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touching a flaming comet
The disordering of the senses. A somewhat romantic and irrational project it was, to glorify the romantic’s seemingly narcissistic obsession with the process of creativity, an earnest concern to find the secret of creativity, like a holy grail, or a … Continue reading
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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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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freudian slide into nihilism
Maybe the problem is a mimicry of art historical forms without connecting to the poetic myths that animated and gave life to these forms. That is, the aura of the profound is a falsification in that the depth of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Auguste Rodin, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Rivera, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Jacob Epstein, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kitty garman, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Sigmund Freud, Sir Kenneth Clark, spruiell, Vincent Van Gogh, william grimes
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the deaf man’s house: paint it black
Somehow with Francisco Goya, we never quite ask why a man whose friends in maturity were among the most enlightened thinkers and the most devoted moralists of the age of reason; a man who, we have kept telling ourselves, shared … Continue reading
3 rd of may: shoot in may and go away
Like all great historical and philosophical themes, analyzing the Third of May is somewhat vulnerable to some superficial and not necessarily valid interpretations. The originality of Goya’s treatment in his depiction of the executioners. Where they might expectedly have be … Continue reading
POMPEII: Dangerously Low Necklines
When the ruins of Pompeii came to light, they caused a revolution in taste-stripping away rococo gilt, reshaping the female figure, and leaving a deposit of pseudo-Greek temples from Moscow to Mississippi- although what sometimes passed for “classical” would have … Continue reading
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Tagged A.O. Lovejoy, Beau Brummell, Boily, Emma Hamilton, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, George Boas, George Romney, Giambattista Piranesi, Giorgio Sommer, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Francois Chalgrin Architect, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Keats, Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn, Max Beerbohm, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard Cosway, Robert Adam Architect, Roger Sandall, Sir Kenneth Clark
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SEURAT:ANY GIVEN SUNNY AFTERNOON
Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte…. sunlight sailboats, parasols and pets: It is easy to take this cheery summer scene for granted… You may never do so again. In his “Confessions of a Young Man” George Moore … Continue reading
SOLILOQUY of the DREAMING ARTIST: Two Natures in One Person
During the Renaissance a new notion of the individual was created. This identity was formed through knowledge based on the relationship of the individual to the world in which they lived. At the time, new forms of knowledge were being … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Bernard Berenson, Carola Naumer, Carr W. Dawson, Charles Hope, Correggio, Dan Starling, David Byron, David Landau, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Georges Coppel, Giorgio Vasari, Giuseppe Fiocco, Iris Origo, Isabella d'Este Ferrara, Jack M. Greenstein, Jane Martineau, Jason Burke, Jonathan Sawday, Keith Christiansen, Leo Steinberg, Leon Battista Alberti, Mantegna, Maud Cruttwell, Michael Kimmelman, Paul Kristeller, Philip Coppens, R.W. Lightbown, Rembrandt, Robert Smith, Sam Taylor-Wood, Simon Abrahams, Sir Kenneth Clark, Squarcione, Stephen Greenblatt, Suzanne Boorsch, Vasari, Venerable Bede
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