Tag Archives: Joshua Reynolds

CELEBRITY AS REBELLION TO REASON: An Age of the Enlightened Groupie

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Dave

The popular culture’s notion that geniuses were crazy certainly received support from the excesses of many of the Romantic artists of the nineteenth century, who had their share of obsessive, manic, and ecstatic behaviors. Further, the “mad scientist” in literature … Continue reading →

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STICKING TO YOUR GUNS WITH A CONSTABLE

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Dave

John Constable( 1776-1837 ) was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home-now known as “Constable Country”-which he invested with an intensity of affection. “I … Continue reading →

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AN ABHORRENCE FOR GLOSSY MIRACLES OF TECHNIQUE

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Dave

“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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DISTINCT FROM THE AMBIANCE OF HISTORY

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Dave

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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A COUPLE COOL CATS & HOT RATS

Posted on June 20, 2010 by Dave

”Introduced to-day to the man who beyond all doubt is the greatest of the age; greatest in every faculty of the imagination, in every branch of scenic knowledge; at once the painter and poet of the day… I found in him … Continue reading →

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UNPLEASANTLY SANE & MYSTICALLY MAD

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Dave

“William Blake is an unfortunate lunatic, whose personal inoffensiveness secures him from confinement….the proor man fancies himself a great master, and has painted a few wretched pictures, some of which are intelligible allegory, others an attempt at sober character by … Continue reading →