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Tag Archives: E.H. Gombrich
duchess of alba: seven year fling
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
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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
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Phantasmagoria: be here now
Very few paintings in the history of art have so puzzled viewers as Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights. Even in the basking glory of post modernist permissiveness, its meaning is neither clear nor compelling, only murky. In centuries … Continue reading
disruptive mobility: mop up the unemployed imagination
Art that contradicts by showing its contradictions, its unresolvable tensions, will usually end up being debunked and marginalized as a distortion to a broader picture.A random anomaly to be forgotten. There is a tendency to want to keep our morals, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bersani, Cindy Sherman, Colin Maccabe, Conrad Felixmuller, Craig Owens, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Edward Bernays, Felix Nussbaum, Francisco Goya, George Grosz, Gottfried Helnwein, Goya, Guy Debord, Leo Bersani, Mark Vallen, Max Beckmann, Sigmund Freud, T.S. Eliot, Ulysse Dutoit
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Los caprichos: a wasteland of reason
But if Francisco Goya saw vice, corruption and foolishness in high places, Goya, unlike many of his contemporaries in France and England , did not discover a compensatory nobility in the common man. In fact, the contrary. His first great … Continue reading
viscious frailties at the most extreme
At the Spanish court, Goya was advantageously placed to observe vicious frailties at their most extreme. At the time that he became Painter of the Household, Charles IV had just succeeded to the throne in place of an elder brother … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Ann Coulter, Diego Velasquez, Donald Kuspit, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Goya, Goya, Goya Los Caprichos, Goya Naked Maja, Jerry Vines, Kenneth Clark, Mel Brooks, Otto Dix, Robert Hughes, The Duchess of Alba, Voltaire
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an enemy of irrational tendencies
Goya’s life was split in two near its midpoint by an illness that very nearly killed him when he was forty-six years old. If he had died, he would have left a large body of work establishing him as one … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Francisco Bayeu, Francisco Goya, Kendall L. Walton, Kenneth Clark, Milos Forman, Muriel Julius, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, The Duchess of Alba
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revolutionary for reason: consciousness of a tragic humanity
Horror. The world one usually associates with the work of Goya. Even in his brilliant early years as a court painter, an air of evil hung suspiciously in the background of his rococo paintings. Then, after his illness, they lept … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Woods, Andrew Martin Goya, Dante Alighieri, David Sylvester, Diego Velasquez, E.H. Gombrich, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Goya, goya Black paintings, Goya's Ghosts, Kenneth Clark, Michel Serres, Natalie Portman, Robert Hughes, Theophile Gautier
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mona lisa: still crazy for the old flame
Its persistence to in capturing the public’s imagination is in itself one of the painting’s imagined mysteries. Perhaps mysteries that have been more created and fermented by the legions of art critics and scholars than was actually imagined and figured … Continue reading
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Tagged Carla Gloria, Dan Brown, E.H. Gombrich, Elfriede Jelinek, Ernst Gombrich, Hieronymous Bosch, James Adams, Jonathan Jones, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leonardo Da Vinci, Marcel Duchamp, Mario Livio, Marquis de Sade, Ross Killpatrick, Scott Lund, Silvano Vinceti, The Golden Ratio
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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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