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Tag Archives: Girodet
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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
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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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
A PIOUS SINNER AS NATIONAL INSTITUTION
In the early 1960′s, Chateaubriand received a tribute that demonstrates in its very extravagance, his enduring power. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre visited Saint-Malo on one of their many excursions. They liked the town, but Chateaubriand’s tomb, with … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Andrea Link, Charles Mackay, Chateaubriand, Claudia Moscovici, Counter-Enlightenment, Dostoevsky, Duc d'Enghien, French Literature, Girodet, Heinrich Heine, Jean Paul Sartre, Napoleon Bonaparte, Romantic literature, Romantic Movement, Romanticism, Simone de Beauvoir
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