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a gendered gaze
Exactly how many pieces of art are in the Louvre is not clear. At the most extreme is the assertion that there are 300,000 paintings and a minimum of 5,000 and the total pieces of art ranging from 35,000 to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertrand Russell, camille morineau, Damien Hirst, Francois Boucher, Georges Seurat, Honoré Fragonard, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Maurice Quentin de La Tour
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play it again zorba: the crocodile cure
Its a bit ambivalent. Michael Lewis applying the screws to the Greek population. Fatuous moral righteousness with the cruel guile that only Ugly American can muster.A targeted assassination of an un-people. Not that descriptively the proof is in the pudding. … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Merkel, Caravaggio, Diego Velasquez, European Central Bank, Greek debt crisis, Honoré Fragonard, johann Baptist Kirner, Larissa porsche owners, Michael Lewis The Big Short, michael lewis vanity fair, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Krugman, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Vallieres, porsche cayenne greece, Sarkozy, THe Eurozone debt crisis
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growing up absurd: disavowals of innocence
In Jan Miense Molenaer’s “The Smoker” from the 1620’s, viewers have an up-close regard on merrymakers, where children are inserted as metaphors for adult behavior. There is a capturing of the spirit of the figures through actions and facial expressions.The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Art
Tagged Adele Enersen, Charles Baudelaire, Fragonard, Frans Hals, Honoré Fragonard, Jan Miense Molenaar, Jan Miense Molenaer, Jan Steen, Nina maria Kleivan, Norman Rockwell, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Richard Halpern, Walter Benjamin
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shaggy dog stories: the dog peeling the banana…
Sometimes the bark is worse than the bite. Sometimes its not…In the tradition of Greek mythology, Cerebrus, a triple headed canine, guarded the entrance of the gate of the dead, and served as a protector for those crossing over.Generally, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alphonse de Lamartine, B.F. Skinner, Carpaccio, Conrad Lorenz, Decaisne, Edgar Peters Bowron, Eric Knight, Gustave de Smet, Honoré Fragonard, Jack London, Jan van Eyck, Joshua Reynolds, Konrad Lorenz, Pierre gobert, Sigmund Freud, Thorstein Veblen, Vittoro Carpaccio, white fang jack london
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Multiple personality art: 3d goth on the long way back
He claims to be haunted by an alter-ego.And he is probably right. Perhaps more than one. He is also becoming a celebrity; making noise in the world of pop art and serious art with haunting, surreal, and mysterious digital prints, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Szrotek, Amy Verner, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Edward Hopper, Francois Boucher, Henri Rousseau, Henry Fuseli, Honoré Fragonard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Karen E. Hart, Leah Morgan, Mannerism, Mannerist painting, MUFON, Multiple Personality Disorder, Nico Moleman, Ray Caesar, Riccardo Tisci, Sylvia Banasiak, sylvia plath
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salon not saloon? : against the assaults of boors and madmen
In practice the Academy became a closed circle of conventional talents , of men skilled equally in he manipulation of trite formulas for painting and the manipulation of advantageous personal contacts. The situation was deplorable, but it was also inevitable. … Continue reading
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Tagged Baudelaire, Bouguereau, Claude Lorrain, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Henri Guillaume Schlesinger, Honoré Fragonard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jehan Georges Vibert, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Delaroche, Schlesinger, Sir Edwin Landseer, Theophile Gautier, Vibert, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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MEAT PUPPETS: TEENAGE WASTELAND
The intersection between anatomy, art and religion continues to be a divisive and sensitive issue since its locus is a conjunction in a grey zone that straddles the difference, and blurs the barriers between life and death, where clear demarcation … Continue reading
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Tagged Christophe Maillot, Craig Walker Denver Post, Damien Hirst, Emmanouil Aretoulakis, Farewell Baghdad, Goethe, Gunther von Hagens, Honoré Fragonard, Jean Baudrillard, John Lucaites, Laura Keeble, Mehdi Naderi, Mitra Amiri, Stephen Jay Gould, Stockhausen
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