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Tag Archives: JMW Turner
rites behind rites: the dark gods
What are the rites behind the rites. When we observe Easter or celebrate May Day, we are actually walking in the ghostly footsteps of men who worshiped plants and murdered kings. James Frazer’s The Golden Bough was a primeval source … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Boris Johnson, Camille Paglia, filippo coarelli, James Frazer, JMW Turner, John B. Vickery, John Mallard William Turner, Michael jackson, Sir James Fraser
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A SALTY DOG FLOATS ON
‘All hands on deck, we’ve run afloat!’ I heard the captain cry ‘Explore the ship, replace the cook: let no one leave alive!’ Across the straits, around the Horn: how far can sailors fly? A twisted path, our tortured course, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Gregoire, Albert Alhadeff, Alexander Correard, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bernardino Fergioni, Bonaventura Peeters, Caravaggio, Charles Darwin, Claude Joseph Vernet, Danby, Douglas Kellner, Ernst Bloch, Eugene Delacroix, Eugene Isabey, Flaubert, Francis Danby, George P. Landow, Gericault, Henri Savigny, Ivan Aivazovsky, JMW Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Keith Reid, Lorenz Eitner, Michelangelo, Robin Spencer, Tennyson, The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, Willard Spiegelman, William Falconer
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A COMPLEX HIDDEN SPIRIT:OBSCURED BY THE SUN
Atmospherics, visions and hallucinations. A pathological obsession with light. Turner’s paintings, while both beautiful, and ahead of their time, are still considered to be the black sheep of their time. Their unorthodox nature may have overshadowed his goal of bringing … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Holme, Dan Bischoff, Earl of Egremont, Ed Voves, George Wyndham, Hannah Danby, JMW Turner, John Ruskin, Jon Anderson Yes, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Maev Kennedy, Sarah Danby, Simon Schama, Turner, Yes Fragile, Yes Heart of the Sunrise
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AWAKENED INTO A MYSTIC DARKNESS:THE FALLACY OF HOPE
We were born before the wind Also younger than the sun Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic Hark, now hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Anthony Venutolo, Apollo and Daphne, Charles Holme, Christopher Hitchens, Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Dan Bischoff, Earl of Egremont, English Painting, Friedrich August von Kaulbach, Jacopo Sannazaro, JMW Turner, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Kaulbach, Nicolas Poussin, Ovid, Simon Schama, Sir Philip Sidney, Van Morrison, Virgil Thomson, Virgil Thomson Liberty, Walter Fawkes, William Hazlitt
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CHAOS THEORY:MEMO FROM TURNER
Memo From Turner Didn’t I see you down in San Antone on a hot and dusty night Weren’t you eating eggs in Sammy’s there when the black man drew the knife Didn’t you drown the Jew in Rampton when he … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract expressionism, Albert Einstein, Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique, Hector Berlioz, Henri Matisse, JMW Turner, John Constable, John Mallard William Turner, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones, Mozart, Pinchas Steinberg, Rolling Stones Memo from Turner, Simon Schama, Sir George Beaumont, Turner, William Hazlitt, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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