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a gendered gaze
Exactly how many pieces of art are in the Louvre is not clear. At the most extreme is the assertion that there are 300,000 paintings and a minimum of 5,000 and the total pieces of art ranging from 35,000 to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertrand Russell, camille morineau, Damien Hirst, Francois Boucher, Georges Seurat, Honoré Fragonard, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Paul Sartre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Maurice Quentin de La Tour
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napoleon: romantic muse and not amused
It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. So said Dickens. But it was. As Napoleon began his rather blood-soaked, chaotic and passionate rule of France he met the force of two women , “femmes fatales” … Continue reading
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Tagged 18th Brumaire, alex godfrey, Alison Castle, Antoine-Jean Gros, Eugene Isabey, eulalie morin, felix markham, franz kruger, George Sand, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, mme de Stael, Mme Germaine de Stael, Napoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, prince augustus william of prussia, Stanley Kubrick, stanley kubrick napoleon, tony frewin
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the caravan continues its route
There has always been an attraction of the Middle East for the Western World. Its an odd relationship with an aesthetic all its own.But it is based on an intentional and violent distortion of Arab society that is pervasive throughout … Continue reading
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Tagged Edward Said, Edwin Long, George P. Landow, Gustave Boulanger, herge, Ingres, Jean Leon Gerome, Noam Chomsky, rudolph valentino, tin tin, wilfred thesiger, william muller
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vincent in arles: goodbye yellow brick house
… then in February 1888, during a snowstorm, came a Dutchman who saw Arles as the city had been waiting to be seen- a miracle of color beneath the golden sun. Vincent van Gogh adored “the sun pouring down bright … Continue reading
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Tagged Daumier, Emile Bernard, Eugene Delacroix, Gauguin, Ingres, Jean-Francois Millet, Martin Gayford, Paul Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Robert Freedman, Theo van Gogh, Van Gogh, van Gogh in Arles, Vincent Van Gogh
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PICASSO, Visual Violence and the Unbinding of Desire: JUST BECAUSE
After the first World War, Andre Breton came to Picasso’s studio….. saw Les Demoiselles d’Avignon and recognised it as the definitive modern masterpiece. Breton, the leader of the surrealists, saw in it a painting about the revolutionary menace of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Donald Kuspit, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, El Greco, Felix Feneon, Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, Ingres, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Leo Stein, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Michael Kirby, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Verlaine, Sigmund Freud, Stephane Mallarme, Titian, Tony Grillo
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POMPEII: Dangerously Low Necklines
When the ruins of Pompeii came to light, they caused a revolution in taste-stripping away rococo gilt, reshaping the female figure, and leaving a deposit of pseudo-Greek temples from Moscow to Mississippi- although what sometimes passed for “classical” would have … Continue reading
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Tagged A.O. Lovejoy, Beau Brummell, Boily, Emma Hamilton, Fragonard, Francois Boucher, George Boas, George Romney, Giambattista Piranesi, Giorgio Sommer, Ingres, J.A.D. Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Antoine Watteau, Jean Francois Chalgrin Architect, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Keats, Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn, Max Beerbohm, Peter Paul Rubens, Richard Cosway, Robert Adam Architect, Roger Sandall, Sir Kenneth Clark
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CHANCE MEETING: COLLAGE OF THE INVERTED OEDIPUS
Chance. A roll of the dice within that casino located in that vast structure of the human mind. The roulette wheel stops, the cards are flipped, the chips rise and fall.Chance is what arises from that volatile unpredictable mix of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Breton, Balmer, Dada Movement, Dadaists, David Hopkins, Donald Kuspit, Dostoevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Quinn, Elizabeth Legge, Giorgio de Chirico, Ingres, Jean Paulhan, John Milton Paradise Lost, Jose Maria Faerne, Jules Verne, Man Ray, Max Ernst, Otto Dix, Paul Auster, Paul Eluard, Salvador dali, Sigmund Freud, Stuart Nolan, Surrealism, Werner Spies
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