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Tag Archives: Georges Braque
PAPER TIGERS : Hunting Traces of Solitude And GAIETY
In art sometimes, the more things change, the more nothing is the same. The paper cutouts were Matisse’s final flowering; a last expression of this articulation of traces of solitude and gaiety, what he called “the eternal conflict between drawing … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Derain, Christopher Cook, Edmond Variel, Fauves, Friesz, Georges Braque, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Canaday, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Riva Castleman, Sergei Shchukin, Ted Nash
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MATISSE:An Inner Loneliness of Precious Time
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known….No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.( Oscar Wilde ) The birth of a wild … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Derain, Ambroise Vollard, Andre Derain, Cezanne, Fauvism, Gavin Parkinson, Georges Braque, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac
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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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GOODNIGHT VIENNA: Vagabonds Exiled to a Dark Void
Early twentieth-century Viennese modernity, obsessed with identity in crisis, was especially preoccupied with the play between external appearances and internal dimensions of the self. How could it not? No doubt, all roads eventually lead to Freud as part of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Loos, Alfred Kubin, Alma Mahler, Angela Dilkey, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Edgar Allan Poe, Egon Schiele, Emil Brix, Ernst Gombrich, Georges Braque, Gustav Klimt, Gustav Mahler, Karl Lueger Vienna mayor, Karl Popper, Oskar Kokoschka, Pablo Picasso, Robert S. Wistrich
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SPIRIT WORLD: Talking With a Famished Lion About Poetry
The French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) pursued an ideal in his quest to capture a spirit of innocence. While still very much rooted in French city life, and for many-years a conventional man, he nevertheless projected images of an exotic … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Searle, Alfred Jarry, Alice B. Toklas, Andre Derain, Arnie Greenberg, Arnold Hauser, Arsene Alexandre, Byron, Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Green, Cornelia Stabenow, Dennis Walder, Eugene Delacroix, Felix Auguste-Clement, Georges Braque, Georges Rouault, Gertrude Stein, Guillaume Apollinaire, Gustave Flaubert, Henri Matisse, Henri Rousseau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jill Fell, K. Kimberly King, Marie Laurencin, Max Weber, Nancy Ireson, Nancy Pinard, Pablo Picasso, Pam Rosenthal, Redon, Richard Jinman, Richard Powers, Robert Hughes, Roger Shattuck, Wilhelm Uhde
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BONNARD: INTIMATE ESCAPE Into Charged Psychological Moments
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was not a revolutionary artist but he synthesized several different styles to create works of striking painterliness and memorably glorious color. He borrowed a lightness from the Impressionists, a bold palette from the Post-Impressionists and Fauves, a compressed … Continue reading
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Tagged Ambrose Vollard, Auguste Renoir, Carter B. Horseley, Cornelia Lauf, Dr. Francis V. O'Connor, Edgar Degas, Georges Braque, Gertrude Stein, Graham Dickson, Henri Matisse, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, jack Flam, Karen Wilkin, Mark Rothko, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Svetlana Alpers, Tony Thomas
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VIRIDIANA & NEW WORDLY IMPULSES: Free and Imprisoned Old Sicknesses
Luis Bunuel tells us that the comfortable man ( or woman ) , self-concerned, attempting to embrace more comfort, bores us stiff. And what Bunuel is telling us in cinema is what De Tocqueville forecast in “Democracy in America” . … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Allen Josephs, Andre Breton, Bert Cardullo, Carlos Fuentes, Charlie Chaplin, De Tocqueville, Derek Malcolm, Ezra Pound, Frederico Fellini, Frederico Garcia Lorca, George Orwell, Georges Braque, Gilles Deleuze, Ian Gibson, James Joyce, Jean Paul Sartre, Jean-Luc Godard, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Leah Churner, Luis Bunuel, Marilyn Ferdinand, Michael Douglas, Oliver Stone, Pablo Picasso, Pauline Kael, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Silvia Pinal, Stanley Kauffmann, Stephen Marche, T.S. Eliot, Tarkovsky, Umberto Eco
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STRANGE HABITS OF VISUAL NEURONS
During the 20th century many different art forms and movements came to life. The Dutch painter, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was a pioneer in the development of abstraction one of the most important art movement of the times. His works from … Continue reading
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Tagged A. Michael Noll, Abstract Art, Chris Horner, David H. Hubel, David Levy, David Sylvester, Elizabeth Truswell, Fred Jameson, Gary Kennard, Georges Braque, Harry Cooper, Jonah Lehrer, Kazimir Malevich, Meyer Schapiro, Neil A. Dodgson, Pablo Picasso, Pascal Mamassian, Piet Mondrian, Plastic Art, Pure Plastic Art, Ramachandran, S. Zeki, Stephen Hicks, Stephen R.C. Hicks, Theo Van Doesburg, Timothy C. Baker, Torsten N. Wiesel, William Hirstein, William P. Seely
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