Tag Archives: Paul Signac

terrorism: no innocent victims

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Dave

…At his trial Emile Henry explained with some pride how he had constructed his bomb according to approved scientific principles and had methodically rehearsed his crime. he was less articulate about why he had picked that particular target. The Cafe … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Andre Gide, Emile Henry anarchist, Emile Marenssin, Felix Feneon, Francois Ravachol, French Anarchism history, George Woodcock, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mikhail Bakunin, Paul Signac, Serge Nechaiev | Leave a comment

like father like fun

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Dave

…the almost unknown collection of the grand old man of impressionism was left to an equally unknown museum. At the death of Michel Monet, in 1966, the only son of Claude Monet, the officials knew they were going to get … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Malraux, Claude Monet, Claude Monet Giverny, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Monet, Paul Signac, Pierre Auguste Renoir | Leave a comment

legacy: last manners

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Dave

Michel Monet’s rich legacy of art had been casually, not to say carelessly, stacked about his house since 1926. His own tastes ran to hunting trophies and garish African souvenirs. The inheritors had to scramble from attic to cellar, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Berthe Morisot, Boudin French painter, Camille Monet, Claude Monet, Claude Monet Giverny, Jongkind French painter, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Michel Monet, Paul Signac | Leave a comment

fire fire! your moneys on fire

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Dave

Should good art always make those in positions of power and privilege feel uncomfortable, squirmy, ill at ease and irritated by pangs of consciousness even if irregular. Or is an art that is ostensibly anti banking and money serve to … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged alex schaefer artist, aubrey hodes, doug aitken, ed ruscha, Emile Durkheim, Felix Feneon, Gustav Metzger, Jonathan Jones Guardian, Luc Sante, Marcel Mauss, Martin Buber, michael landy breakdown, Nelson Mandela, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Signac, rivonia trial south africa, sam dwyer, steve reich wtc 9/11, stuart home, Tyler Green, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

MATISSE: Cut,Paste & Taste

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Dave

That Matisse would abandon oil painting and adopt a new technique so late in his career was a surprise to many people, although it need not have been. Paper cutouts were, of course, convenient for a semi-invalid, but Matisse had … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Derain, Brian O'Doherty, Fauvism, Gertrude Stein, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Henri-Edmond Cross, Hilary Spurling, Hilton Kramer, jack Flam, Jennifer Sachs Samet, John Elderfield, Laura McPhee, Matisse Paper cut-out, Maurice de Vlaminck, Michelle Leight, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Raoul Dufy, Riva Castleman, Van Gogh | Leave a comment

NO PHOTOGRAPHS for OLD MEN

Posted on December 24, 2010 by Dave

It was the debut of the picture interview. On the eve of his one hundredth and first birthday in 1886, Marie-Eugene Chevreuil, scientist and director of the Gobelin tapestry works, called at the Paris studio of the photographer G.F. Tournachon. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Avogadro, Cannizzaro, Charles Darwin, G.F Tournachon, G.F. Tournachon Nadar, Georges Seurat, Gobelin Tapestry, Marie-Eugene Chevreul, Mendeleeff, Nadar photography, Paul Signac, Peter Pollack, Willaim A. Smeaton | Leave a comment

EXUBERANT BUT NOT ABERRANT: No Orgies Of COLOR

Posted on December 16, 2010 by Dave

Henri Matisse was termed a “wild beast”, a fauve. Traditional art was soon to become an irrelevancy, an anachronism, as experimental art began to develop its own audience, its own markets, and its own rationales apart from being merely anti-traditionalist. It seemed … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Ambroise Vollard, Andre Derain, Auguste Renoir, Fauvism, Georges Seurat, Gerald Boerner, H. Harvard Arnason, Henri Matisse, John Canaday, Julian Barnes, Louis Vauxcelles, Maurice de Vlaminck, Pablo Picasso, Paul Signac, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Van Dogen | Leave a comment

MATISSE & THE VIOLENCE OF COLOR: Painting Safari

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Dave

The first “event” in twentieth century art took place in Paris, regarded as the cultural capital of Western civilization, in 1905. This exhibition showed the influence of nineteenth century developments of colour and distorted line from artists such as Van Gogh and Gauguin. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andre Derain, Daniel de Monfried, Edvard Munch, Elie Faure, Emil Nolde, Ernst Ludwig Kirschner, Fauvism, Fred S. Kleiner, Gavin Parkinson, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, John Canaday, Julian Barnes, Louis Vauxcelles, Maurice de Vlaminck, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

MATISSE:An Inner Loneliness of Precious Time

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Dave

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known….No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.( Oscar Wilde ) The birth of a wild … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alain Derain, Ambroise Vollard, Andre Derain, Cezanne, Fauvism, Gavin Parkinson, Georges Braque, Gustave Moreau, Henri Matisse, Hilary Spurling, Matisse, Maurice de Vlaminck, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac | Leave a comment

ARCADIAN FANTASY: Mediterranean State of Mind

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Dave

One summer early in the twentieth century,Henri Matisse took his family to the seashore. There, in the light of the Mediterranean, a new way of painting came forth. …. Picasso was the one who suggested that Henri Matisse and his … Continue reading →