emile Zola, Jacqueline Rose LRB, Jeffrey Mehlman, Justice Michael Kirby Australia, Leslie Derfler, Louis Begley Dreyfus, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Piers Paul Read Dreyfus, Ruth Harris Begley, The Dreyfus Affair, Theodore Herzl Dreyfus, Vincent Duclert Dreyfus
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shutting out the dark area
Holding the traumatic moment; gripping it to prevent it from bounding into the realm of the spectacle. The culture of the spectacle, dazzled, doped and duped by its connection to technology where issues are dealt with as another aspect of … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged amy winehouse, Andrew Potter, Bruce Nauman, Claude Monet, eino kyla, F.Scott Fitgerald, Ingmar Bergman, Jacques Ellul, Leah McLaren, Lucian Freud, paul mccarthy, Robert Redford, Stephen Marche, the great gatsby
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new frontier
The modern sense of the human being. The eternal sense of the individual condition as essentially one of individual conflict and torment, caught in some nasty crosswinds between building and demolition- often simultaneously- the regression and enlightened, the hysterical and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Blanqui, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Monet, Clement Greenberg, David Sylvester, Donald Kuspit, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gustav Landauer, Jackson Pollock, Jean Genet, Jean Paul Sartre, Jerry Saltz, Martin Buber, richard hamilton pop art, Richard Huelsenbeck, Surrealism
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swallowing man and myth: presence of the green truth
The infiltration of Andelysian luxuriance into Roman severity marks nature’s triumph in Nicolas Poussin’s ultimate works of 1658-1664. As action had once been reduced to immobility, so now it is absorbed by nature’s serenity. Time is swallowed by space, history … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Corot, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Franz Kafka, Gustave Courbet, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, John Haber Art, Martin Buber, Meyer Schapiro, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, Richard Wollheim, Thomas Cole art, William Hazlitt
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artfully preserved
The paintings may appear a bit superficial, an air of being quickly rendered and spontaneous, like Bob Ross “deep” , but they were painstakingly and deliberately wrought … Franz Hals is at the Met and the seventeenth-century Dutch master has … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Frans Hals, James McNeill Whistler, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Singer Sargent, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Norman Rockwell, Rembrandt, ROberta Smith New York Times, seymour slive, Vincent Van Gogh, walter liedtke
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everything must go: but deep pockets not enough
The intricate relationship between art and commerce.This past Wednesday, Christies auction house in New York sold an astounding $300 million of art……Does it really matter if its good or worth it? Is it art or a commodity?…. The sales figures … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albrecht Durer, alighiero boetti, amy cappellazzo, andreas gursky, Andy Warhol, brett gorvy, cecily brown, christopher burge, christopher mason, Cindy Sherman, Claude Monet, cy twombly, Damien Hirst, Donald Kuspit, edward dolman, Francis Bacon, Francis Picabia, greenberg rohatyns, Jacob Epstein, jean-pierre lehmann, Jeff Koons, julie mehretu, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko, mary boone, maurice vlaminck, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Philippe Segalot, Rembrandt, richard diebenkorn, Richard Prince, todd levin, urs fischer
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