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Tag Archives: Sir Edwin Landseer
the undraped: Of anecdotal interest
There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Cabanel Birth of Venus, Edouard Manet, edouard manet olympia, Emperor Napoleon III, French Salon Art, John Wolfe banker, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Rosa Bonheur, Sarah Bernhardt, Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, Sir Edwin Landseer
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back to the salon: trititude and tritism
A labored avant-garde, hack mediocrity, tired formula and mixing the sauce on old recipes resulting in a living fabric of life being transposed into a theatrical event? Its possible the avant garde today is decoration catering to mediocre tastes much … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Jacques Ranciere, jean-louis meissonier, jean-louis picard, Joseph Beuys, Kazimir Malevich, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, marshall berman, Peter Burger, peter watson, Sir Edwin Landseer, Wassily Kandinsky
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hot, cold and rough press
Last week there was a post on Arches watercolor paper and how for name recognition, it serves as the point of reference. Fact is, watercolor paper has been around a while, and though Voltaire and Bonaparte wasted gobs of the … Continue reading
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Tagged edwin landseer, jmw turner watercolor, langton Daler-Rowney, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, paul sandby watercolor, Sir Edwin Landseer, watercolor paper, William Blake, william blake watercolor, winsor & Newton watercolor paper
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conspicuous posturing
The lessons we learn today from Victorian painting are primarily of a documentary order; and the works in question should perhaps not be considered under the heading of painting at all, but rather as adjuncts and auxiliaries of the Victorian … Continue reading
falcons: separating the emperor from the kings
Thirteenth-century monarchs were not expected to be accomplished writers, much less scientists, so it is fairly extraordinary that Frederick the Great himself wrote the book that is regarded as the first work of modern zoology: Of the Art of Hunting … Continue reading
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Tagged beniamino inserra, carlo trabia, casey a. wood, Eugene Delacroix, eugene fromentin, f. marjorie fyfe, falconry, frederick II, Frederick the Great, h.t. ryall engraver, james howe art, malcolm fleming esq., michael scott astrologer, Oliver Cromwell, Sir Edwin Landseer, W.B. Yeats
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In search of the ubiquitous anecdote for the rank and file
To categorize pictures of the Salon type, whether by any subject or criteria, one could belabor each of the many types- the noble peasant, the Oriental, the jolly peasant, melancholy old ladies, religious pictures, the allegories- but in the end … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Charles Baudelaire, Eduard Charlemont, Eugene Delacroix, Gustave Courbet, Jean Leon Gerome, Joseph J. Rishel, Sir Edwin Landseer, Theophile Gautier, W.P. Frith, William Dyce, William Powell Frith
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the undraped: Of anecdotal interest
There are few styles in art that fell so far into disrepute as the once prized academic art of the nineteenth-century. As awful as much of it was, there are still grounds for some of it to be redeemable and … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Andrew Graham Dixon, Edouard Manet, Ferdinand Georg Waldmuller, French Salon painting, Jean Leon Gerome, Jehan Georges Vibert, John Wolfe, Manet Olympia, Rosa Bonheur, Sir Edwin Landseer, Titian Venus of Urbino, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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salon not saloon? : against the assaults of boors and madmen
In practice the Academy became a closed circle of conventional talents , of men skilled equally in he manipulation of trite formulas for painting and the manipulation of advantageous personal contacts. The situation was deplorable, but it was also inevitable. … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Baudelaire, Bouguereau, Claude Lorrain, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Henri Guillaume Schlesinger, Honoré Fragonard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jehan Georges Vibert, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Delaroche, Schlesinger, Sir Edwin Landseer, Theophile Gautier, Vibert, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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