Tag Archives: Jacques-Louis David

cairo: flights into egypt

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Dave

Sensationalism.The aesthetic of violence in the Society of the Spectacle. The birth of the agitated space and a relishing of absurd charismatic appeal. Art, like the society around it, became caught between the joy of freedom and the fear of … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Art | Tagged Antoine-Jean Gros, darcy grimaldo grigsby, Dominique-Vivant Denon, Edward Said, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Baptiste Regnault, joachim beuckelaer, john frederick lewis, Louis Sass, martin kramer, Robert Rosenblum, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Suzi Gablik, sylvain bellenger | Leave a comment

neither the real or unreal

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Dave

Does every artist paint him or herself in a portrait? That is, a representation of the alter-ego. Is Girodet’s Belley portrait a reflection of the artist, following the tradition as almost all the great masters have done before? It’s a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Abbe Raynal, angelo poliziano, Anne-Louis Girodet, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, gerolamo savonarola, Giovanni Morelli, Jacques-Louis David, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rosenblum, sylvain bellenger | Leave a comment

belley up

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Dave

He may be viewed as a rebel or a thrill seeker,a radical, but he never did leave the mainstream. Girodet’s representation of the liberation of slaves, equality, had little to do with liberation; he was a democrat of the most … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, Edouard Manet, francois-auguste biard, george levitine, George Stubbs, Girodet, Gustave Boulanger, Jacques-Louis David, jean-louis laneuville, robert rosenbaum, Roland Barthes | Leave a comment

to be equals among equals

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Dave

Tangled up in the tri-color. Girodet’s portrait of Belley is still a controversial painting whose implications remain pertinent and relevant, embroiled as we are in the same morass that followed the French Revolution. Girodet was the first artist to cross … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Abbe Raynal, Anne-Louis Girodet, george levitine, H.L. Mencken, Jacques-Louis David, louis leopold boilly, Maximilien Robespierre, Michel Foucault, Rene Chateaubriand, Robert Rosenblum, sylvain bellenger | Leave a comment

and the moon struck one

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Dave

Exposing the infinite madness of the unconscious. Showing that anti-establishment art could be accepted, ultimately, by the powers that be through a direct democratic appeal to the what could be called “the great unwashed” unperturbed and uncorrupted by the veneer … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, Bellenger, Correggio, donald burton kuspit, Esther Leslie, French Revolution, george levitine, Jacques-Louis David, richard kazis, sylvain bellenger, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

charisma of the radiant but broken

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Dave

Soul under the spell of the moon. The thrill. The construction of empty form. Kitsch before there was kitsch. It meant using high art to express low life, the underworld and it was the beginning of sensationalism that the reign … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, Bellenger, bertram lewin, david aberbach, eric rayner, Girodet, H.L. Mencken, Jacques-Louis David, James Macpherson, Lord Byron | Leave a comment

down the hatch

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Dave

At the bottom of the poisoned cup is a graveyard of broken dreams. Poison has been around seemingly forever. The bible is filled episodes since the Fall of poisonous plants and amateur snake handlers testing their mettle and faith against … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged andre chenier, Charles Baudelaire, Charlie Chaplin, death by poison, death of socrates, edward f. bachner, Jacques-Louis David, John Boydell, Monsieur Verdoux, Orson Welles, rasputin death, Sir Joshua Reynolds, william dowling | Leave a comment

love at last sight

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Dave

The creator of all this decadence and all its obscure strands was Baudelaire. His poetry collection called The Flowers of Evil from 1857, is a classic and seminal piece of decadent writing influencing everyone from Walter Benjamin to Henry Miller … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Charles Baudelaire, Friedrich Nietzsche, Honore Daumier, Honore de Balzac, Jacques-Louis David, Marcel Proust, Marquis de Sade, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

sympathy for the unwashed: springtime for voltaire?

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Dave

Voltaire. The name conjures up many associations. Intelligent, radical, revolutionary. But who really was Voltaire? …. He was not, as has been said,a profound thinker. He taught men to question every legend, every conventional idea transmitted to them by their … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged arab revolution, arab spring, arab voltaire, france pantheon, frederick the great voltaire, French Revolution, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, raymond trousson, two daughters of calas, Voltaire, Voltaire Candide, voltaire funeral, voltaire la pucelle, voltaire racine | Leave a comment

napoleon and the persecuted pair

Posted on July 11, 2011 by Dave

The fortunes of both were inextricably bound up with the star of Napoleon. The image of this persecuted pair lingered in the hearts of his enemies as a romantic ideal. The fact the Napoleon disliked Mme de Stael heartily was … Continue reading →