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Tag Archives: Rembrandt
unjust desserts: who needs a birthright?
Food need not be a mere necessity of life… …In the annals of cookery, even a simple mess of pottage can prove significant. Pottage, a hearty soup that is simple to make and satisfying to the appetite, is to this … Continue reading
golan heights and bottoms: grand designs
New cover versions of an old song. Through terror and clamor they can win concessions, and that the Israelis are willing to sacrifice their security bit by bit to win temporary calm. From time to time there is an ebb, … Continue reading
the wright stuff
Joseph Wright of Derby was the first English painter to take his themes from science, and his titles were as precise as his details. The picture below, exhibited in 1766, was called A Philosopher giving that Lecture on the Orrery … Continue reading
boundaries and limits
Does light always shine through the cracks. What if the foundation is cracked? Well, it can be fixed, probably cheaper than a tear down. Leonard Cohen once said in a song that “Judaism is full of cracks, that’s how the … Continue reading
absolute shower of gold
Van Gogh spent a little more than two years in Arles and its environs, painting the burning light and indelible shadows of Arles… The city languished under the Provencal sun, adding to its collection of interesting buildings during the Renaissance … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Aaron Sheon, Arles Vincent van Gogh, Fernand Leger, Gilbert Rose, John Gedo, Kaiser-Friedrich Museum, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Rothko, monks of montmajour, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin, Rembrandt, Van Ens dutch engineer, Van Gogh Arles, Vincent Van Gogh
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period productions
The shock of the new. A trauma involving a break in the continuity of existence… Which Picasso? As great an impresario as he was a painter, Picasso in his lifetime had produced a whole repertory of artists bearing the same … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Beck, art patronage Europe, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Frederick the Great Prussia, Lancret, Leonardo Da Vinci, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Maurizio Cattelan, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Pater, Picasso Circus period, Rembrandt, Voltaire, Watteau
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and they got their butts kicked
Essence, body and soul. Everything in perfect harmony. And the bad guys got whipped big time. Apparently. But that’s all water under the bridge, even if that H2O is a bit salty with tears. And they really do want the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Gershom Scholem, Harold Bloom, Jan Victors, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, matisyahu, Pieter Lastman, Purim jewish holiday, purimpalooza, Rabbi Langer San Francisco, Rembrandt, rembrandt the jewish bride, San Francisco Chabad, Van Gogh
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portrait or spitting image
There is always a complex psychological relationship between the sitter and the painter, since the explosive issue of the construction of identity is a potent assemblage that continues to adapt itself in the modern world. But its often an ambivalent … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian Searle, anne purves, Augustus John, british art journal, darren baker, Graham Sutherland, Jamie Reid The Sex Pistols, john brack, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Lucian Freud, Rembrandt, robin simon, Rogier van der Weyden, rolf harris, sam fullbrook, sebastien smee, sir john kiszely, yousuf karsh
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