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golan heights and bottoms: grand designs
New cover versions of an old song. Through terror and clamor they can win concessions, and that the Israelis are willing to sacrifice their security bit by bit to win temporary calm. From time to time there is an ebb, … Continue reading
essence of comedy: the geese
The essence of comedy is the triumph of nature over intellect; where hedonism replaces heroism, and the thirst for glory is seen as the repair of the fool. The tragic hero dies for what is nobler in the mind, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Boccaccio Decameron, Dante Alighieri, Dante Divine Comedy, Giovanni Boccaccio, Homer The Iliad, Homer The Odyssey, John Everett Millais, John William Waterhouse, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sandro Botticelli
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Rehabilitation of joan: if memory serves her well
The judgements of Joan of Arc. Her trial and execution were but the beginning. In the centuries since, the Maid has continued to provoke anger and adoration. The first “revision” was the posthumous Rehabilitation trial… The Rehabilitation was conducted in … Continue reading
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Tagged carl theodor dreyer, George Bernard Shaw Saint Joan, Jean d'Estiver Promoter Joan of Arc, Jean le Maisrtre Vice-Inquisitor, Joan of Arc Rehabilitation, Joan of Arc The Maid, Joan of Arc Trial, John Everett Millais, Jules Eugene Lenepveu, Jules Quicherat, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark twain Joan of Arc, Perceval de Cagny, Pierre Cauchon Bishop of Beauvais, Pope Calixtus III, The Vigils of Charles VII, Victor Bokris
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new world disorder
Atlantis solved everything. With its vast bulk filling in most of the ocean, ancient voyagers no longer had to traverse thousands of miles of open water to go from the Old World to the New; all they had to do … Continue reading
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Tagged Cyrus Gordon Semitic languages, Dr. Cyrus Herzl Gordon, Easter Island, Grant Wood paintings, John Everett Millais, Kublai Khan, Lemuria, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Montaigne on Atlantis, Plato Critias, Plato Timaeus, Voltaire on Atlantis
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
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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children should be painted and not herd
Salon painting.And children. Sympathy for the poor things with an equally normal but less open response to their charms. Unlike Salon painting of women who were usually lashed to a stake, tortured or languishing in prisons condemned to sleeping on … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Baudelaire, coventry patmore, emil munier, ferdinand waldmuller, French Salon painting, John Everett Millais, john george brown, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Wassily Kandinsky
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conspicuous posturing
The lessons we learn today from Victorian painting are primarily of a documentary order; and the works in question should perhaps not be considered under the heading of painting at all, but rather as adjuncts and auxiliaries of the Victorian … Continue reading
boredom: waiting for something to happen
and so it is so Modern boredom. Deep-seated boredom. The suspension of relations with reality and its replacement mined from the depths of the netherworld splitting into variations of nothingness; a world without meaning, without autonomy and without larger connections … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged austin warren, Charles Baudelaire, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Kafka, Heinrich Heine, irving babbitt, Jean Renoir, joel-peter witkin, John Everett Millais, Lucian Freud, Marcel Proust, Martin Buber, Martin Heidegger, Milan Kundera, Pierre Auguste Renoir, ralph greenson, Samuel Beckett, Soren Kierkegaard
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9/11: reaching for the noble among the ruins
Politics in art seems almost inevitable, especially the emotional issue surrounding 9/11, national identity and larger geopolitical concerns which with the unfolding of the Arab Spring, perhaps a metaphor for “regime change”, bring to light an arc of economically motivated … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Wyeth, graydon parrish, Hilton Kramer, Jackson Pollock, james f. cooper, Jeff Koons, John Everett Millais, John William Waterhouse, masatomo kuriya, N.C. Wyeth, new britain museum of american art, nicolas serota, philippe de montebello, Robert Hughes, Steve Reich, steve reich wtc 9/11, Walter Benjamin, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, wtc 10th anniversary
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US AND THEM: THE MADCAP LAUGHS
Henry Fuseli’s painting “The Mandrake” , now lost, struck the aging Horace Walpole as “shockingly mad, madder than ever, quite mad!” But Fuseli would hardly have regarded that as an insult. Much of the time he was trading on madness … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Price, Donizetti, Dr. Georget De La Folie, Dr. Georget psychiatrist, Ernst Gombrich, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, George Crabbe, Gericault, Goethe, Henry Fuseli, Holman Hunt, Horace Walpole, John Buchan, John Everett Millais, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joseph Anton Koch, Lord Byron, Milton, Milton Paradise Lost, Philip V. Allingham, Shakespeare, Simon Schama, Sir Walter Scott, Stanley Kubrick, Tasso, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Torquato Tasso, Wilhelm Heinse, William Blake, William Holman Hunt
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