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SELF EXAMINATION of a LANGUAGE of SIGNS: The Divine Wavelength
The Tempest has been called the first landscape in the history of Western painting. The subject of this painting is unclear, but its artistic mastery is apparent. The Tempest portrays a soldier and a breast-feeding woman on either side of … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Alexander Roob, Carl Jung, Da Vinci, Dan Brown The Lost Symbol, David Alan Brown, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, E.H. Gombrich, Edgar Wind, Giorgio Vasari, Giovanni Bellini, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, J. Eric Morales, John Read, Joseph Phelan, Julia Luisa Abramson, Kenneth Clark, Lionelli Venturi, Marcia B. Hall, Mark E. Koltko-Rivera, Maurizio Calvesi, Paul Holberton, Raphael, Robert Hughes, Salvatore Settis, Sir Martin Conway, Titian, Vendramin, Waldemar Januszczak, Walter Pater
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PRIVATE LANGUAGE and SACRED CONVERSATIONS
Encounters with robbers in the desert…No need for the cross of salvation?…..An esoteric language, an Aristolean network, an ambiguity, or “pentimenti”–changes of mind— of additional, multiple and complex narratives under the surface….. The mystery intrigues and continues to prevail…. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Christine Junkerman, Aristotle, Bernard Berenson, David Teniers, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, Dr. John Dee, Edgar Wind, George M. Richter, Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, J. Eric Morales, James Elkins, John Dee, Kenneth Clark, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Mary Vidal, Maurizio Calvesi, Paul Holberton, Rona Goffen, Rudolf Schier, Salvatore Settis, Titian, Uffizi, Waldemar Januszczak, Walter Pater, William Glasmeier, Wolfgang Eller
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RHETORIC OF ENIGMA:The Hidden Subject
Giorgione is counted among the world’s great painters, even though only a handful of paintings are certified as certain to be uniquely attributed to him. The “Tempesta” is his most famous work, but its meaning is still unclear. The enigmatic … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Christine Junkerman, Bengt Gustafsson, Bernard Berenson, Contarini, Dr. Francis P. DeStefano, Edgar Wind, Edouard Manet, Ernst Gombrich, Fred Kleiner, George M. Richter, Giorgio Vasari, Giorgione, Giovanni Bellini, Hilary Gatti, Jacopo Sannazzaro, James Elkins, John Ruskin, Julia Luisa Abramson, Kenneth Clark, Lionelli Venturi, Marcia B. Hall, Maurizio Calvesi, Peter Meller, Raphael, Robert Hughes, Rona Goffen, Rudolf Schier, Salvatore Settis, Sigmund Freud, Susan Benford, Titian, Walter Pater
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WATTEAU:EMBEDDED LANGUAGE AS AN ART OF LIVING
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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Tagged André Campra, Antoine Crozat, Antoine Houdard de la Motte, Charles Le Brun, Claude Adran, Claude Gillot, Comte de Caylus, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, Georgia Cowart, Gérard de Nerval, Jacques Callot, Jean Antoine Houdard, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jed Perl, Julian Bell, Julie Anne Plax, Marcel Carne, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Mary D. Sheriff, Mary Vidal, Michael Levey, Michel Foucault, N.F. Karlins, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Crozat, Robert Baldwin, Sarah Cohen, Sev, Thomas Crow, Thomas Gainsborough, Titian, Walter Pater, Watteau, William Hogarth
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MANET: DESIRES OF THE PASSING MOMENT
… and beauty of the eternal. Is love pleasure or desire? The Good, the Bad and those eternal constants. Edouard Manet, proved that he was an observer of a world in constant flux. Through the initial reaction to ”Olympia”, idealism … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexi Worth, Ann Higonnet, Berthe Morisot, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, Daniel Rosenfeld, E.H. Gombrich, Edouard Manet, George Heard Hamilton, James Henry Rubin, Lin Arison, Lisa MacDonald, Michael Johnson, Michel Foucault, Nancy Locke, Nathaniel Harris, Noam Chomsky, Shane Adler Davis, T.J. Clark, Titian
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BEHIND THE NONCOMMITTAL GAZE
Who else? Who but the well bred, courteous Edouard Manet could have put before an astonished public the “female gorilla”, that “gamy courtesan” Olympia? Public and critics were for once unanimous. There could be no two ways about it: Manet … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, Antonin Proust, Auguste Renoir, Berte Morisot, Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Julie Lorenzen, Mallarme, Manet Olympia, Rembrandt, Stephane Mallarme, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Victorine Meurent
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OLYMPIA GAZE: DIRECT AND DEFIANTLY UNACCOMODATING
“On first inspection, one might wonder what all the fuss was about. Manet considered himself a painter of still life, and perhaps that’s why Olympia has such a quiet mystery about her. She lounges serenely, starkly unclad but strategically adorned … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonin Proust, Berthe Morisot, Charles Baudelaire, Diego Velazquez, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Francisco Goya, Julie Lorenzen, Linda MacDonald, Manet Olympia, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Paul Verlaine, Salon des Réfuses, Salon des Réfuses 1863, Stephane Mallarme, T.J. Clark, Titian, Titian Venus of Urbino, Victorine Meurant
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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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