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historic surprises
Unless we grasp that the historical process can always take men and their societies by surprise, we shall fail to understand our own immediate dangers, or indeed, our opportunities. Tides can suddenly break old barriers in a matter of hours … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, Carlyn Beccia, Citizen Jean-Baptiste Belley, Diego Velasquez, Granville Sharp, Jean Leon Gerome, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Slave Market Liverpool, Slave Trade eighteenth century, Slave Trade nineteenth century
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balls and chains
How the ideas and attitudes of a handful of intellectuals and thinkers becomes, quite suddenly, a powerful social force, remains a mystery and is not well understood. The monumental social consequences in culture and belief are astonsihing in hindsight… …The … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, Eastman Johnson A Ride for Liberty, Eastman Johnson paintings, England The Factory Act, England The Mine Act 1842, Eyre Crowe paintings, Frederic Law Olmsted, Girodet Citizen Belley, Granville Sharp, Oscar Handlin, Richard Ansdell, Slavery history
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the blue flame this time
James Cone’s The Cross and the Lynching Tree is a perplexing book.You wonder if its socialism using religion as a pretext to promote ideology or whether the attack against money is part of a larger value system intrinsic to the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, cornel west, Gustav Landauer, Helen Levitt photography, James Baldwin, James Cone, james h. cone, john dewey, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Malcolm X, Martin Buber, Martin Luther King, Ralph Ellison
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pythagoras to byzantium
It’s difficult to put the notion of Greece and the traditional assumption we have of it as birthplace of Western civilization, into context, particularly cultural, when confronted with images of mass civil unrest. The images do lend themselves to a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, benoit agnes trioson, Dante, Donald Kuspit, Franz Kafka, Homer The Iliad, J.A.D. Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, nicholas poussin, Sam Huntington
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prodigal children aware of time
To trust, to put faith into the emotional life. To unencumber oneself of the layers of reason and logic, the common sense of classicism that had dominated art to that point. Romantic visions, but with a classical foundation. It added … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, benoit agnes trioson, Diego Velazquez, Francisco Goya, Girodet, Jacques-Louis David, las meninas velazquez, Michel Foucault, sylvain bellenger, Theodore Gericault
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neither the real or unreal
Does every artist paint him or herself in a portrait? That is, a representation of the alter-ego. Is Girodet’s Belley portrait a reflection of the artist, following the tradition as almost all the great masters have done before? It’s a … Continue reading
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Tagged Abbe Raynal, angelo poliziano, Anne-Louis Girodet, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, gerolamo savonarola, Giovanni Morelli, Jacques-Louis David, Leonardo Da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rosenblum, sylvain bellenger
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to be equals among equals
Tangled up in the tri-color. Girodet’s portrait of Belley is still a controversial painting whose implications remain pertinent and relevant, embroiled as we are in the same morass that followed the French Revolution. Girodet was the first artist to cross … Continue reading
and the moon struck one
Exposing the infinite madness of the unconscious. Showing that anti-establishment art could be accepted, ultimately, by the powers that be through a direct democratic appeal to the what could be called “the great unwashed” unperturbed and uncorrupted by the veneer … Continue reading
charisma of the radiant but broken
Soul under the spell of the moon. The thrill. The construction of empty form. Kitsch before there was kitsch. It meant using high art to express low life, the underworld and it was the beginning of sensationalism that the reign … Continue reading
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