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Tag Archives: Diego Velasquez
GAZING AT THE COLD SLOW TERRORS OF THE WORLD
Yet who reads to bring about an end however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practice because they are good in themselves, and some pleasures that are final? And is not this among them? I have sometimes dreamt, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alice Miller, Arthur Symons, Bloomsbury Group, Brian A. Oard, Clive Bell, Diego Velasquez, Dora Carrington, E.M. Forster, Edouard Manet, Elisa Kay Spark, George Duckworth, George Frederick Watts, Harold Bloom, Kate Hext, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Lorraine Sim, Meryl Streep, Miriam Roth, Nicole Kidman, Noel Carrington, Oscar Wilde, Quentin Bell, Ralph Partridge, Rembrandt, Roger Fry, Sir Leslie Stephen, Stephen Daldry, Susannah Carson, Thoby Stephen, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Walter Pater
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THE DODGY MASTER: PSST… ITS EROTIC ABSOLUTISM
“Besides foreshadowing Warhol, Rubens amounted to the Walt Disney of his day—a hardworking industrialist of standardized pleasures. He not only ran his studio as a virtual assembly line; he oversaw the mass production of prints, based on his paintings, and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Ambroglio di Spinola, Andy Warhol, Archduchess Isabella, Benvenuto Cellini, Bologna, Caravaggio, Counter Reformation, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Flemish painting, Giovanni da Bologna, Helena Fourment Rubens, Inigo Jones, Justus Lipsius, Macchiavelli, Margaret D. Carroll, Mary D. Garrard, Norma Broude, Olivares, Ovid, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Schjeldahl, Philip Rubens, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Seneca, Simon Schama, Walt Disney
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PAINTED FROM MEMORY: PETER PAUL PAINTING JOY
“Like many people, I have trouble with Rubens’s nudes, especially the female ones: all that smothering flesh, vibrantly alive but with the erotic appeal of a mud slide. (Rubens, owing to moral constraints of the time, rarely worked from nude … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Amy Golahny, Andy Warhol, Anthony Van Dyck, Caravaggio, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Edward Norgate, Flemish painting, Hals, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Jan Brandt, Jan Wildens, Julius Ceasar, King Henry IV, Mannerist Art, Marie de Medicis, Pablo Picasso, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Schjeldahl, Rembrandt, Rubens, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Simon Schama, Sir William Sanderson, Tacitus Roman Historian, Vermeer, Willem Panneels
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