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easel does it: I’ll paint with my donkey
Old easels never die, they just drag themselves into the woods on their last legs to become recycled, resurrected again to serve the aims of art. When painting came off the wall and onto the floor, the deed was done … Continue reading
between the tiny folds: bernie and the beast
The challenge for luxury brand advertisers is to demonstrate they are connected to reality and in tune, a degree of empathy to global welfare. Something other than the transparently self-serving elitists parlaying superficiality into grotesque profits. … This was a … Continue reading
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Sundown on the golden age
When Jan de Witt became defacto head of the Dutch republic it ushered in an era of prosperity and liberalism, for the time, that was unheard of. Dutch commerce, trade, and especially the arts developed an identity that has been … Continue reading
Golden Guilders: going dutch with jan de witt
Under Jan de Witt, the Dutch bested the great powers at both arms and commerce, arts and science. However, in a moment of panic they killed him and the Dutch Golden Age turned to lead. So much of what we … Continue reading
Not in my salon
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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Tagged Bouguereau, Duveau, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Eugene Delacroix, French Salon painting, Gustave Courbet, Honore Daumier, Jan Vermeer, Jean Leon Gerome, Jean-Francois Millet, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Millet, Pierre Auguste Cot, Theophile Gautier, Thomas Couture, William-Adolphe Bouguereau
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AN OBSESSION WITH UNREASON: Absolute and Faithless Doubt
Caravaggio has become the ultimate old master superstar; his only real rival is Vermeer. It was a great if sadly short career. Caravaggio’s work was an expression of awareness of the precariousness of a reason that can at any moment be compromised, … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Malraux, Andrew Graham Dixon, Annibale Carracci, Araminta Wordsworth, Bernard Berenson, Caravaggio, David Eskerdjian, E.H. Gombrich, Ernst Gombrich, Francine Prose, Francis Schaeffer, Friedrich Nietzsche, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Giordano Bruno, Helen Langdon, Jan Vermeer, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ruskin, Martin Luther, Martin Scorsese, Maurizio Calvesi, Michael Fried, Michel Foucault, Nicolas Poussin, Philip Sohm, Roberto Longhi, Simon Schama, Thomas Aquinas, Vermeer
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ORANGE LIGHT DISTRICT
On a narrow, low lying strip of coastal country in Northern Europe, scarcely two hundred miles long, a country so water logged that enemies and rivals spoke of it as mud flat, there arose in the seventeenth century one of … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam van Breen, Cornelisz Verspronck, Diego Velazquez, Dutch Golden Age, Dutch painting, Frans Hals, Hugo Grotius, Jacob Cats, Jan Steen, Jan Vermeer, Joost van den Vondel, Paulus van Hillegaart, Pieter van den Keere, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Vermeer, Vondel
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