Tag Archives: Jacques-Louis David

audubon: illusions of spontaneity

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Dave

Returning to the original paintings of John James Audubon and not the proliferation of cheap prints, brings us directly back to his highly personal method and approach- and to the most intimate aspects of his artistic labors. On several occasions … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Audubon Society, Audubon The Birds of America, Jacques-Louis David, John James Audubon, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Robert Havell Jr. | Leave a comment

dead to the world: first photographic lie

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Dave

The man who took the photograph below, the man who wrote the original inscription printed below it, and the “corpse” itself were one and the same: Hippolyte Bayard, as the yet unrecognized inventor of photography in France. At the time … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged David Death of Marat, Elad H. Friedmann, Hippolyte Bayard, Jacques-Louis David, louis daguerre, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, William Henry Fox Talbot | Leave a comment

teamwork in the heart of the country: fun with guns

Posted on November 5, 2012 by Dave

Everything is a “price tag” policy. It keeps the Macbeth pot boiling letting the passionate vapors intoxicate the kooky from vandalizing cars in annexed East Jerusalem, rustling goats and sheep in the West Bank, war crimes in Syria, Francois Hollande … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Barack Obama 2012, Charles Le Brun, Charles Le Brun paintings, francois hollande, Free Syrian Army, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Dubuffet, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mahmoud abbas, Max Horkheimer, Mitt Romney 2012, Mohammad Rafei Syrian actor, Paul McCartney, shimon peres, Simon Vouet, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

slave: barbarians and barter for the buck

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Dave

Slavery. A peculiar institution of the Old World. The Greeks and Romans practiced slavery and condoned it; that is, condoned it for war, condoned it for luxury and condoned it for business. But even then, they knew it to be … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ancient Roman slave trade, ancient slave revolts, Capua gladiator school, Cicero, Edward Gibbon, Flavius Josephus, Florentinus Roman Jurist, Horace Roman poet, Jacques-Louis David, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Marcus Aurelius column Rome, Roman Retiarus gladiator, Slavery Greek history, Slavery in the Roman Empire, Sparatacus slave revolt, Spartacus | Leave a comment

hazards of the classics

Posted on May 31, 2012 by Dave

Even though holocausts, hatreds, and forgetfulness have obliterated vast treasures of past cultures, occasional good luck, later circumspection, and modern recovery have helped rescue a priceless part of our written legacy from oblivion. An eloquent instance of the chances and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Apeleius Golden Ass, Armadillo Systems, Bishop Eadfrith, British Library, Cupid and Psyche, Didymus Alexandrinus, Didymus Alexandrinus De Spiritu Sancto, Dr Michelle Brown, Jacques-Louis David, Jean de la Fontaine, Jean-Baptiste Lully, King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, Kish Tablet, Lindisfarne Gospels, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moliere Psyche, Pierpont Morgan Library | Leave a comment

school’s out: very blue notes

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Dave

Its always been acknowledged that there are intrinsic qualities to the study of music. But to go to school and make a career of it has always been a questionable decision. The precarity of employment juxtaposed with the liberty of … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged ash sloan, Donald Kuspit, Jacques-Louis David, Joseph Schumpeter, lol creme, madame pickwick art blog, Maimonides, steven lipson, The Producers Music Group, trevor horn | Leave a comment

say it ain’t so joe

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Dave

Art as propaganda. The Romantic age had begun with the French revolution. Republican myth and Joseph Bara where the poltical mixes freely with the spiritual and the metaphors and allegories ricochet with the frequency of grape shot in the heat … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged charles moreau-vauthier, Gunter grass, Jacques-Louis David, Jean Jacques Rousseau, jean-joseph weerts, joseph bara, wild boy of aveyron | Leave a comment

art collector by hook and crook

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Dave

Whatever you can say about Napoleon, the reputation and glory of the Louvre was substantially enhanced by his theft of art from conquered lands, booty ransacked and pillaged at gunpoint. As Bonaparte advanced through Italy, the museum’s collection of both … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged battle of waterloo, gioacchino serangeli, Jacques-Louis David, Louvre Museum History, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I, Napoleon Italian Campaign, napoleon theme park, napoleon victory at marengo, nicolas sarkozy, percier and fontaine architects, Sarkozy, serangeli, yves jego napoleon theme park | Leave a comment

pythagoras to byzantium

Posted on March 3, 2012 by Dave

It’s difficult to put the notion of Greece and the traditional assumption we have of it as birthplace of Western civilization, into context, particularly cultural, when confronted with images of mass civil unrest. The images do lend themselves to a … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Anne-Louis Girodet, benoit agnes trioson, Dante, Donald Kuspit, Franz Kafka, Homer The Iliad, J.A.D. Ingres, Jacques-Louis David, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, nicholas poussin, Sam Huntington | Leave a comment

prodigal children aware of time

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Dave

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 →