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petworth: painter’s paradise
He was the perfect patron. Lord Egremont’s whims included art and artists, and Turner painted luminous works at Petworth for him. Egremont befriended and encouraged the artist for more than thirty years, from 1809 until Egremont’s death in 1837. Inside … Continue reading
perfect patron
Lord Egremont’s whims included art and artists, and Turner painted luminous works at Petworth for him…. One autumn morning in 1826 an uncommonly gifted writer, who, with far less justification, imagined that he was a great artist, awoke to congratulate … Continue reading
not a recorder of the “right” sentiments
Turner was perhaps the greatest of all British artists, but there was always the question of whether his most adventurous works were evidence of mental decay. Turner was the antithesis of Charles Eastlake, the head of the Royal Academy. Eastlake … Continue reading
architecture for the gypsy & virtuous ass
The inevitable decline of official institutions that have to do with the arts. Based on the belief of the immutable laws of art. Any institution that sets itself up as the guardian of such laws is, by that very fact, … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Kuspit, francis jukes, George Stubbs, James Boswell, Johan Zoffany, John Constable, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Meyer Schapiro, robert pollard, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, William Hogarth
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conflicting tendencies: the poet and peasant
Nicolas Poussin’s work is full of conflicting tendencies. More exactly, with tendencies that ought to be conflicting and that would be anywhere but in Poussin’s painting. This many sidedness, these very contradictions, determine and explain his classicism. For classicism as … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Blunt, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, denis mahon, Ernst Gombrich, ferdinand elle, georges lallemand, Goethe, John Constable, John Milton, Keith Christiansen, Marie de Medicis, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, William Hazlitt
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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
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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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DESOLATION IN THE SHADOWS OF REALITY
His range may have been a narrow one, but within its limits he was one of the most sincere painters this country has seen. He was the first who attempted with success to place nature upon canvas with pigments that … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, C.J. Holmes, Claude Monet, Constable, Edouard Manet, Goethe, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, London Royal Academy of Arts, Luke Howard, Paul Cezanne, Percy Shelley, Royal Academy, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Van Gogh
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AN ABHORRENCE FOR GLOSSY MIRACLES OF TECHNIQUE
“It was a real learning experience,” she recalls, “to sit for hours with great paintings and get inside an artist’s head to see the logic of how he put the painting together.” Reflecting upon earlier artists who have influenced her … Continue reading
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Tagged C.J. Holmes, Charles Nodier, Cuyp, English Landscape painting, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Fisher, John R. Kemp, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, London Royal Academy of Arts, Maria Bicknell, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard McKinley, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Susan Downy-White, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth
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DISTINCT FROM THE AMBIANCE OF HISTORY
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin West, Claude Lorrain, David Wilkie, Dr. Johnson, English Landscape painting, George Crabbe, Gerald E. Finley, Handel, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Martin, John Sunderland, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, Leslie Pyke, London Royal Academy of Arts, Peter Paul Rubens, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Stephen Prickett, Thomas Gainsborough, William Wordsworth
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SELF DOUBTS OF A RELENTLESS PERFECTIONIST
The similarity in the approaches to landscape taken by the geographer and the landscape painter have been acknowledged since the first half of the nineteenth century. Both are committed to developing coherent descriptions of he surface of the earth in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Lyles, David Watts, J.T. Smith, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, K. Paul Johnson, London Royal Academy of Arts, Marion Maneker, Martin Gayford, Michael Kitson, Monty English, Paul Johnson, Peter Paul Rubens, Roger Fry, Ronald Rees, Royal Academy, Sir George Beaumont, Thomas Gainsborough, William Blake, William Wordsworth
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