Tag Archives: george levitine

belley up

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Dave

He may be viewed as a rebel or a thrill seeker,a radical, but he never did leave the mainstream. Girodet’s representation of the liberation of slaves, equality, had little to do with liberation; he was a democrat of the most … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, Edouard Manet, francois-auguste biard, george levitine, George Stubbs, Girodet, Gustave Boulanger, Jacques-Louis David, jean-louis laneuville, robert rosenbaum, Roland Barthes | Leave a comment

to be equals among equals

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Dave

Tangled up in the tri-color. Girodet’s portrait of Belley is still a controversial painting whose implications remain pertinent and relevant, embroiled as we are in the same morass that followed the French Revolution. Girodet was the first artist to cross … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Abbe Raynal, Anne-Louis Girodet, george levitine, H.L. Mencken, Jacques-Louis David, louis leopold boilly, Maximilien Robespierre, Michel Foucault, Rene Chateaubriand, Robert Rosenblum, sylvain bellenger | Leave a comment

and the moon struck one

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Dave

Exposing the infinite madness of the unconscious. Showing that anti-establishment art could be accepted, ultimately, by the powers that be through a direct democratic appeal to the what could be called “the great unwashed” unperturbed and uncorrupted by the veneer … Continue reading →