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Tag Archives: Edgar Degas
static cling of classicism
Lack of investment in motion. No, not a financial term referring to the money trails and the velocity of cash but the problem in classical composition of human forms being as static as the natural and architectural forms that are … Continue reading
family affairs
Particular circumstances of individual relationships in all their psychological subtleties fascinated a young Frenchman who painted a family group about 1860 when he was not even thirty years old. But at that age Edgar Degas was already an urbane cosmopolite. … Continue reading
greener pastures
Let the exodus begin.There is no way to really stop it as like water will always find the crack to seep through. Likely, the only answer is just to engage in a sort of corporate excommunication. The power and stench … Continue reading
dreyfus: justice better late than forever
Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. It was a long time ago and the stage was France, but the chief actors in the drama, as part of an ushering in of the age of modernism, have remained on the political scene … Continue reading
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Tagged Edgar Degas, Emile Zola, Frederick Brown Dreyfus, Gen. Jean Sandherr, Leslie Derfler, Louis Begley Dreyfus, Lt. Col. Marie Georges Picquart, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Maurice Weil, Peter Lefcourt Dreyfus, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Marie Waldeck-Rousseau, Piers Paul Read Dreyfus, Ruth harris Dreyfus, The Dreyfus Affair, Vincent Duclert
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perjury on parade: waiting to lynch zola
Why we cannot and should not forget Dreyfus. It was the late nineteenth-century, la belle epoque in France. It seems so long ago, but the chief actors in the drama- the double agents, perfidious generals, conniving politicians, and anti-Semites posing … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Lazare anarchist, Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Edgar Degas, Edouard Drumont La Libre Parole, Emile Zola, Ernest May collector of Degas paintings, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Louis Begley Dreyfus, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Thomas Dreyfus, Peter Lefcourt, Pierre Bonnard artist, Piers Paul Read Dreyfus, Ruth harris Dreyfus, Siegfried Thalheimer historian, The Dreyfus Affair
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coke or pepsi?
Who is more dishonest, the Left or the Right? If Nate Silver was polling this scientifically, he would likely -19 times out of 20 with 5% deposit refundable on the empties- call it leaning with a qualified toss-up. It ultimately … Continue reading
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Tagged Alison Weir, Arik Ascherman, Brian Wilson, Camille Pissarro, Dore Gold Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, ed koch, Edgar Degas, Ehud Yaari WINEP, Elad Association, Gideon Levy, glenn greenwald, ilan pappe, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marc Chagall, Marc Chagall hadassah Hospital windows, meron benvenisti, Nate Silver, Nate Silver pollster, Rabbi Arik Ascherman, The Carter Doctrine, thomas friedman new york times, Zalman Shoval
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just a bad patch: calling perfection into question
Back to the nude. Sort of. After the classic honeymoon period of art history, came the quarrels and separation. Somehow, it can never quite be patched up and made new like the good ole’ days. Face it, after several millennia … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Botticelli Birth of Venus, Brancusi, David Park art, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, edward muybridge, Franz Kafka, Madame Pickick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Sandro Botticelli, Thomas Eakins
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she bought what she wanted: money’s worth
It was a palace of paintings. For conservative old Beantown, she was simply startling and an individualist; she erected a Venetian pleasure dome in the Back Bay and filled it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy. …In 1892 Mrs. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alessandro Botticelli, Allan Chong Gardner, Anthony Van Dyck, Benvenuto Cellini, Bernard Berenson, Bindo Altoviti, boticelli, Charles Eliot Norton, Countess Eleanor Pallffy, Edgar Degas, Fra Angelico, isabella stewart gardner, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, john sargent singer, Morris Carter, Simone Martini, Villa Livia Rome
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mrs. jack: Old Masters and young men
She was a dashing individualist, “Mrs. Jack” as she was called, startled Boston high society by erecting a Venetian pleasure dome in the Back Bay and filling it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy. Venetian lions guard the entrance, … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anders Zorn, Edgar Degas, Fenway Court, Gardner Museum Heist 1990, Harvard Fogg Museum of Art, Hendy rankings museums, Henry James, isabelle stewart gardner museum, John L. Gardner, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rembrandt the galley, Stephen Kurkjian, The Gardner Heist, Toscanini, Ulrich Boser, Vermeer The Concert
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