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CELEBRITY AS REBELLION TO REASON: An Age of the Enlightened Groupie
The popular culture’s notion that geniuses were crazy certainly received support from the excesses of many of the Romantic artists of the nineteenth century, who had their share of obsessive, manic, and ecstatic behaviors. Further, the “mad scientist” in literature … Continue reading
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BEGINNING OF THE NAMELESS SOMETHING: PROMETHEUS for all
Monarch of Gods and Dæmons, and all Spirits But One, who throng those bright and rolling worlds Which Thou and I alone of living things Behold with sleepless eyes! regard this Earth Made multitudinous with thy slaves, whom thou Requitest … Continue reading
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REAL MAD, SOMEWHAT BAD & A LOT OF KITSCH
Henry Fuseli’s ghostly and frightening subject-matter was a visual continuum of the Gothic novel, which developed an aesthetics of terror and horror, was occupied with dreams and the unconscious, and often looked back to the feudal world. Fuseli once said, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred de Musset, Anne-Louis Girodet, Bellenger, Charles Nodier, Donald Kuspit, Donizetti, E.H. Gombrich, Erich Fromm, Ernst Gombrich, Etienne-Jean Georget, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Friedrich Holderlin, Gérard de Nerval, Henry Fuseli, Horace Walpole, Jacques-Louis David, John Milton, John Ruskin, Louis Sass, Marquis de Sade, Michel Foucault, Nikolaus Lenau, Rembrandt, Robert Schumann, Samuel taylor Coleridge, Simon Schama, Soren Kierkegaard, Suzi Gablik, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Victor Hugo, William Blake
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US AND THEM: THE MADCAP LAUGHS
Henry Fuseli’s painting “The Mandrake” , now lost, struck the aging Horace Walpole as “shockingly mad, madder than ever, quite mad!” But Fuseli would hardly have regarded that as an insult. Much of the time he was trading on madness … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Price, Donizetti, Dr. Georget De La Folie, Dr. Georget psychiatrist, Ernst Gombrich, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Liszt, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, George Crabbe, Gericault, Goethe, Henry Fuseli, Holman Hunt, Horace Walpole, John Buchan, John Everett Millais, John Milton, John Milton Paradise Lost, Joseph Anton Koch, Lord Byron, Milton, Milton Paradise Lost, Philip V. Allingham, Shakespeare, Simon Schama, Sir Walter Scott, Stanley Kubrick, Tasso, Theodore Gericault, Thomas De Quincey, Torquato Tasso, Wilhelm Heinse, William Blake, William Holman Hunt
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AN ABHORRENCE FOR GLOSSY MIRACLES OF TECHNIQUE
“It was a real learning experience,” she recalls, “to sit for hours with great paintings and get inside an artist’s head to see the logic of how he put the painting together.” Reflecting upon earlier artists who have influenced her … Continue reading
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Tagged C.J. Holmes, Charles Nodier, Cuyp, English Landscape painting, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Fisher, John R. Kemp, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Joshua Reynolds, London Royal Academy of Arts, Maria Bicknell, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard McKinley, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Susan Downy-White, Theodore Gericault, Thomas Gainsborough, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth
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A SALTY DOG FLOATS ON
‘All hands on deck, we’ve run afloat!’ I heard the captain cry ‘Explore the ship, replace the cook: let no one leave alive!’ Across the straits, around the Horn: how far can sailors fly? A twisted path, our tortured course, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Gregoire, Albert Alhadeff, Alexander Correard, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Bernardino Fergioni, Bonaventura Peeters, Caravaggio, Charles Darwin, Claude Joseph Vernet, Danby, Douglas Kellner, Ernst Bloch, Eugene Delacroix, Eugene Isabey, Flaubert, Francis Danby, George P. Landow, Gericault, Henri Savigny, Ivan Aivazovsky, JMW Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Keith Reid, Lorenz Eitner, Michelangelo, Robin Spencer, Tennyson, The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, Willard Spiegelman, William Falconer
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THE HOPE PRINCIPLE
The Medusa, a naval frigate, ran aground off Mauritania in July 1816. Only about 250 of the 400 people on board could fit into the lifeboats. On a jerry-built raft about 150 of the others were set adrift. By the … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Alhadeff, Alexander Correard, Berlioz, Charles Darwin, Chaumariex Medusa, De Musset, Ernst Bloch, Frederic Chopin, French Romantic Art, Gericault, Henri Savigny, Jacques-Louis David, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Robin Spencer, Romanticism Painting, The Raft of the Medusa, Theodore Gericault, Willard Spiegelman
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MAN-EATERS: MASTERPIECE OF THE RAW & UNCOOKED
The cannibal in written records was originally a story about what existed beyond the boundaries of the known. It kept the wild and the civic state apart. Sometimes, however, it brought them together: Othello seduced Desdemona with his tales of … Continue reading
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