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Tag Archives: Gustave Courbet
from that time onwards forever
A challenging of culture, a culture which wants to negate, almost perversely, intense human dramas, wants to banalize them into kitsch and either sit-com them on the laugh track or shoot it full of holes like real men. There is … Continue reading
Facing up: masked to uncover the other
Maybe Levinas was just yelling into the canyon, hearing his echo, catching the attention of a few gophers going about their business in the void. However, the implications of what he was expressing was quite profound, nothing less than a … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Diane Arbus, Diego Velazquez, doon arbus, emmanuel levinas, Gustave Courbet, Jean Paul Sartre, joel-peter witkin, Martin Buber, Marvin Israel, Nicolas Poussin, patricia bosworth, Simone Weil, william todd schultz
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swallowing man and myth: presence of the green truth
The infiltration of Andelysian luxuriance into Roman severity marks nature’s triumph in Nicolas Poussin’s ultimate works of 1658-1664. As action had once been reduced to immobility, so now it is absorbed by nature’s serenity. Time is swallowed by space, history … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Corot, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Franz Kafka, Gustave Courbet, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, John Haber Art, Martin Buber, Meyer Schapiro, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, Richard Wollheim, Thomas Cole art, William Hazlitt
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sign of the times: tainted logic
The Aryan myth began inconspicuously as a minor issue in comparative linguistics at the end of the eighteenth-century and then assumed a life of its own of disproportionate dimensions in the romantic age that morphed into a racial theory of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Adolf Ziegler, Arno Breker, Edouard Manet, Fassbinder, Gustave Courbet, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Ivo Saliger, Joseph Thorak, Paul Cezanne, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Sontag, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin
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In search of the ubiquitous anecdote for the rank and file
To categorize pictures of the Salon type, whether by any subject or criteria, one could belabor each of the many types- the noble peasant, the Oriental, the jolly peasant, melancholy old ladies, religious pictures, the allegories- but in the end … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Charles Baudelaire, Eduard Charlemont, Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Jean Leon Gerome, Joseph J. Rishel, Sir Edwin Landseer, Theophile Gautier, W.P. Frith, William Dyce, William Powell Frith
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Not in my salon
Few styles fell so far into disrepute as the once-prized academic art of the nineteenth-century.Bad as most of it really was, some of it did not deserve the exile it had received. This banishment of French Salon paintings took a … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous
Tagged Bouguereau, Duveau, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, French Salon painting, Gustave Courbet, Honore Daumier, Jan Vermeer, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Francois Millet, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Millet, Pierre Auguste Cot, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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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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COUNTRY LIFE: IS PARIS BLUSHING?
He was a painter trained in the staid academic tradition but too exuberant to be constrained by it: He was influenced by the old masters, particulary Velazquez and Goya, but Manet reasoned that ones art should reflect ideas and ideals of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Caragh Thuring, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Monet, David Alan Brown, Denis Diderot, Diego Velazquez, Edouard Manet, Francisco Goya, Gilles Néret, Gustave Courbet, Jim Lane, L. Schlain, Lisa MacDonald, Manet, Marcantonio Raimondi, Paul Cezanne, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Salvador dali, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, Titian, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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