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nobility of the common folk
The eighteenth century was reality of a different kind of grand and noble. In fact, the reality was more prosaic, banal and mundane, or at least it appeared so to a casual eye. It was a different perspective on what … Continue reading
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Tagged Guy Debord, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Simeon Chardin
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manon lescaut: desire as the search for transcendence
Perfide Mnon and Abbe Prevost. She was the classic cocotte, he the classic dupe; first the Abbe wrote his famous story, Manon Lescaut, and then he set out to live it… …Soon the Abbe Prevost stood on the edge of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Prevost Manon Lescaut, Claire-Eliane Engel, Emile Zola, Frederic Deloffre Sorbonne, Jean Antoine Watteau, Lenki Eckhardt, Louis de Moni painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Sir John Eyles
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something about clowns
Why do we need clowns? Perhaps because, in Francis Bacon’s words, “There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise. ” … Of all the images that people have created for themselves, none is as … Continue reading
something doesn’t smell right
And thus spake Zarathustra…Business is business, but in terms of public relations its not the most exciting coup of the year. That a German investment group that according to Der Spiegel made its pile of loot from conficated jewish property … Continue reading
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liberation: french identity on the short leash
The liberation of Mme de Tencin. From convent to court, from bank to boudoir, she was always prone to argue. It was the end of the Louis XIV reign, a hey-day of cynical license that characterized the Regency period that … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Dubois, Abbe Prevost, Abbe Raynal, Abbe Tencin, Chevalier Destouches, Claudine Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin, Claudine de Tencin, D'Alembert, Fontenelle, Helvetius, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Le Rond, John Law The Mississippi Bubble, La Fresnais and Mme de Tencin, La Fresnais suicide, Lord Bolingbroke, Lord Chesterfield, Manon Lescaut, Marivaux, Matthew Prior, Mme de Tencin, Montesquieu, Pyramus-and-Thisbe, Voltaire, Voltaire in the Bastille
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tender temple
The tender romance of Cupid and Psyche is the central theme of this fragile Meissen “Temple of Love” also called Temple of Honour, conceived in the gay rococo spirit of eighteenth-century Europe. Behind the lovers, Venus rides her peacock on … Continue reading
get rich quick : bubbles in biloxi
He was brilliant. But he was something of a scoundrel. Some of the ideas were there that bore resemblance to John Maynard Keynes. Some of the ideas were there that resembled the classic stock swindle and Ponzi scheme, mortgage backed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernard Madoff, Jean Antoine Watteau, John Law, John Law Mississippi Bubble, John Maynard Keynes, Lady Catherine Senor, Lord Banbury, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Montesquieu, Niall Ferguson, Philippe d'Orleans, Voltaire, William Hogarth
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a gendered gaze
Exactly how many pieces of art are in the Louvre is not clear. At the most extreme is the assertion that there are 300,000 paintings and a minimum of 5,000 and the total pieces of art ranging from 35,000 to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertrand Russell, camille morineau, Damien Hirst, Francois Boucher, Georges Seurat, Honoré Fragonard, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Maurice Quentin de La Tour
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matters of taste and waste
Artistic dependency on money? Art as a cash crop, growing money and not the fertility of artistic endeavor. The effects of urban , cosmopolitan culture on the arts probably stretched back to the Renaissance, but it may have been Watteau … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Trollope, Charles Baudelaire, Francois Boucher, Jean Antoine Watteau, Johan Zoffany, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, Robert Browning, T.H. Huxley, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, William Powell Frith
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gardens of magnificence
We have no idea what the Garden of Eden resembled. Painters have generally rendered it as a flowering green background to highlight Eve’s white nakedness. What we do know is that humanity from the start has delighted in gardens. In … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Andre Le Notre, francis bacon on gardens, Francois Boucher, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis XIV, Louis XIV Sun King, Moliere, Nicolas Poussin, renaissance gardens, Sir Francis Bacon, thomas traherne
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