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Tag Archives: Jean-Baptiste Greuze
divine wrath
Divine wrath: punish them for their sins. Certainly, they are being kept on a short leash, and for good reason, some of it tied back to American electoral policy, the other a revolution viewed as too big to fail status, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abdulbaset Saroot, Amos Oz, Ariel Sharon, Bashar Al Assad, Caspar David Friedrich, Free Syrian Army, Gen. David Elazar IDF, Henry Fuseli, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nadim Houry HRW, Salafists Syria, The International Crisis Group
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repertory: islamophobia rewind
She makes a good point here, namely, stop bitching about the vulgarity of American culture vis a vis Islam and Arabs and make your own art or cultural product. Fight bad product with better, fight prejudice and lies with truth … Continue reading
tendencies that ought to be conflicting
In Marcel Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past, the snobbish Mme de Cambremer at one point exclaims, ” In heaven’s name, after a painter like Monet, who is an absolute genius, don’t go an mention an old hack without a vestige … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Corot, Eugene Delacroix, French Literature. Marcel Proust Remembrance of Things Past, Georges Rouault, Jacques Lemercier, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, John Constable, Marcel Proust, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Scarron, Peter Paul Rubens, Piet Mondrian, Raphael, Rembrandt, Simon Vouet
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The CAMEL, The SPHINX and Diverse HinjinXXX
Euphemisms tend to lose their protective magic at a fairly rapid rate. Like Sisyphus, the moralists can never seem to to carry, drag or otherwise schlep that ball to the top of the mountain and give it back to its … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alexander Cockburn, Alfred C. Kinsey, Allan Ginsberg, Allen Ginsberg, Havelock Ellis, James Franco, James Panero, James Thompson, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jennifer Peto, Jerry Aronson, John J. Ray, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, M.L. Ernst, Mae West, Norman A. Rubin, Peter Fryer, Theodor Adorno, Theodore Schroeder, Thomas Martin, Thomas Rowlandson, W. Seagle
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KEEPING THE DRAMA UNDER CONTROL
His father’s life had been filled with scandal and he spent time in prison. In contrast, Rubens was a devoted family man and led a peaceful life. Sir Dudley Carlton, one of his admirers, described Rubens as “prince of painters and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Andrea Mantegna, Annibile Carraci, Caravaggio, Correggio, Counter Reformation, Giulio Romano, Guido Reni, Homer, Italian Renaissance, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Justus Lipsius, Mannerist Art, Mannerist painting, Paolo Veronese, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Rembrandt, Renaissance Art, Seneca, Sir Dudley Carlton, Stoicism, Tintoretto, Titian
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