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poussin: transposing the poets’s world
Just as it abstracts the figures in the foreground, Nicolas Poussin’s geometry opens up nature in the background. The narrow dramatic stage now gives way to a landscape so vast that, it appears it would take more than a day … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew butterfield, Claude Lorrain, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Goethe, John Haber Art, Keith Christiansen, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, olivier bonfait, Pierre Rosenberg, Richard Wollheim, William Hazlitt
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poussin: showing your peasant
As Mondrian himself and many others have proved, mathematical perfection has a finality which is often fatal to art. That was a danger that threatened Nicolas Poussin. What saved him was the reappearance, around 1650, of a side of his … Continue reading
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Tagged andrea del sarto, ann sutherland harris, Claude Lorrain, Corot, ed ruscha, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Gentile Bellini, Georges Seurat, Keith Christiansen, Nicolas Poussin, olivier bonfait, paul bril, Paul Cezanne, Pierre Rosenberg, Piet Mondrian, silvia ginzburg, Sir Kenneth Clark, thomas cole the course of empire, Titian
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poussin the golden: divine means of abstract geometrical truth
He tried to live in France from 1640-42, called back by King Louis XIII and the urging of Cardinal Richelieu who felt it imperative that France had greater artistic luster.Claude Lorrain was also compelled to return. Poussin had been appointed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernini, Cardinal Richelieu, Claude Levi-Strauss, Claude Lorrain, Clement Greenberg, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Keith Christiansen, king louis XIII, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Rosenberg, Richard Wollheim, Sir Kenneth Clark
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IMPOSSIBLE WORLD: DISILLUSIONED SOULS AS A REFRAMED VALUE
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
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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
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WATTEAU & UTOPIA ON STANDBY: THE GHOSTS OF STYLE
Should we let bygones be bygone eras?These are precious, because Watteau’s paintings so unmistakably draw meaning from and give memorable form to a certain now far distant subculture.He is a master of in-between situations….Watteau introduced just such a change of … Continue reading
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Tagged Calvin Seerveld, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Donald Posner, Edouard Manet, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Giovanni Morelli, James Panero, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Jonathan Wintle, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Karen Rosenberg, Lacan, Lisa MacDonald, Marcel Duchamp, Mary Vidal, Michael Levey, Michel Foucault, N.F. Karlins, Nicolas Poussin, Perrin Stein, Pierre Rosenberg, Robert Baldwin, Robert Mealy, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Cohen, Sigmund Freud, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Crow, Watteau
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