Tag Archives: Thomas Gainsborough

blissful idleness

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Dave

Perhaps the greatest of all social revolutions, and one of enormous economic consequences not that profoundly explored, began in the eighteenth-century,when Europe grew not only rich enough to support a large class of non-workers, but also began to organize the … Continue reading →

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conversation pieces

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Dave

The collage work of Peter Blake and Jann Haworth remains one of the most iconic works of design in pop culture. But, these types of original work are not created in a vaccum and there was an English tradition of … Continue reading →

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hallmark of a fake authenticity

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Art

There are just some things more important than money. That may be a heresy in America, but its truth… Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ): A while back I wrote about ‘fake psych’ (or as i like to call it, “hallmark … Continue reading →

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vice is the spice of life

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Dave

Prim and proper? Hardly. But, it was jolly old England. Refreshingly, they were not politically correct. The PC Nazi/Yuppie was in an idyllic, and mythological future. It really began with William Hogarth. Hogarth was the first of these new artists … Continue reading →

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duchess of alba: seven year fling

Posted on March 12, 2011 by Dave

At about the time that Goya began work on the “Caprichos” , he also began his famous but always somewhat ambiguous affair with the Duchess of Alba, probably the most vivid figure that her society produced. In 1795 she visited … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, George Romney, John Flaxman, Joshua Reynolds, Kenneth Clark, Liz Hager, Robert Hughes, Rose-Marie Hagen, Sarah Symmons, The Duchess of Alba, Thomas Gainsborough | Leave a comment

FAME & Celebrity: Providing a Reliable Supply of Sensations

Posted on January 12, 2011 by Dave

The quest for fame has always been a central motive for poets and artists; from David’s psalms and Aristophanes plays, the need to transcend has been as evident as the human ego. Celebrity, however, has always been the volatile,unpredictable and … Continue reading →

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ROYAL COLLECTORS: DROLL PRINCES AND PRICELESS PAINTINGS

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Dave

Sometimes, it may be wiser to not have loved and lost, or to have bothered even loving at all…especially in the case of the portraits of King Henry VIII’s wives. Nonetheless, the British royal Collection is a fascinating grouping of … Continue reading →

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DISTURBING THE RHYTHM OF COMEDY

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Dave

Epic deception. And arriving at the altar with a faint pulse.That was the view of Sarah Fielding, author and sister of Henry Fielding. The epic notion of the “great end” enters the comic novel as the marriage that sanctifies the culture … Continue reading →

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WATTEAU:EMBEDDED LANGUAGE AS AN ART OF LIVING

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Dave

There is always two contradictory dimensions which Watteau’s paintings contain. On the one hand there is melancholy pleasure signifying sadness, the metaphysics of pleasure; on the other hand, a libertine pleasure without any metaphysical meaning, pleasure which signifies only itself: … Continue reading →

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CELEBRITY AS REBELLION TO REASON: An Age of the Enlightened Groupie

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Dave

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 →