Tag Archives: Honore Daumier

vice is the spice of life

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Dave

Prim and proper? Hardly. But, it was jolly old England. Refreshingly, they were not politically correct. The PC Nazi/Yuppie was in an idyllic, and mythological future.  It really began with William Hogarth. Hogarth was the first of these new artists … Continue reading →

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the good angels gulp and groan

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Dave

In general, the notion that Heinrich Heine represented a “wound” became common currency in Germany after 1945, reflecting the German wound of the war and the country’s subsequent division; all interpretations have transformed themselves into a cultural problem and a … Continue reading →

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heine sight is everything

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Dave

The personification of a straight line. Those who philosophize everything delicious out of life. Does the ancient land of dreams still exist? Heine did not believe that it would so soon come to pass; there were too many black ravens … Continue reading →

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shades of 1848: gulps of reality in a pure state

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Dave

For many, what is transpiring in the Arab world, bears resemblance to another year of revolution: 1848. When the inevitable reaction to these toppling of regimes takes place, will it recall the sad end of 1848 when the springtime hopes … Continue reading →

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Sand and Chopin….. etudes of the muse or the ballade of the…vampire

Posted on February 26, 2011 by Dave

George Sand is often cast as the villain of the piece, though actually, she did wonders for Frederic Chopin by shielding him from the buffetings of the world. Chopin’s connection with Madame Dudevant, the French novelist, better known as “George … Continue reading →

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liberated from foursquare classical rhythms

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Dave

His life was brilliant and brief, much like his masterpieces on the piano. This segment tracks Frederic Chopin in Paris. He had left Poland to spend eight inhospitable months in Vienna before making his way to Paris at he time … Continue reading →

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ready, aim, fire: hold the curser till’ you see the white of their eyes

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Dave

What Hollywood accomplishes best is to repackage. Like transformed food it strips the nutritional qualities into sugar coated and sodium charged calories that create addiction and dependency. The craft, for though there is no art, is a distilling, filtering and … Continue reading →

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Not in my salon

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Dave

Few styles fell so far into disrepute as the once-prized academic art of the nineteenth-century.Bad as most of it really was, some of it did not deserve the exile it had received. This banishment of French Salon paintings took a … Continue reading →

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feast and famine of pure reason

Posted on January 23, 2011 by Dave

At age twenty-two in 1937, the Museum of Modern Art purchased “Feast of Pure Reason” , and Jack Levine became known as the school of Boston Expressionism. It seems hardly justified that his work would fall almost totally out of … Continue reading →

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FRENCH KISS IN THE DERRIERE: SKINNING THE RATS

Posted on July 18, 2010 by Dave

He whose image we offer you, And whose art, subtle above all others’, Teaches us to laugh at ourselves, That man, reader, is a sage. –Charles Baudelaire, Verses in Honor of the Portrait of Monsieur Honoré Daumier The technique of … Continue reading →

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