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an electron: a may, a may and a not
…An electron can pass from the orbit of one nucelus to another’s without passing through space between. It occupies no particular position in space when its velocity is under observation; when its location is fixed, its speed is indeterminate. At … Continue reading
client and customer: freebies on the family
Olympia is one of the most famous paintings, one that could say marked the iconic launch of the modern era in art. The background to the work may be seen in Charles Baudelaire’s the Flowers of Evil, a very pessimistic … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Miller, Boris Cyrulnik, Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Germaine Greer, Gustave Caillebotte, janine Chasseguet-Smirgel, John Sloan, Marquis de Sade, Sigmund Freud, suzanne vega, suzanne vega luka, Viktor Frankl, Walter Benjamin
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flaneurs and collectors
A fascination with the banal, the purely mediocre or downright almost instantly obsolescent; the unspectacular and all that is the antithesis of the Society of the Spectacle. An effort to exploit, better still, to redefine and re-perceive the radical potential … Continue reading
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Tagged arlo guthrie, Charles Baudelaire, Franz Hessel, Franz Kafka, Franz Rosenzweig, Frederico Fellini, Gustave Caillebotte, Harold Bloom, Max Horkheimer, occupy wall street, Pete Seeger, Walter Benjamin
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REAL IMPRESSIONS: NOBLESSE OBLIGE LESS
In contrast with Post-Impressionism and the avant-garde trends of the twentieth century the painters of French Naturalism and Impressionism rarely gave verbal expression to their aesthetics. “The most solid base for the work of art is reality constantly studied.” ( … Continue reading
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Tagged Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Beth Archer Brombert, Camille Mauclair, Camille Pissarro, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Frédéric Bazille, George Heard Hamilton, George T. Noszlopy, Gustave Caillebotte, Gustave Courbet, Gustave Flaubert, Gustave Moreau, Julie Lorenzen, Kate Flint, Manet Olympia, Marcelin Desboutin, Monty English, Pater the Dutchman, Philbert Louis Debucourt, Stephane Mallarme, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, Victorine Meurent
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SALON DES LEFTOVERS: WHO’S FOR LUNCH?
He strove only for official recognition; he never thought of himself as making a protest, overthrowing the art of the past, or creating a new order. Yet that is exactly what he did: Edouard Manet, the reluctant revolutionary. Edouard Manet, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Corot, Edgar Degas, Edmond Maitre, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Frédéric Bazille, Gustave Caillebotte, Joel Isaacson, John Wolfe, Marie Mockett, Melissa Yue, Meyer Schapiro, Otto Scholderer, Pisarro, Pissaro, Salon des Réfuses, Zacharie Astruc
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