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freeze a caste system
…How to freeze a caste system while professing only the purest democratic principles… To almost anyone who respects the English language for its grace and beauty, its combination of precision and flexibility, the social philosophy of the Structural Linguists seemed … Continue reading
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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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
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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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poussin: showing your peasant
As Mondrian himself and many others have proved, mathematical perfection has a finality which is often fatal to art. That was a danger that threatened Nicolas Poussin. What saved him was the reappearance, around 1650, of a side of his … Continue reading
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Tagged andrea del sarto, ann sutherland harris, Claude Lorrain, Corot, ed ruscha, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Gentile Bellini, Georges Seurat, Keith Christiansen, Nicolas Poussin, olivier bonfait, paul bril, Paul Cezanne, Pierre Rosenberg, Piet Mondrian, silvia ginzburg, Sir Kenneth Clark, thomas cole the course of empire, Titian
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warhol and the studio system: muse driven?
by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) this is one of those artifacts that has left me awed and puzzled ever since i found this copy back in around 1980. it’s official title is “andy warhol’s index (book)” . i guess the last … Continue reading
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Tagged alan rinzler, Andy Warhol, andy warhol factory, andy warhol index book, andy warhol interview magazine, andy warhol mother, billy name, chilhuly, christopher cerf, Corot, Damien Hirst, david paul design, david paul punk graphics, designer david paul, edie sedgwick, george macunias fluxus, holly woodlawn, ingrid superstar, Jeff Koons, Leonardo Da Vinci, nat finkelstein photos, nathan gluck, ondine, stephen shore photos, studio art system, Velvet Underground, william linnich
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tendencies that ought to be conflicting
In Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, the snobbish Mme de Cambremer at one point exclaims, ” In heaven’s name, after a painter like Monet, who is an absolute genius, don’t go an mention an old hack without a vestige … Continue reading
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Tagged Corot, Eugene Delacroix, French Literature. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past, Georges Rouault, Jacques Lemercier, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, John Constable, Marcel Proust, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Scarron, Peter Paul Rubens, Piet Mondrian, Raphael, Rembrandt, Simon Vouet
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ARCADIAN FANTASY: Mediterranean State of Mind
One summer early in the twentieth century,Henri Matisse took his family to the seashore. There, in the light of the Mediterranean, a new way of painting came forth. …. Picasso was the one who suggested that Henri Matisse and his … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Derain, Corot, Fauvism, Gavin Parkinson, Georges Braque, Georges Seurat, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Juan Gris, Maurice de Vlaminck, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh
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SALON DES LEFTOVERS: WHO’S FOR LUNCH?
He strove only for official recognition; he never thought of himself as making a protest, overthrowing the art of the past, or creating a new order. Yet that is exactly what he did: Edouard Manet, the reluctant revolutionary. Edouard Manet, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Corot, Edgar Degas, Edmond Maitre, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Frédéric Bazille, Gustave Caillebotte, Joel Isaacson, John Wolfe, Marie Mockett, Melissa Yue, Meyer Schapiro, Otto Scholderer, Pisarro, Pissaro, Salon des Réfuses, Zacharie Astruc
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CELEBRITY AS REBELLION TO REASON: An Age of the Enlightened Groupie
The popular culture’s notion that geniuses were crazy certainly received support from the excesses of many of the Romantic artists of the nineteenth century, who had their share of obsessive, manic, and ecstatic behaviors. Further, the “mad scientist” in literature … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andy Warhol, Angelina Jolie, art chantry, Brian Jones The Rolling Stones, Britney Spears, Corot, David Phillips, Emile Zola, Fred Inglis, Gainsborough, Goethe, Handel, Heinrich Heine, Horace Vermet, Horace Vernet, Joshua Reynolds, Madonna, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mark Beech, Martin Rubin, Mary Shelley, Michel Carné, Mozart, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Siddons, Stendhal, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough
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