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every good work of art is a kind of joke
“No , the French spirit will never live in this German larva, in this beer-filled thing which is at the Salon.” wrote a rival sculptor in the “Revue de Monde Catholique”. Others dubbed Rodin “the Michelangelo of the goiter”. The … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Albert Elsen, Auguste Rodin, Diego Rivera, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Emile Zola, Honore de Balzac, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo Moses, Otto Rank, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud
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Attics of their mind
Painters across the centuries, the millennia, have always conjured out of their imaginations, fantastic towers and cities which do not exist. Sometimes a product of the subconscious, and sometimes a liberal artistic freedom, these artists created a dream architecture of … Continue reading
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Tagged Albrecht Durer, Duc de Berry, Hans Memling, Hartman Schedel, Jean Duc de Berry, Leonardo Da Vinci, Limbourg Brothers, Limbourg Brothers The Book of Hours, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Nuremberg Chronicles, Robert Hunter, The Grateful Dead, Tres Riches Heures
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BRONZE SCULPTURE: ALCHEMIST CONSOLATION PRIZE
The Gates of Hell on which Auguste Rodin worked for two decades,is presently among twenty bronzes outside in the Sculpture Garden of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Designed by Robert Mittelstadt, the concept seeks to evoke the spirit … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Benvenuto Cellini, Bernini, Bronze horse overture, bronze sculpture, Cantor Arts Center, Daumier, Degas, Donatello, Donatello Sculpture, Duke of Wellington, Edgar Degas, Gericault, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Leonardo Da Vinci, maillol, Marino Marini, Matthew Cotes Wyatt, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pablo Picasso, Renoir, Robert Mittelstadt, Sir John Madejski, Violet Shinbach
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A PIED PIETER OF THE LESS DROLL
In Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s picturizations of proverbs and parables, the Netherlandish peasant is employed only as a pantominist, but in the paintings of peasant life he comes into his own as Bruegel’s symbol of significant man. People who are … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles and Ray Eames, Italian Renaissance, Leonardo Da Vinci, Mannerism, Mannerist Art, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Renaissance Art, The Bible
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HEAVEN AS A TENSE & DISQUIETING PLACE
The central incident in El Greco’s painting, ”The Burial of Count Orgaz” is a vulgar and morally pointless miracle. The painting was done to remind a reluctant parish of its feudal duty. Most of the proceedings preceding and surrounding the … Continue reading
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Tagged Count Orgaz, Domenikos Theotokopoulos, El Greco, High renaissance, Mannerist Art, Mannerist painting, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Neo-Platonism, Neo-Platonists, The Burial of Count Orgaz
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STRANGE MANNERISMS
The arts had come under grave suspicion as offenders against dignity, restraint and decorum. The tide was running toward a new puritanism in the Roman Catholic Church when the council of the church fathers, originally summoned to set the Church’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Angelo Bronzini, El Greco, Emperor Rudolf II, Giuseppe Archimboldo, Johannes Kepler, Mannerism painting, Mannerist Art, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Montaigne, Orsini Gardens Bornazo, Tintoretto
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