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poussin: transposing the poets’s world
Just as it abstracts the figures in the foreground, Nicolas Poussin’s geometry opens up nature in the background. The narrow dramatic stage now gives way to a landscape so vast that, it appears it would take more than a day … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew butterfield, Claude Lorrain, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Goethe, John Haber Art, Keith Christiansen, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, olivier bonfait, Pierre Rosenberg, Richard Wollheim, William Hazlitt
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poussin: showing your peasant
As Mondrian himself and many others have proved, mathematical perfection has a finality which is often fatal to art. That was a danger that threatened Nicolas Poussin. What saved him was the reappearance, around 1650, of a side of his … Continue reading
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Tagged andrea del sarto, ann sutherland harris, Claude Lorrain, Corot, ed ruscha, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Gentile Bellini, Georges Seurat, Keith Christiansen, Nicolas Poussin, olivier bonfait, paul bril, Paul Cezanne, Pierre Rosenberg, Piet Mondrian, silvia ginzburg, Sir Kenneth Clark, thomas cole the course of empire, Titian
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poussin the golden: divine means of abstract geometrical truth
He tried to live in France from 1640-42, called back by King Louis XIII and the urging of Cardinal Richelieu who felt it imperative that France had greater artistic luster.Claude Lorrain was also compelled to return. Poussin had been appointed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernini, Cardinal Richelieu, Claude Levi-Strauss, Claude Lorrain, Clement Greenberg, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Keith Christiansen, king louis XIII, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Rosenberg, Richard Wollheim, Sir Kenneth Clark
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zep tepi, poussin and geometrical coincidence
Is Google the ultimate Time Travel? If you read the following do so at your own risk….good grief …Zep Tepi is the ancient method of Zero Point Alchemy, activating the vacuum dynamics within the Vortex of Creation (Black Hole of … Continue reading
peasant and poet : mind over matter
Monsu Pussino and the gradual retreat of instinct. The ideal is clear. Painting, as one of Nicolas Poussin’s admirer’s put it, must “talk”. A canvas should not only be visible to the eye but legible to the mind. Listing the … Continue reading
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Tagged Caravaggio, Cervantes, Donald Kuspit, Ernst Gombrich, felibien, Jacopo Sannazaro, james frazer the golden bough, John Milton Paradise Lost, Keith Christiansen, Marino Marini, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, pietro de cortona, raphael's form, Richard Wolheim, Titian, Virgil Aenid
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conflicting tendencies: the poet and peasant
Nicolas Poussin’s work is full of conflicting tendencies. More exactly, with tendencies that ought to be conflicting and that would be anywhere but in Poussin’s painting. This many sidedness, these very contradictions, determine and explain his classicism. For classicism as … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Blunt, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, denis mahon, Ernst Gombrich, ferdinand elle, georges lallemand, Goethe, John Constable, John Milton, Keith Christiansen, Marie de Medicis, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, William Hazlitt
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SOLILOQUY of the DREAMING ARTIST: Two Natures in One Person
During the Renaissance a new notion of the individual was created. This identity was formed through knowledge based on the relationship of the individual to the world in which they lived. At the time, new forms of knowledge were being … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Mclean, Andrea Mantegna, Bernard Berenson, Carola Naumer, Carr W. Dawson, Charles Hope, Correggio, Dan Starling, David Byron, David Landau, Dawson W. Carr, E.H. Gombrich, Erica Tietze-Conrat, Ernst Gombrich, Georges Coppel, Giorgio Vasari, Giuseppe Fiocco, Iris Origo, Isabella d'Este Ferrara, Jack M. Greenstein, Jane Martineau, Jason Burke, Jonathan Sawday, Keith Christiansen, Leo Steinberg, Leon Battista Alberti, Mantegna, Maud Cruttwell, Michael Kimmelman, Paul Kristeller, Philip Coppens, R.W. Lightbown, Rembrandt, Robert Smith, Sam Taylor-Wood, Simon Abrahams, Sir Kenneth Clark, Squarcione, Stephen Greenblatt, Suzanne Boorsch, Vasari, Venerable Bede
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