Tag Archives: Eugene Delacroix

horaire: Lundi à Mélodie

Contacts Secrets et Horaires de Madame Pickwick… Madame Pickwick entretient d’excellentes relations avec les correspondents à l’étranger, les clavencinistes,les promeneurs solitaires,l’idiot de Dostoievski, les porteurs de chapeau melon, le Five O’Clock Tea, la rapidité d’esprit, le Taj Mahal,le gâteau des … Continue reading

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spain of cervantes: life as trashy novelette

In Miguel de Cervantes’s lifetime, Spain had two very different moods…. …It was this mood of exaltation in the time of the Emperor, Charles V, which found its popular expression in the famous “romances of chivalry.” Throughout the sixteenth-century, but … Continue reading

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karl marx: poet at the barricade

Karl Marx: the romantic idealist exhorting man to triumph over the things he manufactures… …To many of that generation “revolution” was a holy word, and the spirit of freedom appeared, as in Delacroix’s famous painting, as a beautiful bare-breasted woman … Continue reading

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national brotherhood day

I’m okay. You’re not okay. At all. This idea of moral relativism is the most twisted and perverted ideal going; any stink-job piece of crap, including murder but starting at the bottom-feeding level of character assassination is permitted in the … Continue reading

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A Serious Man

Amir Khadir. I suppose, one day, if they throw shoes at him, he’ll know where they were launched from. Like a hit the dummy contest at a country tombola. Part George Galloway, part warm up act in the generic comic … Continue reading

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natural born killers

Open the lamp. Unleash the genie. Sometimes simple narratives don’t provide answers. Or, simply the inertia devolves into populism, trite formulas, generic thinking, or a romantic nostalgia for an idyll by-gone era that never existed and we are back to … Continue reading

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Cuddly Critters

Its almost unpardonable in its sentimentality. Almost a crime to get sucked into the trite, obvious and even vulgar. But then painting is merchandise. There was a long period where hack, formula art was considered a patriotic defense of the … Continue reading

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not a recorder of the “right” sentiments

Turner was perhaps the greatest of all British artists, but there was always the question of whether his most adventurous works were evidence of mental decay. Turner was the antithesis of Charles Eastlake, the head of the Royal Academy. Eastlake … Continue reading

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quiet desperation of prosaic convenience

Is it possible to reconcile the classic/romantic divide. To purge the psychological into a product of reason? Can it be avoided that aesthetic purity depends somewhat on the decadent? Well, the concept of soulmates can be pitched out so that … Continue reading

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boredom: waiting for something to happen

and so it is so Modern boredom. Deep-seated boredom. The suspension of relations with reality and its replacement mined from the depths of the netherworld splitting into variations of nothingness; a world without meaning, without autonomy and without larger connections … Continue reading

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