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Tag Archives: Paul Signac
feneon: tweet tweet, he’s got you beat
If Felix Feneon were alive today, he would be the king of the tweet, the master of the micro-blog. Feneon was a Belle Epoque anarchist and dandy with great artistic sensitivity. After avoiding prison through his silver tongued refutation of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Camille Plateel, Felix Feneon, George Orwell, George Seurat, James Joyce, Paul Signac
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terrorism: no innocent victims
…At his trial Emile Henry explained with some pride how he had constructed his bomb according to approved scientific principles and had methodically rehearsed his crime. he was less articulate about why he had picked that particular target. The Cafe … Continue reading
like father like fun
…the almost unknown collection of the grand old man of impressionism was left to an equally unknown museum. At the death of Michel Monet, in 1966, the only son of Claude Monet, the officials knew they were going to get … Continue reading
legacy: last manners
Michel Monet’s rich legacy of art had been casually, not to say carelessly, stacked about his house since 1926. His own tastes ran to hunting trophies and garish African souvenirs. The inheritors had to scramble from attic to cellar, and … Continue reading
fire fire! your moneys on fire
Should good art always make those in positions of power and privilege feel uncomfortable, squirmy, ill at ease and irritated by pangs of consciousness even if irregular. Or is an art that is ostensibly anti banking and money serve to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged alex schaefer artist, aubrey hodes, doug aitken, ed ruscha, Emile Durkheim, Felix Feneon, Gustav Metzger, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Luc Sante, Marcel Mauss, Martin Buber, michael landy breakdown, Nelson Mandela, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Signac, rivonia trial south africa, sam dwyer, steve reich wtc 9/11, stuart home, Tyler Green, Walter Benjamin
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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
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
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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NO PHOTOGRAPHS for OLD MEN
It was the debut of the picture interview. On the eve of his one hundredth and first birthday in 1886, Marie-Eugene Chevreuil, scientist and director of the Gobelin tapestry works, called at the Paris studio of the photographer G.F. Tournachon. … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Avogadro, Cannizzaro, Charles Darwin, G.F Tournachon, G.F. Tournachon Nadar, Georges Seurat, Gobelin Tapestry, Marie-Eugene Chevreul, Mendeleeff, Nadar photography, Paul Signac, Peter Pollack, Willaim A. Smeaton
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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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