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Tag Archives: Theophile Gautier
alhambra
It evokes a setting for the Arabian Nights… The Moors disapproved of representational art, and the Alhambra is chiefly adorned with geometric designs in a wealth of variation. Inscriptions in Arabic or Kufic characters are integral with the stucco decoration. … Continue reading
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Tagged Al-Ahmar Alhambra, al-Khatib chronicler, Alhambra Granada, Alhambra Palace, Charles V Spain, Ferdinand III Castile, Hall of the Two Sisters Alhambra, King Ferdinand Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sultans Nasrid Dynasty, Theophile Gautier, University of Granada, Washington Irving, Yusef I Nasrid Dynasty
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Alhambra: languid but not tranquil
Despite its languid and sensuous atmosphere, the palace was anything but tranquil. Twenty-one rulers in 254 years means an average of about one every twelve years. Since both al-Ahmar and Yusef I had comfortably long reigns of forty-one and twenty-one … Continue reading
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Tagged Abencerrages execution Granada, Al-Ahmar Alhambra, Alhambra Granada, Alhambra Palace, Alhambra Patio de los Leones, Emilio Garcia Gomez, King Ferdinand Spain, King Philip II Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Nasrid kings, Nasrid Kings of Granada, Queen Isabella Spain, Theophile Gautier, Washington Irving, Yusuf I Granada
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tiny bubbles
A Cluster of Soap Bubbles is how Theophile Gautier described the decoration of the Alhambra. Yet in spite of its fragility, it has survived many a more substantial palace, and lastingly evokes a setting for The Arabian Nights. Of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Alhambra, Alhambra Granada, Boabdil of Granada, King Ferdinand Spain, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mohammed XI Boabdil, Nasrid Kings of Granada, Queen Isabella Spain, Theophile Gautier, Washington Irving
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revolutionary for reason: consciousness of a tragic humanity
Horror. The world one usually associates with the work of Goya. Even in his brilliant early years as a court painter, an air of evil hung suspiciously in the background of his rococo paintings. Then, after his illness, they lept … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, Dante Alighieri, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, goya Black paintings, Goya's Ghosts, Kenneth Clark, Michel Serres, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, Theophile Gautier
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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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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
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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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Not in my salon
Few styles fell so far into disrepute as the once-prized academic art of the nineteenth-century.Bad as most of it really was, some of it did not deserve the exile it had received. This banishment of French Salon paintings took a … Continue reading
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Tagged Bouguereau, Duveau, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, French Salon painting, Gustave Courbet, Honore Daumier, Jan Vermeer, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Francois Millet, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Millet, Pierre Auguste Cot, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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REAL IMPRESSIONS: NOBLESSE OBLIGE LESS
In contrast with Post-Impressionism and the avant-garde trends of the twentieth century the painters of French Naturalism and Impressionism rarely gave verbal expression to their aesthetics. “The most solid base for the work of art is reality constantly studied.” ( … Continue reading
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Tagged Auguste Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Beth Archer Brombert, Camille Mauclair, Camille Pissarro, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Frédéric Bazille, George Heard Hamilton, George T. Noszlopy, Gustave Caillebotte, Gustave Courbet, Gustave Flaubert, Gustave Moreau, Julie Lorenzen, Kate Flint, Manet Olympia, Marcelin Desboutin, Monty English, Pater the Dutchman, Philbert Louis Debucourt, Stephane Mallarme, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, Victorine Meurent
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COUNTRY LIFE: IS PARIS BLUSHING?
He was a painter trained in the staid academic tradition but too exuberant to be constrained by it: He was influenced by the old masters, particulary Velazquez and Goya, but Manet reasoned that ones art should reflect ideas and ideals of … Continue reading
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Tagged Caragh Thuring, Charles Baudelaire, Claude Monet, David Alan Brown, Denis Diderot, Diego Velazquez, Edouard Manet, Francisco Goya, Gilles Néret, Gustave Courbet, Jim Lane, L. Schlain, Lisa MacDonald, Manet, Marcantonio Raimondi, Paul Cezanne, Peter Paul Rubens, Raphael, Salvador dali, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, Titian, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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