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Tag Archives: Jehan Georges Vibert
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Piece on the anniversary of Vatican II, which began fifty years ago last week, and despite the best efforts of arch-conservatism over the past two popes, such as the stacking of cardinal appointments on the reactionary front benches, and reinforcing … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, Angelo Cardinal Roncalli, Brunery painter, Conrad Black, Conrad Black National Post, George Croegaert, Jehan Georges Vibert, Joseph Frings, Joseph Ratzinger, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, Pope Pius XII, The Band The Weight, Vatican II Anniversary, Vincent Auriol French President
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art as locusts: hunters and gatherers
Way back when, the French Salon had commodified painting as merchandise and the Salon itself became a gigantic salesroom, for at best inconsequential work of men sometimes technically gifted who understood the manipulation of trite, generic formula mixed with an … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andy Warhol, burne-jones, burne-jones the golden stairs, Damien Hirst, For Heaven's Sake Damien Hirst, Jehan Georges Vibert, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, paul mccarthy art
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the undraped: Of anecdotal interest
There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Andrew Graham Dixon, Edouard Manet, Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, French Salon painting, Jean Leon Gerome, Jehan Georges Vibert, John Wolfe, Manet Olympia, Rosa Bonheur, Sir Edwin Landseer, Titian Venus of Urbino, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
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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