Tag Archives: Gericault

Cuddly Critters

Posted on March 23, 2012 by Dave

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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by the seat of the pants

Posted on September 1, 2011 by Dave

We often think that our intuition, and so called gut reactions, the businessman’s “seat of the pants” reflections leading to a course of action are invariably and intrinsically true and authentic; infallible sources connected to some primal verity embedded within … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alice walton, alice walton art gallery, f.w. westaway, Gericault, gericault raft of the medusa, graydon parrish, herb terrace, james marsh, martha graham, martha graham dance, merce cunningham, nim chimpsky experiment, noam chomsky linguist, otto ranke, Thomas Eakins | Leave a comment

US AND THEM: THE MADCAP LAUGHS

Posted on September 13, 2010 by Dave

Henry Fuseli’s painting “The Mandrake” , now lost, struck the aging Horace Walpole as “shockingly mad, madder than ever, quite mad!” But Fuseli would hardly have regarded that as an insult. Much of the time he was trading on madness … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alan Price, Donizetti, Dr. Georget De La Folie, Dr. Georget psychiatrist, Ernst Gombrich, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, George Crabbe, Gericault, Goethe, Henry Fuseli, Holman Hunt, Horace Walpole, John Buchan, John Everett Millais, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joseph Anton Koch, Lord Byron, Milton, Milton Paradise Lost, Philip V. Allingham, Shakespeare, Simon Schama, Sir Walter Scott, Stanley Kubrick, Tasso, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Torquato Tasso, Wilhelm Heinse, William Blake, William Holman Hunt | Leave a comment

A SALTY DOG FLOATS ON

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Dave

‘All hands on deck, we’ve run afloat!’ I heard the captain cry ‘Explore the ship, replace the cook: let no one leave alive!’ Across the straits, around the Horn: how far can sailors fly? A twisted path, our tortured course, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Abbe Gregoire, Albert Alhadeff, Alexander Correard, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bernardino Fergioni, Bonaventura Peeters, Caravaggio, Charles Darwin, Claude Joseph Vernet, Danby, Douglas Kellner, Ernst Bloch, Eugene Delacroix, Eugene Isabey, Flaubert, Francis Danby, George P. Landow, Gericault, Henri Savigny, Ivan Aivazovsky, JMW Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Keith Reid, Lorenz Eitner, Michelangelo, Robin Spencer, Tennyson, The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, Willard Spiegelman, William Falconer | Leave a comment

THE HOPE PRINCIPLE

Posted on July 26, 2010 by Dave

The Medusa, a naval frigate, ran aground off Mauritania in July 1816. Only about 250 of the 400 people on board could fit into the lifeboats. On a jerry-built raft about 150 of the others were set adrift. By the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Albert Alhadeff, Alexander Correard, Berlioz, Charles Darwin, Chaumariex Medusa, De Musset, Ernst Bloch, Frederic Chopin, French Romantic Art, Gericault, Henri Savigny, Jacques-Louis David, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Robin Spencer, Romanticism Painting, The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, Willard Spiegelman | Leave a comment

MAN-EATERS: MASTERPIECE OF THE RAW & UNCOOKED

Posted on July 24, 2010 by Dave

The cannibal in written records was originally a story about what existed beyond the boundaries of the known. It kept the wild and the civic state apart. Sometimes, however, it brought them together: Othello seduced Desdemona with his tales of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alhadeff, Bill Casselman, Christopher Columbus, Dali, Eugene Delacroix, Father Labat, Gericault, Hannibal Lecter, Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, Lenin, Marco Polo, Marquis de Sade, Maurice Sendak, Michel de Montaigne, Michelangelo, Montaigne, Nicolas Poussin, Osamu Fukutani, Othello and Desdemona, Restoration France, Robinson Crusoe, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Hobbes, Tim White Cannibalism, Voltaire, William Dafoe, William Shakespeare | Leave a comment

ADRIFT ON THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA: APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Dave

“The Raft of the Medusa,” while maintaining the symmetry of Poussin, changes painting once and for all. It is sculptural and architectural, but depicts no architecture. Two great overlapping triangles, suggesting both a ship’s sails and the ocean’s waves, define … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adad Hannah, Alexander Correard, Berlioz, Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, Eugene Delacroix, French Romantic Painting, George P. Landow, Gericault, Henri Savigny, Hu Jieming art, Lorenz Eitner, Robin Spencer, Romanticism, Victor Hugo, Willard Spiegelman | 2 Comments

BRONZE SCULPTURE: ALCHEMIST CONSOLATION PRIZE

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Dave

The Gates of Hell on which Auguste Rodin worked for two decades,is presently among twenty bronzes outside in the Sculpture Garden of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Designed by Robert Mittelstadt, the concept seeks to evoke the spirit … Continue reading →