Tag Archives: Claude Monet

repercussions: the esoterics of bronze

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Dave

The art world divided into warring and acrimonious factions over Auguste Rodin’s “Balzac” was first exhibited as a full size plaster version of the statue shown to the public at he Salon of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1898.Because … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Aleister Crowley, Auguste Rodin, Claude Debussey, Claude Monet, Edward Steichen, Emile Zola, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Honore de Balzac, Leo Steinberg, Rainer Maria Rilke | Leave a comment

SEURAT: Quest For The Redemption Of MATTER

Posted on December 2, 2010 by Dave

Studies of Georges Seurat have usually focused on the subject matter; but there can be little doubt that the painter himself nailed his flag firmly to the mast of technical innovation. Technique was, as he wrote to his friend, the … Continue reading →

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CHOKING ON CAKE: BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Dave

“Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.” ( Keynes, 1935) And thus it began with adherence to Keynes’s central theme: the modern capitalist economy does not … Continue reading →

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TROPICS OF THE MIND: Forgotten Memories of an Ancestral Darkness

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Dave

His is the simple and yet incredible story of an unworldly petit bourgeois who painted in an introverted, almost autistic manner. He himself cannot have been fully aware of what he was doing; he did not distinguish between his pictures … Continue reading →

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COUNTRY LIFE: IS PARIS BLUSHING?

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Dave

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 →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | 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 | Leave a comment

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY:DON’T SIT ON THE GRASS

Posted on October 8, 2010 by Dave

“A commonplace woman of the demimonde, as naked as can be, shamelessly lolls between two dandies dressed to the teeth. These latter look like schoolboys on a holiday, perpetrating an outrage to play the man…this is a young man’s practical … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Anne Hanson, Camille Pissarro, Claude Monet, Courbet, Edouard Manet, Francisco Goya, Giorgione Artist, Goya, Gustave Courbet, James McNeill Whistler, James Whistler, Jim Lane, Juliet Wilson-Bareau, Salon des Réfuses, Salon des Réfuses 1863, Thomas Couture, Timothy Sexton, Titian, Wilson-Bareau | 2 Comments

SALON DES LEFTOVERS: WHO’S FOR LUNCH?

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Dave

He strove only for official recognition; he never thought of himself as making a protest, overthrowing the art of the past, or creating a new order. Yet that is exactly what he did: Edouard Manet, the reluctant revolutionary. Edouard Manet, … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alexandre Cabanel, Alfred Sisley, Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Corot, Edgar Degas, Edmond Maitre, Edouard Manet, Emile Zola, Frédéric Bazille, Gustave Caillebotte, Joel Isaacson, John Wolfe, Marie Mockett, Melissa Yue, Meyer Schapiro, Otto Scholderer, Pisarro, Pissaro, Salon des Réfuses, Zacharie Astruc | Leave a comment

DESOLATION IN THE SHADOWS OF REALITY

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Dave

His range may have been a narrow one, but within its limits he was one of the most sincere painters this country has seen. He was the first who attempted with success to place nature upon canvas with pigments that … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Andrew Graham Dixon, C.J. Holmes, Claude Monet, Constable, Edouard Manet, Goethe, John Constable, John Dunthorne, John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner, London Royal Academy of Arts, Luke Howard, Paul Cezanne, Percy Shelley, Royal Academy, Sir George Beaumont, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Van Gogh | Leave a comment

ACROSS AN EPIC NOT INTIMATE UNIVERSE

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Dave

”But Turner—especially in his own last years—was not at all hostile to the incoming empire of technology. Quite the opposite: he believed that the speeding train or the chugging paddle steamer could be turned into a visual lyric that married … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Alan Woods, Burke, Carl Jung, Charles Holme, Claude Monet, Goethe, Goethe color theory, Impressionist Art, Jackson Pollock, John Constable, John Elderfield, John Ruskin, Joseph Farington, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Schama, Sigmund Freud, Simon Schama, Stanley Cavell, Thackeray, William Hazlitt, William Parrott | Leave a comment

AWAKENED INTO A MYSTIC DARKNESS:THE FALLACY OF HOPE

Posted on June 17, 2010 by Dave

We were born before the wind Also younger than the sun Ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic Hark, now hear the sailors cry Smell the sea and feel the sky Let your soul and … Continue reading →