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the wilde bunch
by Art Chantry: oscar wilde’s gravestone. noted without comment… any ideas on who designed it? there was an amazingly beautiful mausoleum in a cemetery in st.louis that was designed by louis sullivan (for a mistress of a local beer baron.) … Continue reading
Japan and the prairie house companion
The simplicity of Japanese art deflating the mock heroics of Western art… In effect, Frank Lloyd Wright at the turn of the century was refusing to have any commerce with either the past or the present of Western art. It … Continue reading
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Tagged Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright Fawcett House, Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Style, Frank Lloyd Wright Willit house, Frank Millet, James McNeill Whistler, Karl Bitter, Louis Sullivan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Willits House Frank Lloyd Wright
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parasites: provincialism on the prairie
To Frank Lloyd Wright, out of the Renaissance had come “debased” styles of rococo and baroque, natural extensions of its intrinsic sensuality and extravagance.” He was stunned by the sensualism, and despite his own private life and his own sensually … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Adams Platt, Edwin Blashfield, Frank Lloyd Wright Coonely house, Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Style, Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House, Hovenden, Hovenden paintings, jacques lipchitz, Kenyon Cox, Louis Sullivan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog
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wright time wrong place: buy the cow
Frank Lloyd Wright was a foe of the academicians in his youth. He later grew to disdain painting and sculpture generally and to see architecture as the only art. The end result of all this was the Guggenheim Museum. A … Continue reading
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Tagged ezra stoller, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright attitude to art, Frank Lloyd Wright cubism, Frank Lloyd Wright Prairie Style, Frank Lloyd Wright Robie House, Guggenheim Museum, Jackson Pollock, Louis Sullivan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Pablo Picasso, Robert Jordy, Stravinsky, William Morris
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no indulging in frenchite pastry for the puritan
Frank Lloyd Wright saw the galleries and museums of Chicago as prison houses of gesture and anecdote, all cast in forms of photographic artificiality. He told one audience,” nature is never right for a picture, that is, not ready made.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Cotton Mather, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright Renaissance Art, Frederick William MacMonnies, Kenyon Cox, LEGO Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marcel Duchamp, William Morris
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war against the arts
Frank Lloyd Wright grew to disdain painting and sculpture generally and to see architecture as the only art. A lifetime of this mindset gave rise to a predictable and inevitable final result: The Guggenheim museum, a museum that defeats the … Continue reading
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