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daumier: love and merciless
Honore Daumier made his living as a cartoonist. His paintings were known to few during his lifetime. But, upon his death a syndicate acquired them and made a tidy killing on the proceeds. Daumier did about five thousand cartoons, though … Continue reading
print collecting in the arcade
Art of the fantastic or visionary art. Generally at best a tenuous relationship with the world we know and must depend upon associations of the most personal and inward kind. Our response to visions and dreams hinges on these connection, … Continue reading
andre francois: enjoying imperfection
Andre Francois was an exuberant satirist and prankster; unpredictable with witty insight and the clarity of high art… Whether art is good or bad has nothing to do with whether it is satiric or solemn. History has shown a long … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Francois art, Honore Daumier, Jacques Callot, William Hogarth
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sketches of spain: quixotic spirit of disillusion
The two Spains of Miguel de Cervantes and the context for Don Quixote which explains the schizophrenic nature of the character as a reflection of an imperial age coming to a dishonourable end… Charles V abdicated the Spanish throne in … Continue reading
tergenev: high tide for the serf
The great emancipator: Ivan Turgenev and his collection of stories A Sportsman’s Sketch. He helped bring freedom to the serf by the devastating method of showing them what their lives were like through fiction… …Even in those stories where the … Continue reading
captain dreyfus: court farcial
…The premier, Charles Aexandre Dupuy, the foreign minister, Gabriel Hanotux, and other cabinet colleagues whom Mercier consulted, had advised against hasty action in the case: the reactions of both the French public and the German Kaiser were dangerously unpredictable. Gen. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Capt. Alfred Dreyfus, Carlos Blacker, Chris Healy Irish poet, Col. A. Panizzardi, Col. Henry Dreyfus Affair, Col. Jean Sandherr, Col. Max von Schwartzkoppen, Eddie Naughton, Emile Zola, Francisco Goya, Gen. Auguste Mercier, Gregor Dallas, Honore Daumier, Ilan Halimi, Jean-Louis Levy, Justice Michael Kirby Australia, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maj. Mercier du Paty de Clam, Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Peter Lefcourt, Robert Maguire, Rowland Strong, The Dreyfus Affair, Tom Verlaine, Vincent Duclert historian, Yolande Jansen
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1848 again? …the madcap laughs
An Arab Spring. Riots over a stupid internet film, the Innocence of Muslims, The Occupy Movement, technological unemployment. Continents are trembling and a world is awakening. In some ways, our past several years, and the so called American “fiscal cliff” … Continue reading
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Tagged 1848 Tuileries, Alphonse de Lamartine, Arnold Toynbee, Chateau d'Eau fire 1848, Emile de Girardin, Eugene Hagnauer, eugene sue, Guizot 1848, Honore Daumier, Jules Gaildrau, Louis Philippe 1848, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Palais Royale 1848, Philippoteaux painter, Victor Hugo
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reviving common sense
The decline of common sense. And why we might wish to revive it. …Prideful people, understandably, dislike serving on juries, for common sense is a fierce humbler of pride and egotism. It tells the person with a theory that they … Continue reading
nobody’s perfect!
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Sort of. Maybe these posthumous conversions are seen as a service, to prevent the heretics from perishing in hell. They get to pick an choose over the dead, and these tend … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Frank Mormon baptism, Christopher Hitchens, Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel mormonism, Harold Bloom, Harold Bloom American religion, Honore Daumier, Jerusalem Third Temple, Joseph Smith Mormon, matisyahu, Mormon Religion, Mormonism Mitt Romney, Nazi destruction of Warsaw, Simon Wiesenthal
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smuggle the uncomfortable
“The contradictory works of storied illustrator Norman Rockwell resonate in an age of anxiety”, or so the article began. Well enough anyway. But downhill from there. There is a process of historical revisionism underway that seeks to place Rockwell solidly … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Clement Greenberg, Cornelius Krieghoff, dave hickey, Edward Hopper, Ernest Hemingway, Frans Hals, Honore Daumier, James McNeil Whistler, James McNeill Whistler, Kate taylor, kate taylor globe and mail, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Norman Rockwell, Sigmund Freud, Slavoj Zizek
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