Tag Archives: Henri Toulouse-Lautrec

BONNARD: INTIMATE ESCAPE Into Charged Psychological Moments

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Dave

Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was not a revolutionary artist but he synthesized several different styles to create works of striking painterliness and memorably glorious color. He borrowed a lightness from the Impressionists, a bold palette from the Post-Impressionists and Fauves, a compressed … Continue reading →

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THE SIMPLE SEER: “FIRST” Possession of a Moment

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Dave

Human monocular and bifocal vision is very different to the action of the camera lens. In fact, Bonnard’s paintings get much more complex spatially when he gives up using the camera around 1920, and relies more and more on his … Continue reading →

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FORBIDDEN WORLD:IN THE SHADOW OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Dave

The forbidden world of Watteau. The witness of a life he could not share; one of France’s greatest painters transformed reality into the most poetic and lyrical visions in the history of art…. “This artist who said hardly anything about … Continue reading →

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REAL LOVE: A KARMA of MILK and HONEY

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Dave

All my little plans and schemes pass like some forgotten dream. Seems that all I really was doing was waiting for you. Just like little girls and boys playing with their little toys. Seems like all we really were doing … Continue reading →

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FRENCH KISS IN THE DERRIERE: SKINNING THE RATS

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Dave

He whose image we offer you, And whose art, subtle above all others’, Teaches us to laugh at ourselves, That man, reader, is a sage. –Charles Baudelaire, Verses in Honor of the Portrait of Monsieur Honoré Daumier The technique of … Continue reading →

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aN eXPLOSIVELy fERTILe mINd

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Dave

He was the most resourceful of innovators. Pablo  Picasso transmuted old traditions into modern idioms. He might even be called the last of the great humanists. When Picasso ( 1881-1973 ) was alive, what he was doing, or had stopped … Continue reading →

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