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Tag Archives: Paul Gauguin
muse without meals : manna and madness
The timeless stereotype of the mad artist dies hard. But, sometimes there are a few kernels of truth within the myth, or enough examples to sustain it. It seems axiomatic to state that artists have always, with certain exceptions, been … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Cindy Sherman, Consumerism, consumerist society, Damien Hirst, daniel celentano, Franz Kafka, gene kelly, Guy Debord, hans abbing, harry hopkins, Jeff Koons, Joan Miro, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kafka the hunger artist, kathleen powers erickson, Paul Gauguin, Richard Prince, sherry stern, starving artists, Vincent Van Gogh, Walter Benjamin, wilfred arnold
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vincent in arles: goodbye yellow brick house
… then in February 1888, during a snowstorm, came a Dutchman who saw Arles as the city had been waiting to be seen- a miracle of color beneath the golden sun. Vincent van Gogh adored “the sun pouring down bright … Continue reading
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Tagged Daumier, Emile Bernard, Eugene Delacroix, Gauguin, Ingres, Jean-Francois Millet, Martin Gayford, Paul Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Robert Freedman, Theo van Gogh, Van Gogh, van Gogh in Arles, Vincent Van Gogh
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steal, conceal, & no deal : Blood Canvas
The theft of Art from occupied and conquered countries by the Nazis has been well-documented, and the complex legal issues in the recovery of stolen art, and legal title continues to be an emotional and divisive issue that touches more … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albrecht Durer, Anthony F. Anderson, Auguste Renoir, Bess Hormats, Claude Manet, Colin Woodward, Edouard Manet, Edward Elicofon, Egon Schiele, Francisco Goya, Greg Bradshaw, Harry Gursky, Leo Tolstoy, Lynn Nicholas, Marc Chagall, Matilda Battersby, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Paul Hirschkorn, Priam's Treasure of Ancient Troy, Rembrandt, Richard B. Jackson, Rob Cameron, Robert E. Lester, Robert M. Edsel, Toledo Museum of Art, Wassily Kandinsky
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MATISSE: Cut,Paste & Taste
That Matisse would abandon oil painting and adopt a new technique so late in his career was a surprise to many people, although it need not have been. Paper cutouts were, of course, convenient for a semi-invalid, but Matisse had … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Derain, Brian O'Doherty, Fauvism, Gertrude Stein, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Henri-Edmond Cross, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Matisse Paper cut-out, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Raoul Dufy, Riva Castleman, Van Gogh
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PAPER TIGERS : Hunting Traces of Solitude And GAIETY
In art sometimes, the more things change, the more nothing is the same. The paper cutouts were Matisse’s final flowering; a last expression of this articulation of traces of solitude and gaiety, what he called “the eternal conflict between drawing … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Derain, Christopher Cook, Edmond Variel, Fauves, Friesz, Georges Braque, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Canaday, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Picasso, Raoul Dufy, Riva Castleman, Sergei Shchukin, Ted Nash
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MATISSE: KEEP SQUEEZING THE TUBE
One summer, early in the twentieth century, Henri Matisse, on the advice of Picasso, took his family to the seashore at Collioure in the south of France. There, in the light of the Mediterranean, a new way of painting came … Continue reading
MATISSE:An Inner Loneliness of Precious Time
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known….No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.( Oscar Wilde ) The birth of a wild … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Derain, Ambroise Vollard, Andre Derain, Cezanne, Fauvism, Gavin Parkinson, Georges Braque, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac
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ARCADIAN FANTASY: Mediterranean State of Mind
One summer early in the twentieth century,Henri Matisse took his family to the seashore. There, in the light of the Mediterranean, a new way of painting came forth. …. Picasso was the one who suggested that Henri Matisse and his … Continue reading
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Tagged Alain Derain, Corot, Fauvism, Gavin Parkinson, Georges Braque, Georges Seurat, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Juan Gris, Maurice de Vlaminck, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Picasso, Vincent Van Gogh
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