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Tag Archives: Pierre Auguste Renoir
sunny afternoon
The pleasures of a day by the Seine were never more smilingly evoked than they are in Auguste Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating party (1881). As any visitor to France knows, the river often flows beneath leaden skies or through … Continue reading
like father like fun
…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
dreyfus: justice better late than forever
Why we cannot forget Dreyfus. It was a long time ago and the stage was France, but the chief actors in the drama, as part of an ushering in of the age of modernism, have remained on the political scene … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Edgar Degas, Emile Zola, Frederick Brown Dreyfus, Gen. Jean Sandherr, Leslie Derfler, Louis Begley Dreyfus, Lt. Col. Marie Georges Picquart, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Major Marie Charles Esterhazy, Maurice Weil, Peter Lefcourt Dreyfus, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Pierre Marie Waldeck-Rousseau, Piers Paul Read Dreyfus, Ruth harris Dreyfus, The Dreyfus Affair, Vincent Duclert
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element of surprise
Indeed, for a historian who can establish himself in the past and not the future, the world’s development is full of surprises: in religion, in politics, in social attitudes, there are sudden, almost electrifying, shifts nad changes that would, were … Continue reading
the blobs
Characterizing the idea of “otherness” is the ultimate divide and conquer, and in the case of the Arabs a metaphor for the word “backwards” homogenously spread over a large swathe of the globe and a sub-category for Islam in general. … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged craig thompson habibi, Dr. jack Shaheen, Edward Said, Harrison Ford Raiders of the Lost Ark, Israel Shahak, Jean Leon Gerome, Madame Pickwick, Maimonides, MEK People's Holy Jihadis, michelle bachmann, Muslim Brotherhood, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Steven Spielberg, Thorstein Veblen
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within these walls what secrets…
The Grand Seraglio. Within its walls the Turkist Sultans sought an answer to a an old question: Can absolute power bring absolute bliss? Within the confines of what is today the Topakapi Museum, the Sultan’s residence the answer between the … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Gentile Bellini, Grand Seraglio, Janissary Corps, john frederick lewis, Lady Mary Whortley, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mahmud II, Michel Baudier, Murad IV, Ottaviano Bon, Pierre Auguste Renoir
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picasso comet
The effect of the rise of esteem in the earlier periods of Picasso automatically put a grip on the reception of the later ones as they came off the easel. Since the end of WWII every freshly painted Picasso was … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged amedeo modigliani, Clement Greenberg, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Francisco Goya, Ilya Repin, Jackson Pollock, Jonathan Richman, jonathan richman pablo picasso, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Man Ray, Norman Rockwell, Pablo Picasso, Picasso Analyst Cubist period, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Valentine Dedensing, William Blake
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