Tag Archives: Pierre Crozat

IMPOSSIBLE WORLD: DISILLUSIONED SOULS AS A REFRAMED VALUE

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Dave

Jean Antoine Watteau( 1684-1721) was thirty-three when he painted “Embarkation” . Two years later in 1719 he went to London to sonsult Dr. Richard mead, the queen’s physician, and was there subjected to such treatment as the best medical knowledge … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Antoine Crozat, Auguste Renoir, Calvin Seerveld, Camille Mauclair, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Donald Posner, Edouard Manet, Etienne Jeurat, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Frederic Chopin, Georgia Cowart, Helene Adhemar, Jakob Rosenberg, James Panero, Jean Baptiste Francois Pater, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Karen Rosenberg, Kit Andrews, Lancret, Lisa MacDonald, Martha Rosler, Mary D. Sheriff, Mary Vidal, Monika Szewczyk, Nicolas Lancret, Perrin Stein, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Crozat, Pierre Rosenberg, R.H. Wilenski, René Huyghe, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Thomas Crow, Walter Pater | 2 Comments

WATTEAU:EMBEDDED LANGUAGE AS AN ART OF LIVING

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Dave

There is always two contradictory dimensions which Watteau’s paintings contain. On the one hand there is melancholy pleasure signifying sadness, the metaphysics of pleasure; on the other hand, a libertine pleasure without any metaphysical meaning, pleasure which signifies only itself: … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged André Campra, Antoine Crozat, Antoine Houdard de la Motte, Charles Le Brun, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Gérard de Nerval, Jacques Callot, Jean Antoine Houdard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mary D. Sheriff, Mary Vidal, Michael Levey, Michel Foucault, N.F. Karlins, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Crozat, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Sev, Thomas Crow, Thomas Gainsborough, Titian, Walter Pater, Watteau, William Hogarth | Leave a comment

FORBIDDEN WORLD:IN THE SHADOW OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Dave

The forbidden world of Watteau. The witness of a life he could not share; one of France’s greatest painters transformed reality into the most poetic and lyrical visions in the history of art…. “This artist who said hardly anything about … Continue reading →