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americans abroad: in search of “classical” education
The Henry James archetype of the American abroad: Generally painters, novelists or historians of the arts. Almost all of them idlers who live on unearned income and found in Switzerland an ideal tax haven; pensioners an elderly couples stretching their … Continue reading
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Tagged Caresse Crosby, Cybil Shepherd, Ernest Hemingway, Henry James, Henry James Daisy Miller, James McNeill Whistler, Leo Stein, Man Ray, mary cassatt, Peter Bogdanovich, Sinclair Lewis, Van Wyck Brooks, William Merritt Chase
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odd couple: “excellent mystery”
Marriage is sometimes described in prayer books as an “excellent mystery”; something that cannot help but stimulate the imagination. Every marriage, union, is slightly mysterious , whether the partnership succeeds or fails. There is usually something that escapes analysis. There … Continue reading
the coxcombs move on
The late Victorian period for the Royal Academy was really the end , succumbing after a long and chronic respiratory illness. Frith’s The Private View from 1881, showed that the Summer Exhibition could still take a hold on the public, … Continue reading
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Tagged benjamin disraeli, Grosvenor Gallery, James McNeil Whistler On the Piano, James McNeill Whistler, John Everett Millais, John Ruskin, Joshua Reynolds, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Sir Joshua Reynolds, the royal academy, William Holman Hunt, William Powell Frith, William Powell Frith The Private Room
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Japan and the prairie house companion
The simplicity of Japanese art deflating the mock heroics of Western art… In effect, Frank Lloyd Wright at the turn of the century was refusing to have any commerce with either the past or the present of Western art. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright Fawcett House, Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Style, Frank Lloyd Wright Willit house, Frank Millet, James McNeill Whistler, Karl Bitter, Louis Sullivan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Willits House Frank Lloyd Wright
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Gardner: drawn as if by lightning
A dashing individualist, “Mrs. Jack” Gardner startled Boston society by erecting a Venetian pleasure dome in Back Bay and filling it with masterpieces for the public to enjoy… In buying old masters, Mrs. Gardner was a generation ahead of tycoons … Continue reading
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Tagged Anders Zorn, Andrew Mellon art collection, Bernard Berenson, Carlo Crivelli, Fenway Court Boston, Gardner Museum Boston, Gardner Museum heist, Gardner Museum Heist 1990, Henry Clay Frick art collection, isabella stewart gardner, Isabelle Stewart Gardner, isabelle stewart gardner museum, James McNeill Whistler, James Whitey Bulger, John Singer Sargent, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Perseus-Andromeda legend, Saint George Medieval Knight
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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
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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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halls of mirrors
The paradox of representation is that it is never real. It remains a fragment of cultural dialog that even if conceived in the absence of narrative finishes by providing one. Both Singer’s Daughters of Edward Darley Boit and Velazquez’s las … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Diego Velazquez, erica e. hirshler, Franz Kafka, gareth hawker, Henry James, James McNeill Whistler, joel snyder, John Singer Sargent, mark brown guardian, Megan Marshall, Michel Foucault, radek
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writing from the port side
These things happen. John Galsworthy became involved with a girl whom his family which to distance their son from at all costs. Since his father, who was to be the senior member of the Forsyte family in Galsworthy’s The Forsyte … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl von Clausewitz, Ford Madox Ford, henry scott tuke, James McNeill Whistler, Jeremy Paxman, John Galsworthy, John William Waterhouse, Joseph Conrad, joseph crawhall, kirsten cale, nick hubble, Sam Huntington, Sigmund Freud, steven metz, Walter Benjamin
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artfully preserved
The paintings may appear a bit superficial, an air of being quickly rendered and spontaneous, like Bob Ross “deep” , but they were painstakingly and deliberately wrought … Franz Hals is at the Met and the seventeenth-century Dutch master has … Continue reading
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Tagged Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Frans Hals, James McNeill Whistler, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Singer Sargent, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Norman Rockwell, Rembrandt, ROberta Smith New York Times, seymour slive, Vincent Van Gogh, walter liedtke
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