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Tag Archives: Gustave Moreau
don’t blame the messenger
Angels go back to the dawn of time, whether in physical or metaphorical form, they seem to have run the gamut from the truly celestial to the falling, the redeemable and the incomprehensible. Messengers on a divine route or a … Continue reading
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Tagged alexander louis leloir, frans francken paintings, Gershom Scholem, Gustave Moreau, Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom American religion, Harold Bloom religion, Jacob and Esau, Jacob and the angel, Leon Bonnat, Luca Giordano, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog
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tease the monkey: arrows of outrageous fortune
It began with Noam Chomsky’s assertion that language and the understanding of signs is, within the context as we know it, purely a realm of human endeavor. That would seem fairly axiomatic and difficult to challenge. We like to humanize … Continue reading
MATISSE: Cut,Paste & Taste
That Matisse would abandon oil painting and adopt a new technique so late in his career was a surprise to many people, although it need not have been. Paper cutouts were, of course, convenient for a semi-invalid, but Matisse had … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andre Derain, Brian O'Doherty, Fauvism, Gertrude Stein, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Henri-Edmond Cross, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Matisse Paper cut-out, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Raoul Dufy, Riva Castleman, Van Gogh
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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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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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UNORDAINED PASSION:AN AVANT GARDE DIVINE MERCY
If you judged these things solely by press headlines, you would assume that the pope was about to face a lynch mob of jeering Protestants and vengeful atheists. Most Britons, we are told, are disgusted at the thought of spending … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Murray, Albert Camus, Ambroise Vollard, André Suares, Araminta Worsworth, Cardinal Walter Kasper, Catholic democrat Lammenais, Evelyn Waugh, Friedrich Nietzsche, G.K. Chesterton, Geoffrey Robertson, Georges Rouault, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Iain Martin Wall Street Journal, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Maritain, James Thrall Soby, Jean Paul Sartre, Julie Burchill, Léon Bloy, Lionello Venturi, Pablo Picasso, Peter Tatchell, Rembrandt, Richard Dawkins, Seamus L. Gaffney, Stephen Fry, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Huxley
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THE WANDERING MYTH: IF ANYONE FINDS A LOST TROJAN
Its been about one hundred and fifty years since Schliemann discovered the site of Troy. Yet no one has found any evidence that the Greeks ever fought there. The capture of Troy and the wanderings of Odysseus have had an … Continue reading
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Tagged Eratosthenes, Frederick Leighton, George Grote, Gustave Moreau, Helen of Troy, Homer, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, Jacques-Louis David, Lucas Cranach, Michelangelo, Odysseus, Ovid, Peter Paul Rubens, Publius Ovidius Naso, Richard Lattimore, Rubens, Thucydides, Virgil, Virgil Aenid, W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats, Yeats
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BURNING LOVE
In antiquity men spoke of her as the tenth muse. Today, Sappho ( 618 BC-565 BC ) remains one of the most famous lyric poets the world has ever known.Sappho was called a lyrist because, as was the custom of … Continue reading
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Tagged Antoine-Jean Gros, Aphrodite, Charles Augustin Mengin, Edith Mora, Freud, Greek Poetry, Greek Poets, Gregory VII, Gustave Moreau, Jacques-Louis David, Lesbian, Maximus of Tyre, Sappho, Women's Studies
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