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COUNTRY LIFE: IS PARIS BLUSHING?
He was a painter trained in the staid academic tradition but too exuberant to be constrained by it: He was influenced by the old masters, particulary Velazquez and Goya, but Manet reasoned that ones art should reflect ideas and ideals of … Continue reading
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Tagged Caragh Thuring, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Monet, David Alan Brown, Denis Diderot, Diego Velazquez, Edouard Manet, Francisco Goya, Gilles Néret, Gustave Courbet, Jim Lane, L. Schlain, Lisa MacDonald, Manet, Marcantonio Raimondi, Paul Cezanne, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Salvador dali, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, Titian, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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''F'' IS FOR FAKE AND FOOTBALL
Did he or did he not touch the ball with his hand? Of course he took a dive; it had to be fake. He was allegedly hit in the shin ,but was clutching his shoulder.A Pain in the butt, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Davis, Armando Galarraga, Brazil's Rivaldo, Claude Manet, Clifford Irving, Cristiano Ronaldo, Diego Maradona, Edouard Manet, Elmyr de Hory, Football dives and fake injuries, Football World Cup, Gary Graver, Howard Hughes, Manet, Neal Gabler, Orson Welles, Paul Cezanne, Peter Bogdanovich, Picasso, Rivaldo, Robert Houdin, Simon Johnson, Soccer diving, Steve Hodge, The Matrix, umpire Jim Joyce, World Cup South Africa
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SAVAGERY SMOTHERED IN LOVE
“Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness.” — Jean Dubuffet, 1951.Jean Dubuffet ( 1901-1985 ). A visionary of modern anti-culture. He had a private Art Brut museum, where the world’s largest … Continue reading
IN-SEINE IMPRESSIONS OF ART & INSULT
From source to estuary, the Seine has lavished her curves and geniality upon those drawn to her, particularly artists who have endlessly pursued her image, thus each finding their own.In the mind’s eye, one sees the Seine only in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, Baudelaire, Billy Wilder, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Flaubert, French Art, French Impressionism, Guillaume Apollinaire, Guy de Maupassant, Henry Miller, Joseph E. Renan, Leon Paul Fargue, Manet, Mark Twain, Paul Cezanne, Racine, Renoir, Restif de la Bretonne, River Seine
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IMPRESSIONS ABANDONING TO THE LIGHT
In the countryside of northern France he made a garden. And there, Claude Monet, as he grew old and his eyesight failed him, perceived and painted sunlight and water, trees and flowers, as no one ever had before. He literally … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Anna Bijns, Chagall, Claude Monet, Delacroix, Durand-Ruel, Einstein, Ernest Hoschede, Gimpel Art, Heisenberg, Impressionism, Impressionist Art, James Clerk Maxwell, Manet, Marc Chagall, Marcel Proust, Monet Giverny, Picasso, Rodin, Seurat, W.A. Roberts
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FAMILIAR TRUTHS IN ''A PIMP'S PROFESSION''
“I never knew of but one artist, and this is Tom Eakins, who could resist the temptation to see what they think ought to be rather than what is.” – Walt Whitman. If the self-portrait below does not appear especially jubilant, … Continue reading
ENEMIES IN ARMS
In politics, the revolutionary radical of today regularly becomes the totalitarian Grand Inquisitor of tomorrow. This is no less true in art: institutional and administrative dedication to freedom often produced a rigid conformity.Or as Hannah Arendt once said, ” The … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Wyeth, Bouguereau, Cabanel, Cezanne, Charles Dickens, Edward Hopper, Ernst, Frank Norris, Guggenheim, Hannah Arendt, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Tinguely, Joan Miro, John Chamberlain, Manet, Mark Twain, Matisse, Max Ernst, miro, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, Peggy Guggenheim, Peter Blume, Picasso, Renoir, Thomas Hart Benton, Van Gogh
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