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Sand and Chopin….. etudes of the muse or the ballade of the…vampire
George Sand is often cast as the villain of the piece, though actually, she did wonders for Frederic Chopin by shielding him from the buffetings of the world. Chopin’s connection with Madame Dudevant, the French novelist, better known as “George … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mickiewicz, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred de Musset, Andre Gide, August Clesinger, Chopin, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Sand, Goethe, Handel, Heinrich Heine, Honore Daumier, Honore de Balzac, Janka Wohl, Michael Lunts, Oscar Wilde, Paganini, Victor Hugo
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CELEBRITY AS REBELLION TO REASON: An Age of the Enlightened Groupie
The popular culture’s notion that geniuses were crazy certainly received support from the excesses of many of the Romantic artists of the nineteenth century, who had their share of obsessive, manic, and ecstatic behaviors. Further, the “mad scientist” in literature … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andy Warhol, Angelina Jolie, art chantry, Brian Jones The Rolling Stones, Britney Spears, Corot, David Phillips, Emile Zola, Fred Inglis, Gainsborough, Goethe, Handel, Heinrich Heine, Horace Vermet, Horace Vernet, Joshua Reynolds, Madonna, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mark Beech, Martin Rubin, Mary Shelley, Michel Carné, Mozart, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Percy Shelley, Sarah Bernhardt, Sarah Siddons, Stendhal, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough
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DISTINCT FROM THE AMBIANCE OF HISTORY
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Benjamin West, Claude Lorrain, David Wilkie, Dr. Johnson, English Landscape painting, George Crabbe, Gerald E. Finley, Handel, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Martin, John Sunderland, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, Leslie Pyke, London Royal Academy of Arts, Peter Paul Rubens, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stephen Prickett, Thomas Gainsborough, William Wordsworth
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THE PRODIGIES: CHECK-MATE ON GENIUS
The cutoff for what is often considered ”gifted” is an IQ score that is among the top two percent of the population, which is a score of 130 on the Wechsler scales, or 132 on the Stanford-Binet scale. This sole … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Bobby Fischer, Britney Spears, Catharine Morris Cox, Chris Hitchens, David Duke, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Edison, Francis Galton, Gary Kasparov, Goethe, Grady M. Towers, Handel, IQ Tests, James Woods, Jeremy Schaap, John Stuart Mill, Kevin MacDonald, Lord Byron, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mozart, Muhammed Ali, Noam Chomsky, Paul McCartney, Robert S. Albert, Sartre, Spinoza, Stanford-Binet Scale, Voltaire, Weschler Scale, William E. Benet, William James Sidis
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