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dragon: fly the friendly skies
Up in smoke. It’s the jeer of the dragon. That charming scaly fellow. In Western iconography, the dragon, generally speaking, is a writhing symbol of evil, even of the Devil himself. But to the Chinese it is a benevolent heavenly … Continue reading
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Tagged chen jung, chen rong, chinese new year, chinese new year 4709, daoist philosophy, don ed hardy, ed hardy, Peter Paul Rubens, raphael paintings, raphello sanzio, Renaissance Art, year of the dragon
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ABSTRACT EMOTIVE DEVICES: Pathos of a Single Perpetual Moment
Rogier van der Weyden, if for a moment he can be regarded as a pure stylist, is an unexcelled master designer. The Magdalen at the far right of “Deposition” is one of the most exquisitely costumed and patterned figures in … Continue reading
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Tagged Craig Harbison, Da Vinci, Elizabeth Losh, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish Art, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Kim Woods, Laura Gelfand, Leonardo Da Vinci, Linda Seidel, Michael Glover, Mitchell B. Meiback, Mitchell B. Meibeck, Pierre Bordieu, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, suzie nash
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GUILTY and SATISFIED: Just Above Paradise
Within a single generation early in the fifteenth century, three Flemish artists gave final, consummate expression to the Gothic spirit. … There was a fascination with the world for its own sake , as a visual phenomenon, that was allied … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Labedzki, Craig Harbison, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Edwin Hall, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Hubert van Eyck, Irwin Panofsky, James Snyder, Jan van Eyck, Kim Woods, Laura Gelfand, Linda Seidel, Northern Renaissance Art, Pacht, Patrick Bernauw, Peter Voorn, Peter Vroom, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Susan Jones Caldwell College, suzie nash, The Lost Dutchman
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#FLEMISH EYE: Sanctity of the Bourgeois
All that is needed to appreciate Flemish painting, Michelangelo once observed, are two eyes and an interest in facts. He was alluding to the intense realism, the extreme precision, and the illusionistic impression of light and atmosphere with which the … Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Hours Bruges, Erasmus, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Joachim Patinir, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Linda Seidel, Michelangelo, Northern Renaissance Art, Petrus Christus, Quentin Massys, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden
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PERSPECTIVE: Uncanny Leaps of Expression and Identity
Within a single generation early in the fifteenth-century, three Flemish artists gave final, consummate expression to the Gothic spirit… Perspective, as a systematic distortion paralleling the action of the eye- which is all perspective is, mechanically- becomes a form of … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Labedzki, Arnofini van eyck, Craig Harbison, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Stephen Zucker, Edwin Hall, Elizabeth Losh, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Jan van Eyck, Jenny Graham, John Haber, John Haber Art, Laura Gelfand, Linda Seidel, Master of Flémalle, Northern Renaissance Art, Peter Voorn, Pierre Bordieu, Renaissance Art, Robert Campin, Rogier van der Weyden, The Lost Dutchman
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SACRAMENTS OF MARRIAGE: Take Your Shoes Off
Jan van Eyck, of all artists, is the one who proves that turning to the world need not mean reduction to the commonplace, and of all his paintings, the double portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his bride, Jeanne Cenami, is … Continue reading
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Tagged Annette Labedzki, Arnofini van eyck, Craig Harbison, Dale Kent, Edwin Hall, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Flemish painting, Hubert van Eyck, Irwin Panofsky, Jan van Eyck, Jean Wilson, Linda Seidel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Martin Gardner, Northern Renaissance Art, Patrick Bernauw, Peter Voorn, Renaissance Art, Susan Jones Caldwell College, The Lost Dutchman, William P. Coleman
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MANTEGNA: MASTER OF THE FANTASTIC & THE TERRIBLE
The gruesome, the tragic and the triumphant that could be depicted with paradoxical decorative elegance. His manner was prickly, his life was mundane and methodical, his painting was poised and static; why then should he have so much power to … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Andrea Mantegna, Antonio Maineri, artemisia Gentileschi, Bernardino da Parenzo, Caravaggio, Correggio, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Ettore Camesasca, Gilbert de Bourbon, Giorgio Vasari, Gustave Dore, Isabelle d'Este, Jack M. Greenstein, Jacopo Bellini, Keith Christianson, Lodovico Gonzaga, Mantegna, Nick Milne, Paul Kristeller, Renaissance, Renaissance Art, Robert Hughes, Squarcione, Vasari
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PERSPECTIVE ON A VANISHING POINT: THE MATHEMATICS OF OBSESSION
“It was said of Uccello that the discovery of perspective had so impressed him that he spent nights and days drawing objects in foreshortening, and setting himself ever new problems. His fellow artists used to tell that he was so … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Einstein, Andrea Mantegna, Botticelli, Brenda Harness, Della Carda, Donatello, Donatello Gattamelata, E.H. Gombrich, E.H. Gomrich, Filippo Brunelleschi, Gentile Bellini, Giacomo Trivulzio, Jan van Eyck, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leon Battista Alberti, Leonardo Da Vinci, Paolo Uccello, Pieter van Eyck, Renaissance Art, Rick Steves, Riemann, Uccello, Van Eyck, Vasari
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KEEPING THE DRAMA UNDER CONTROL
His father’s life had been filled with scandal and he spent time in prison. In contrast, Rubens was a devoted family man and led a peaceful life. Sir Dudley Carlton, one of his admirers, described Rubens as “prince of painters and … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrea Mantegna, Annibile Carraci, Caravaggio, Correggio, Counter Reformation, Giulio Romano, Guido Reni, Homer, Italian Renaissance, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Justus Lipsius, Mannerist Art, Mannerist painting, Paolo Veronese, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Rembrandt, Renaissance Art, Seneca, Sir Dudley Carlton, Stoicism, Tintoretto, Titian
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300 POUNDS OF JOY: THE SKINNY ON THE FLABBY
Fat flabby annie was incredibly big She weighed just about sixteen stone And then a fake dietician went and put her on a diet Now she looks like skin and bone. Do the meditation and yoga And she’s thrown away … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Ferre, Andre the Giant, Andre the Giant Ferre, Belushi and Ackroyd, Belushi and Aykroyd, Biblical Nephilim, Bruce Snowdon, Cary Grant, Diane Arbus Jewish Giant, Dionysis, Fit Light Yogurt, Harold Huge, Ibrahim and Sugar Cube, Ibrahim the Mad, Isaac Cruikshank, L.C. Geerts, Mae West, Marc Hartzman, Marie Adams and the Three Tons of Joy, Obesity, Ray Davies, Renaissance Art, Richard Wagner, Ron English, Shakespeare Falstaff, The Kinks, The Pete Lewis Band, Titian, Valkyrie Brunhilde, Ward Hall, William Heath, William Shakespeare, Zeuss
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