tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29291439806390471682024-03-13T12:56:09.232-04:00Daily ArtistEEHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642044214760840611noreply@blogger.comBlogger193125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929143980639047168.post-61203209166532188902013-05-04T10:26:00.004-04:002013-05-04T10:26:53.785-04:00Wassily Kandinsky (December 16, 1866 – December 13, 1944) II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;">"Painting is an art, and art is not vague production, transitory</span><br style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;">and isolated, but a power which must be directed to the</span><br style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;" /><span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">improvement and refinement of the human soul–to, in fact, the</span></span><br style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;">raising of the spiritual triangle.</span><br style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;" /><br style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;">If art refrains from doing this work, a chasm remains unbridged,</span><br style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;">for no other power can take the place of art in this activity.</span><br style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;">And at times when the human soul is gaining greater strength, art</span><br style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;">will also grow in power, for the two are inextricably connected</span><br style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;">and complementary one to the other. Conversely, at those times</span><br style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;">when the soul tends to be choked by material disbelief, art</span><br style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;">becomes purposeless and talk is heard that art exists for art's</span><br style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;" /><span style="font-family: Arial; text-align: start;">sake alone."</span></i></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>– Wassily Kandinsky</i></span></span></div>
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Vedder was a talented and interesting Symbolist painter with strong <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Pre-Raphaelitism" target="_blank">Pre-Raphaelite</a> influences, yet he was also, I think, a bit generic. Still, there is a sort of excellence in his genercism, as he often seems to approach novelty, in theme or style, though never quite reaching it. I would write more about Vedder, but, frankly, his life, as far as I know it, was not filled with many noteworthy moments, outside of mentioning that he was also a poet (honestly, not a very good one). But, while Vedder may have had an uneventful life and produced somewhat generic art, there is a quality that transcends the plain in his works, and makes him an artist of worth–and perhaps it is that which I find so interesting about him. </div>
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<a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Claude%20Monet" target="_blank">Monet</a> said of Jongkind, "I owe the final education of my eye to him." No faint praise. Jongkind was an amazing artist, who expressed a constant softness in his art, which travelled from Romanticism into Impressionism, and enamored many Impressionists in the earliest days of that style to him for that softness. But there is also a considerable amount of tragedy in his works I can't quite put my finger on it, and if you know better how to explain it, please leave your version in the comments, but there is a constant melancholy, in the calm darkness and sunlight. This is not too surprising, though, as in his life, Jongkind was very unhappy and only briefly successful. </div>
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Perhaps the tragic quality is a calm too calm.</div>
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Pelez is a very interesting, though not particularly well-known artist, who remains unknown, I think, not because he was unoriginal or demonstrated poor execution in his works, but because his novelty was very nebulous. While a French Realist, he shared far more in common, once we look forward, with <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/American%20Realism" target="_blank">American Realists</a>, who were greatly interested in social criticism, than with his contemporaries. At other points, Pelez's art takes on strong aspects of Romanticism, as in <i>Adam and Eve</i>, and even foreshadows <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Photorealism" target="_blank">Photorealism</a>, as in <i>Misery at the Opera</i>. Hard to define, don't you think?</div>
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I've decided to introduce a very popular new style today: Superflat. Superflat was created by Takashi Murakami as a way of modernizing the Japanese art world. In most cases the influences of <span style="font-family: inherit;">the various </span>works are not rooted in classical Japanese art, such as<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Ukiyo-e" target="_blank">Ukiyo-e</a> (works like <i>Daruma</i>, below, being rare exceptions)<span style="line-height: 19.171875px;">, but in Japanese popular animations and comics. In fact, though I haven't included examples, they are often indistinguishable from Japanese pop culture pieces by any standards; if you're inclined, I've linked to one such piece: see <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miss_KO2_Takashi_Murakami_Versailles.jpg" target="_blank">Miss KO</a></span><a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miss_KO2_Takashi_Murakami_Versailles.jpg" target="_blank">²</a>. As a Pop Artist of sorts, he is often compared to <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/2011/03/andy-warhol-august-6-1928-february-22.html" target="_blank">Warhol</a>, but I think the comparison is very loose at best, as Warhol tended to utilize pop icons, whether people or brands, in a clean fashion within an experimental composition, while Murakami tends to manipulate popular Japanese animaton and cartoon motifs and characters in creating bizarre and shocking effects. Murakami, if anything, is closer to <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/2010/12/roy-lichtenstein-october-27-1923.html" target="_blank">Lichtenstein</a>, but even that is a stretch, as Lichtenstein was far subtler in his approach. And I don't know whether I would even say that he is very unique within a wide scope, though he certainly is unique as a founder within the art world. </span></div>
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Firstly, apologies for the delayed post. I'm still dealing with the results of the fire, so often enough I don't have any available time in the day. But I will try to post as consistently as possible. </div>
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Now, as for Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, if you're not into the whole brevity thing), I was completely surprised to find, after I had finished writing my <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/2013/04/are-you-still-waiting.html" target="_blank">first post</a> of this year, headed with a painting of his, that I had never written an article on him. What an oversight! And just now, as I think of setting some examples against Raphael, I realize I haven't written about Michelangelo, who was both an example for and a rival of his. And, frankly, there is little to say of Raphael's art that has not been said and echoed a hundred times. I will try to write a bit, but forgive my repetitiveness. </div>
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Raphael was a very dynamic painter, taking into himself the influences of the art world around him; and, since he travelled often, it made for a wide array of influences. For example, Raphael freely took into his process the technical interpretations of <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Leonardo%20da%20Vinci" target="_blank">da Vinci</a>, his smokey transitions (sfumato), and of Michelangelo, his dramatic color changes (cangiante). But what made Raphael interesting was not the constant evolution in his style, but the constant stroke of excellency at the heart of his work. And I will venture to write that this excellency came from Raphael's peculiar meticulousness, which, unlike da Vinci's perfectionism, did not cause a loss of soul in the appearance of the subjects (I'm sure many will disagree with that comparison). </div>
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Roberto Matta was a painter who constantly married Surrealism with Abstract Expressionism to quite a high level of success. His works are strange and ethereal, often featuring cloudy emanations of colors. And <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Salvador%20Dali" target="_blank">Dalí </a>seems to have had a strong influence on Matta's paintings, especially in their compositional schemes, which I think is interesting as a reference within the works, but also somewhat damaging, as Dalí is often faulted for the composition of his elements.</div>
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It's also interesting to note Roberto's relationship with <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Arshile%20Gorky" target="_blank">Arshile Gorky</a>, one of the painters of the twentieth century with the most tragic life. Matta had had an affair with Gorky's wife, who afterwards left Gorky. As Gorky put it, "I made a terrible mistake getting in with these Surrealist people. They're terrible people. The husbands sleep with each other's wives and they're terrible people." Gorky soon after hanged himself, which is something a large part of the Abstract Expressionist movement of the time blamed Matta for. </div>
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I decided to do a second post on Otto Dix because of a recent comment on the first. (You can find the first post <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/2011/01/otto-dix-december-2-1891-july-25-1969.html" target="_blank">here</a>.) To begin with, out of all of my posts, the one on Otto Dix has so far been the most popular. Yet the only comment I have received on it is that the work of Dix is not art because it looks demented. While I suppose the person who posted it was a young teen, judging by her skill in writing, the sentiment I think is very common among adults: that is to say, art and clearly perceivable classical beauty go hand-in-hand. To me the question of what defines art has always been rather difficult, and my current theories are a bit too lengthy for a single post, but I want to try to address her comment at least shortly. For me, what I define as art is always beautiful, but it is beautiful by its transformation through the medium and not by the real-world qualities of its parts. That Otto Dix often painted the grotesque does not mean that the painting is just the grotesque mirror of the world, because by many factors, such as subject, symbolism, style, composition and color palette, the objects and ideas are, if you will allow the reference, transubstantiated into something completely new. But I also have to admit that what we accept as art is ultimately subjective. And I can no more successfully argue against a teen's disgust and rejection of Otto Dix than I can of an art critic's rejection of the Avant-garde. </div>
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EEHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642044214760840611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929143980639047168.post-61569945763055373662013-04-19T12:37:00.002-04:002013-04-19T12:40:59.129-04:00Adolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli (October 14, 1824 – June 29, 1886)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>"I think of Monticelli terribly often here. He was a strong man–a little cracked or rather very much so–dreaming of the sun and of love and gaiety, but always harassed by poverty–of an extremely refined taste as a colourist, a thoroughbred man of a rare race, continuing the best traditions of the past. He died at Marseilles in rather sad circumstances, and probably after passing through a regular Gethsemane. Now listen, for myself I am sure that I am continuing his work here, as if I were his son or his brother."</i></div>
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Reverred by van Gogh, adored by the likes of <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Paul%20Cezanne" target="_blank">Cézanne</a>, today Monticelli is not only mostly forgotten, but quite often disliked when remembered. For me, his paintings are clearly fantastic combinations of classical themes and a completely novel style. Where does all the dislike arise from?<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yetserday, in my post on <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Joseph%20Mallord%20William%20Turner" target="_blank">Turner</a>, I mentioned Constable quite a bit, so today I thought I might give you some visual context. To begin with, despite what most people think of him today, Constable was quite unorthodox at times; and it was in those times he was absolutely brilliant, such as in the pre-Impressionistic pieces <i>Flatford Mill from the Lock</i> and <i>Tree Trunks</i>. And though the revolutionary aspects of his works might have been less common and less fantastic than Turner's, it is only because the comparison between the two tends to be forced, owing to their tense history, that the legacy of Constable is small in the world of art today: a sad and unwarranted placing, I think. And I should add, while labeled generally as a Romanticist, he displayed many similarities to <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Realism" target="_blank">Realists</a>, especially to <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Jean-Baptiste-Camille%20Corot" target="_blank">Corot</a>, such as in <i>Malvern Hall</i> and in <i>The Cornfield,</i> below. </span></div>
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I had once heard a story that <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/2013/04/john-constable-june-11-1776-march-31.html" target="_blank">John Constable</a>, a contemporary of Turner's and a Romantic painter, upon visiting a Turner exhibition for the first time, swore he would quit painting from then on, as he could never reach the heights that Turner travelled on. Looking back on this story, I think it's most likely apocraphyl, because I can't seem to locate it anywhere at the moment and Constable and Turner's relationship was far from amicable; at one point, the two had their paintings exhibited side-by-side, in light of which which Turner placed a bright-red stroke on his piece in order to detract from the duller and more common reds of Constable's; Constable famously said soon afterwards, "He has been here, and fired a gun." But, no matter the veracity of the tale, if any artist in his time could shake the resolve of his contemporaries, it would be Turner. I find it almost impossible to compare him to any of his contemporaries in the least regard. Most of Turner's works bear such strangely wonderful and misty exhalations of colors and such ghostlike compositions that only by stretching forward towards the <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.fr/search/label/Impressionism" target="_blank">Impressionists</a> and <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.fr/search/label/Tonalism" target="_blank">Tonalists</a> can one begin to feel some sort of similarities. Futhermore, some of his later works move even further in time, towards <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.fr/search/label/Abstract%20Expressionism" target="_blank">Abstraction</a>, such as <i>Sunrise with Sea Monsters</i>, just below. </div>
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Just to add a bit of context to the story, the painting that Constable so despised is now featured below. It unfortunately is not the best version of the piece, but through it I hope you can better imagine Constable's surprise whenTurner, right before the exhibition's opening, stepped beside him and dabbed onto his somewhat somber piece a bright red buoy. </div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">I had intended to write daily articles when I posted on here last April, but, unfortunately, I soon encountered many unintended obstacles. The foremost, as the picture above hints, was a fire. (I've found that fires are not most terrible in the number of objects they consume, but in the amount of time they consume.) I won't get into the details of it, as I would hate to encumber this blog with a depressing post, but I will discuss a few changes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 20.796875px;">One change has been, and I think this is less depressing and more clerical, my financial situation. So, while I'm not dying on the streets, a little extra capital would be nice. That is why I have a new link/image on the right side, furnished by <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.fr/search/label/Peter%20Paul%20Rubens" target="_blank">Peter Paul Rubens</a>, which can accept donations into my PayPal account. They are not donations in the tax-deductable sense (I believe they are considered gifts in the US and certain other countries), but I would highly appreciate any amount you would be willing to give, only, of course, if you can truly spare to give. I have also thought about including one or a couple of advertisements on the site, but I'm not yet sure I'll do so, unless I can make it work well aesthetically.</span></span></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cLOzsinO_d8/T3jcedXe0SI/AAAAAAAACFc/ZmIuYe-Kpd4/s1600/Self-Portrait+(1917+-+Claude+Monet)" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cLOzsinO_d8/T3jcedXe0SI/AAAAAAAACFc/ZmIuYe-Kpd4/s320/Self-Portrait+(1917+-+Claude+Monet)" width="248" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Self-Portrait</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1917</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><br />
</span></span></div>EEHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642044214760840611noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929143980639047168.post-88222308916488755422011-06-01T21:47:00.001-04:002011-06-01T21:49:28.665-04:00Cypress Trees and Absentee Bloggers <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_kwCoiILJkA/TebqoPMlwEI/AAAAAAAAB9w/0UVFKR0SxLQ/s1600/Two+Cypresses+%25281889+-+Vincent+van+Gogh%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_kwCoiILJkA/TebqoPMlwEI/AAAAAAAAB9w/0UVFKR0SxLQ/s320/Two+Cypresses+%25281889+-+Vincent+van+Gogh%2529.jpg" width="246" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Two Cypresses</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Vincent van Gogh</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>1889</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As a quick explanation of my absence, there are a large number of issues that I'm currently facing, such as moving and starting a new job, which are keeping me unbearably busy. Normal posting (i.e., every day) may not resume for a little bit, but I'll keep you posted on all events, and very soon all will be normal again. Thus spoke Zarathustra. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div>EEHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642044214760840611noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929143980639047168.post-5643734646427423322011-05-31T05:01:00.000-04:002011-05-31T05:01:01.009-04:00Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525 – September 9, 1569) <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lUBPx4OM2nI/TeR2XX3hIFI/AAAAAAAAB9U/R-PXul2RpEM/s1600/The+Fall+of+the+Rebel+Angels+%25281562+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lUBPx4OM2nI/TeR2XX3hIFI/AAAAAAAAB9U/R-PXul2RpEM/s320/The+Fall+of+the+Rebel+Angels+%25281562+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Fall of the Rebel Angels</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1562</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I'm back! The lack of updates over the past few days had to do with me running off for Memorial Weekend. I usually try to inform you when I'm going to be taking some time off, but that's not quite been the most accurate system. Oh well! On to the post. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bruegel the Elder was a fabulous painter who created a lot of the imagery that surrounds our conception of biblical stories. His <i>The Tower of Babel</i>, see below,<i> </i>is an image that transformed my view of that Genesis tale in my childhood years. As for Bruegel's style, his descent from <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Hieronymus%20Bosch">Bosch</a> is very evident, especially in works, such as the one above, where the swirling of demons and symbols echoes Bosch beautifully. There is also so much, not only in the myriad characters in his works, but also in his beautiful landscapes, which often go unnoticed, but held so much of the soul of his paintings. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6_CERvSyAZM/TeR2Ydzl4eI/AAAAAAAAB9Y/mL1nundNp9s/s1600/The+Hunters+in+the+Snow+%2528January%2529+%25281565+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="222" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6_CERvSyAZM/TeR2Ydzl4eI/AAAAAAAAB9Y/mL1nundNp9s/s320/The+Hunters+in+the+Snow+%2528January%2529+%25281565+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Hunters in the Snow (January)</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1565</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SMadXE-NVPY/TeR2aDo3EXI/AAAAAAAAB9g/mlWu7DRscNs/s1600/The+Peasant+and+the+Birdnester+%25281568+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-SMadXE-NVPY/TeR2aDo3EXI/AAAAAAAAB9g/mlWu7DRscNs/s320/The+Peasant+and+the+Birdnester+%25281568+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Peasant and the Birdnester</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1568</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0EYxInmrCVE/TeR2bKSCa0I/AAAAAAAAB9k/R9NM40GfVoE/s1600/The+Tower+of+Babel+%25281563+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0EYxInmrCVE/TeR2bKSCa0I/AAAAAAAAB9k/R9NM40GfVoE/s320/The+Tower+of+Babel+%25281563+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Tower of Babel</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1563</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vkGee6CPyGw/TeR2ZJBTtuI/AAAAAAAAB9c/8Y39zUx7Tic/s1600/The+Parable+of+the+Blind+Leading+the+Blind+%25281568+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vkGee6CPyGw/TeR2ZJBTtuI/AAAAAAAAB9c/8Y39zUx7Tic/s320/The+Parable+of+the+Blind+Leading+the+Blind+%25281568+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1568</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2DBnaMCZ-eY/TeR2cAy9XRI/AAAAAAAAB9o/ZscFNIll_J8/s1600/Big+Fishes+Eat+Little+Fishes+%2528c.+1556+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2DBnaMCZ-eY/TeR2cAy9XRI/AAAAAAAAB9o/ZscFNIll_J8/s320/Big+Fishes+Eat+Little+Fishes+%2528c.+1556+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Big Fishes Eat Little Fishes</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">c. 1556</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FJ-3LxlYJTU/TeR2dfCvJEI/AAAAAAAAB9s/GttrdWylUZ4/s1600/Christ+and+the+Woman+taken+in+Adultery+%25281565+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FJ-3LxlYJTU/TeR2dfCvJEI/AAAAAAAAB9s/GttrdWylUZ4/s320/Christ+and+the+Woman+taken+in+Adultery+%25281565+-+Pieter+Bruegel+the+Elder%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Christ and the Woman taken in Adultery</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1565</span></div>EEHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642044214760840611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929143980639047168.post-25294735505511775282011-05-27T05:58:00.002-04:002012-04-01T18:37:06.497-04:00Herbert Draper (1863 – September 22, 1920)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CIugRqTWePM/Td8h8JZpILI/AAAAAAAAB84/izIOf2CpDkw/s1600/The+Lament+for+Icarus+%25281898+-+Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CIugRqTWePM/Td8h8JZpILI/AAAAAAAAB84/izIOf2CpDkw/s320/The+Lament+for+Icarus+%25281898+-+Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Lament for Icarus</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1898</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Draper was a magnificent painter, who like so many Classicists was completely forgotten. That Draper had amazing technique and great sense of composition, unfortunately, mattered little to those who necessitated an at least <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Impressionism">Impressionistic</a> style, progressively speaking; but I love Draper and the Classicists, nonetheless. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7g6pekP6sT8/Td8h88uOqHI/AAAAAAAAB88/lpIsdctag4E/s1600/Pot+Pourri+%25281897+-+Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7g6pekP6sT8/Td8h88uOqHI/AAAAAAAAB88/lpIsdctag4E/s320/Pot+Pourri+%25281897+-+Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Potpourri</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1897</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Fg9i-Ed9dSY/Td8h-xuCskI/AAAAAAAAB9A/ft2QgUhUSXg/s1600/Clyties+of+the+Mist+%2528Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Fg9i-Ed9dSY/Td8h-xuCskI/AAAAAAAAB9A/ft2QgUhUSXg/s320/Clyties+of+the+Mist+%2528Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" width="174" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Clyties of the Mist</span></b> </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bq0oNltxyxs/Td8iAgoaJxI/AAAAAAAAB9E/WOPtDSeeBQE/s1600/Ariadne+Deserted+by+Theseus+%25281898+-+Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Bq0oNltxyxs/Td8iAgoaJxI/AAAAAAAAB9E/WOPtDSeeBQE/s320/Ariadne+Deserted+by+Theseus+%25281898+-+Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Ariadne Deserted by Theseus</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1898</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sDaVRLjFm3o/Td8iEAFZZXI/AAAAAAAAB9I/hRHazoJCaC4/s1600/Portrait+of+Miss+Barbara+de+Selincourt+%2528Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sDaVRLjFm3o/Td8iEAFZZXI/AAAAAAAAB9I/hRHazoJCaC4/s320/Portrait+of+Miss+Barbara+de+Selincourt+%2528Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" width="161" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Portrait of Miss Barbara de Selincourt</span></b></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GBVBGwxPFRI/Td8iF8yxi1I/AAAAAAAAB9M/nAPlbhH0R5o/s1600/The+Water+Nymph+%25281898+-+Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="164" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GBVBGwxPFRI/Td8iF8yxi1I/AAAAAAAAB9M/nAPlbhH0R5o/s320/The+Water+Nymph+%25281898+-+Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Water Nymph</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1898</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ccNLqfqsA3o/Td8iJRf315I/AAAAAAAAB9Q/NrsM1Tbsoes/s1600/The+Pearls+of+Aphrodite+%2528Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ccNLqfqsA3o/Td8iJRf315I/AAAAAAAAB9Q/NrsM1Tbsoes/s320/The+Pearls+of+Aphrodite+%2528Herbert+Draper%2529.jpg" width="148" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Pearls of Aphrodite</span></b></div></div>EEHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642044214760840611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929143980639047168.post-13260370644992516502011-05-26T05:45:00.001-04:002011-05-26T05:45:00.296-04:00Jean Delville (January 19, 1867 – January 19, 1953) <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Aq-mymYOOzc/Td3Owx8BqJI/AAAAAAAAB8c/NqpHKxJ6jSc/s1600/The+Idol+of+Perversity+%25281891+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Aq-mymYOOzc/Td3Owx8BqJI/AAAAAAAAB8c/NqpHKxJ6jSc/s320/The+Idol+of+Perversity+%25281891+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Idol of Perversity</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1891</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Delville, for me, exudes the early 20th century unlike any other artist; and, incredibly, he began to do so from the anachronistic perch of the 19th. But it's not just a representation of a zeitgeist, presaged or not, that makes Delville great, but its his absolutely unique style that I could only define as one of hyper-sensuality (he was a Theosophist, though I never understood by that group was so lascivious in their arts). And it should go without saying that Delville died unappreciated, and has only recently undergone a revival, reevaluation, recognition or whatever you'd like to call the perverse act of recognizing an artist after the comfort of a half-century's repose, at which time an artist's corpse can hardly restrain its excitement from all of the accolades. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A50JavFCcCc/Td3Oxn4HqyI/AAAAAAAAB8g/h252nadROZU/s1600/Satan%2527s+Treasures+%25281895+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="312" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-A50JavFCcCc/Td3Oxn4HqyI/AAAAAAAAB8g/h252nadROZU/s320/Satan%2527s+Treasures+%25281895+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Satan's Treasures</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1895</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-25y9flNWoC4/Td3Oy0e0HiI/AAAAAAAAB8k/5yFU9zMmRlU/s1600/Orpheus+%25281893+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="259" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-25y9flNWoC4/Td3Oy0e0HiI/AAAAAAAAB8k/5yFU9zMmRlU/s320/Orpheus+%25281893+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Orpheus</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1893</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mSaZZC7_v80/Td3O0f460II/AAAAAAAAB8o/SyJjqHVU6KM/s1600/The+School+of+Silence+%25281929+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mSaZZC7_v80/Td3O0f460II/AAAAAAAAB8o/SyJjqHVU6KM/s320/The+School+of+Silence+%25281929+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" width="272" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The School of Silence</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1929</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SD9IgXwAM4c/Td3O1m2hLAI/AAAAAAAAB8s/kCYO4_f9jZM/s1600/Parsifal+%25281890+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SD9IgXwAM4c/Td3O1m2hLAI/AAAAAAAAB8s/kCYO4_f9jZM/s320/Parsifal+%25281890+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Parsifal</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b></b>1890</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CUGp9pFWGVQ/Td3O3l2DJkI/AAAAAAAAB8w/L5msR_Rqx58/s1600/The+Love+of+Souls+%25281900+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-CUGp9pFWGVQ/Td3O3l2DJkI/AAAAAAAAB8w/L5msR_Rqx58/s320/The+Love+of+Souls+%25281900+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" width="199" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Love of Souls</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1900</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_qQCqZddPu8/Td3O4n-nOtI/AAAAAAAAB80/PH72NaG6Mug/s1600/Mysteriosa+%2528or+Portrait+of+Mrs.+Stuart+Merrill%2529+%25281892+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_qQCqZddPu8/Td3O4n-nOtI/AAAAAAAAB80/PH72NaG6Mug/s320/Mysteriosa+%2528or+Portrait+of+Mrs.+Stuart+Merrill%2529+%25281892+-+Jean+Delville%2529.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Mysteriosa <i>or</i> Portrait of Mrs. Stuart Merrill</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1892</span></div>EEHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642044214760840611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929143980639047168.post-34006692862816206362011-05-25T05:02:00.000-04:002011-05-25T05:02:00.515-04:00Gustave Caillebotte (August 19, 1848 – February 21, 1894) <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w0iX6Mll0F8/Tdx_kbsYYeI/AAAAAAAAB8E/S0QUT3NRw1I/s1600/Woman+at+a+Dressing+Table+%2528c.+1873+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-w0iX6Mll0F8/Tdx_kbsYYeI/AAAAAAAAB8E/S0QUT3NRw1I/s320/Woman+at+a+Dressing+Table+%2528c.+1873+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Woman at a Dressing Table</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">c. 1873</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Caillebotte was a wonderful artist with a great grasp on representing soft emotions, though he is remembered far more, rather unfortunately, for his patronage of the arts, specifically the Impressionists. Patrons are littered throughout the arts, either out of the fondness or necessity of the painter; and they certainly aren't frivolous characters in history; but certainly the value of the patron isn't above the artist; so what should we make of an artist who is remembered more fondly as a patron? (Did you notice how many semicolons I used?) Personally, I think he's a great artist, and all else is secondary. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BjiTuUzhdfE/Tdx_3KlS9vI/AAAAAAAAB8Q/wanZ095CJro/s1600/Fruit+Displayed+on+a+Stand+%2528c.+1882+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="243" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BjiTuUzhdfE/Tdx_3KlS9vI/AAAAAAAAB8Q/wanZ095CJro/s320/Fruit+Displayed+on+a+Stand+%2528c.+1882+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Fruit Displayed on a Stand</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">c. 1882</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z85fOSYX_NA/Tdx_gL8aYgI/AAAAAAAAB74/EnpYxnjhGog/s1600/Paris+Street+%25281877+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-z85fOSYX_NA/Tdx_gL8aYgI/AAAAAAAAB74/EnpYxnjhGog/s320/Paris+Street+%25281877+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" width="314" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Paris Street</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1877</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X2-DEK12gc8/Tdx_nK2BWMI/AAAAAAAAB8I/LnwkWubrTlo/s1600/Chrysanthemums%252C+Garden+at+Petit+Gennevilliers+%25281893+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X2-DEK12gc8/Tdx_nK2BWMI/AAAAAAAAB8I/LnwkWubrTlo/s320/Chrysanthemums%252C+Garden+at+Petit+Gennevilliers+%25281893+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" width="194" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Chrysanthemums, Garden at Petit Gennevilliers</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1893</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e1tg1_y1wdw/Tdx_fFbAWWI/AAAAAAAAB70/i1hlm8ISSB8/s1600/Floor+Strippers+%25281875+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-e1tg1_y1wdw/Tdx_fFbAWWI/AAAAAAAAB70/i1hlm8ISSB8/s320/Floor+Strippers+%25281875+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Floor Strippers</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1875</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HgIMnLMmdH0/Tdx_i5YGEtI/AAAAAAAAB8A/Bs1eZOXwhMY/s1600/The+Yerres%252C+Rain+%25281875+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HgIMnLMmdH0/Tdx_i5YGEtI/AAAAAAAAB8A/Bs1eZOXwhMY/s320/The+Yerres%252C+Rain+%25281875+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Yerres, Rain</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1875</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Vf887LXYcoE/Tdx_hqkQDdI/AAAAAAAAB78/gwVq_FiUU9E/s1600/Naked+Woman+Lying+on+a+Couch+%25281873+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Vf887LXYcoE/Tdx_hqkQDdI/AAAAAAAAB78/gwVq_FiUU9E/s320/Naked+Woman+Lying+on+a+Couch+%25281873+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Naked Woman Lying on a Couch</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1873</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j3gMQujxWcU/Tdx_5PPLL6I/AAAAAAAAB8Y/b2pMgmkeuwc/s1600/Display+of+Chickens+and+Game+Birds+%25281882+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="227" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j3gMQujxWcU/Tdx_5PPLL6I/AAAAAAAAB8Y/b2pMgmkeuwc/s320/Display+of+Chickens+and+Game+Birds+%25281882+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Display of Chickens and Game Birds</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1882</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mra9ixSoB40/Tdx_2Es8owI/AAAAAAAAB8M/GrEsVIvl7AA/s1600/Rising+Road+%25281881+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mra9ixSoB40/Tdx_2Es8owI/AAAAAAAAB8M/GrEsVIvl7AA/s320/Rising+Road+%25281881+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Rising Road</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1881</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-csiP2iGjkpw/Tdx_3wPrt3I/AAAAAAAAB8U/zDZU0ShuItM/s1600/Self-Portrait+%2528c.+1892+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-csiP2iGjkpw/Tdx_3wPrt3I/AAAAAAAAB8U/zDZU0ShuItM/s320/Self-Portrait+%2528c.+1892+-+Gustave+Caillebotte%2529.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Self-Portrait</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">c. 1892</span></div>EEHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642044214760840611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929143980639047168.post-80271183109633309912011-05-24T05:47:00.000-04:002011-05-24T05:47:00.676-04:00Peter McArdle (December 17, 1965) <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SsY8ehakn5c/TdsBFCWszaI/AAAAAAAAB7I/sW-bKndPJi0/s1600/Artist+and+Model+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SsY8ehakn5c/TdsBFCWszaI/AAAAAAAAB7I/sW-bKndPJi0/s320/Artist+and+Model+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Artist and Model</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">McArdle was one of the founders, and now an expat, of the Stuckist movement. Stuckism is the reaction of a group of British painters to <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Conceptual%20Art">Conceptual Art,</a> which the painters viewed as a charlatan affair; in turn, they proposed figurative painting as a superior alternative. While Stuckists share a set of ideological similarities, their styles radically differ; for example, McArdle is a Surrealist with <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/American%20Realism">American Realist</a> overtones, others are <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Expressionism">Expressionists</a>, <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Pop%20Art">Pop Artists</a>, etcetera; but all of them despise Conceptual Art. Whatever you may think of Conceptual Art, you can't say the Stuckists lack an ethos. And McArdle's one of my favorites from the movement. He has a <a href="http://www.myspace.com/petermcardle">Myspace account</a> (people still use Myspace?), which you should visit if you want to see more examples of his art. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_ywnahSFJMY/TdsBGJ-uvAI/AAAAAAAAB7M/vqKHzh23UY4/s1600/Venice+2+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="293" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-_ywnahSFJMY/TdsBGJ-uvAI/AAAAAAAAB7M/vqKHzh23UY4/s320/Venice+2+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Venice 2</span></b></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X5F9K3Ak3UQ/TdsBIXKO0bI/AAAAAAAAB7U/mxFozIOtobs/s1600/He+Is+Dancing+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-X5F9K3Ak3UQ/TdsBIXKO0bI/AAAAAAAAB7U/mxFozIOtobs/s320/He+Is+Dancing+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">He Is Dancing</span></b></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xNaN23wRjS0/TdsBJoApWAI/AAAAAAAAB7Y/peHSFMYMKkI/s1600/Seated+Figure+10am+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xNaN23wRjS0/TdsBJoApWAI/AAAAAAAAB7Y/peHSFMYMKkI/s320/Seated+Figure+10am+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Seated Figure 10am </span></b></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QErCtHEoLfM/TdsBLrFb5cI/AAAAAAAAB7c/tfNInk8-dWw/s1600/Silence+Between+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QErCtHEoLfM/TdsBLrFb5cI/AAAAAAAAB7c/tfNInk8-dWw/s320/Silence+Between+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" width="318" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Silence Between</span></b></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RWf-taWD1TA/TdsBM70aJOI/AAAAAAAAB7g/DAaawGwANZ8/s1600/Strange+Love+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RWf-taWD1TA/TdsBM70aJOI/AAAAAAAAB7g/DAaawGwANZ8/s320/Strange+Love+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Strange Love</span></b></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CuJp8ODSrOs/TdsBOEWVGKI/AAAAAAAAB7k/uFME6yUux6w/s1600/An+Annunciation+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CuJp8ODSrOs/TdsBOEWVGKI/AAAAAAAAB7k/uFME6yUux6w/s320/An+Annunciation+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">An Annunciation</span></b></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PjzC13y1s2k/TdsBPDhMTVI/AAAAAAAAB7o/e2ZV2ebNe8I/s1600/Nude+-+Head+and+Shoulder+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PjzC13y1s2k/TdsBPDhMTVI/AAAAAAAAB7o/e2ZV2ebNe8I/s320/Nude+-+Head+and+Shoulder+%2528Peter+McArdle%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Nude - Head and Shoulder </span></b></div>EEHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642044214760840611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929143980639047168.post-74950366657660522532011-05-23T05:46:00.010-04:002011-05-23T05:46:00.136-04:00Giovanni Baglione (1566 – December 30, 1643) <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Baglione was a very able painter, but it's his interaction with one particular contemporary of his that I find to be the most interesting aspect of his life. As you can tell, there are two versions of Baglione's <i>Divine Love</i> in this post. The second version, which is above, was created to be in competition with <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Caravaggio">Caravaggio's</a> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FACUMF42ZLQ/Tdne1ORsJII/AAAAAAAAB7E/luYCj8XZfKk/s1600/Love+Conquers+All+%25281602+-+Caravaggio%2529.jpg" style="font-style: italic;">Love Conquers All</a>, though both were created for the same patron, Cardinal Giustiniani. The devil in the the second version is widely believed to be based on Caravaggio himself (and, by symbolic implication, some historians see this as bearing a charge of sodomy against Caravaggio). Following the track of these historians, this representation caused Caravaggio to write and circulate a defamatory poem about Baglione soon after the painting's completion. In turn, the poem so outraged Baglione that, in 1603, he filed libel charges against Caravaggio. Baglione won the case, and Caravaggio was sent to jail for a couple of weeks. The strange story culminated, ironically, with Baglione becoming Caravaggio's first biographer (though certainly not his most sympathetic). In terms of artistic merit, I think the feud was easily settled on the side of Caravaggio; in terms of character, I'd have to second the last sentiment. What do you think?</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W2CcGYkX9Ng/TdncbvY4k6I/AAAAAAAAB60/7srdh6WXh6E/s1600/The+Virgin+and+the+Child+with+Angels+%2528Giovanni+Baglione%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W2CcGYkX9Ng/TdncbvY4k6I/AAAAAAAAB60/7srdh6WXh6E/s320/The+Virgin+and+the+Child+with+Angels+%2528Giovanni+Baglione%2529.jpg" width="244" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Virgin and the Child with Angels</span></b></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-quBNLIsoNrE/Tdc-4uf7LlI/AAAAAAAAB6U/Y-Kl0jsL3gk/s1600/Achilles+%25281952+-+Barnett+Newman%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-quBNLIsoNrE/Tdc-4uf7LlI/AAAAAAAAB6U/Y-Kl0jsL3gk/s320/Achilles+%25281952+-+Barnett+Newman%2529.jpg" width="265" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Achilles</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1952</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>I often feel that talking at length about Minimalism is somewhat contradictory to any sort of strong attempt at defining it (though this could be more semantics than metaphysics at play). Also, since I don't quite know how long my weak internet connection will last today, it might be better to let the Minimalist of the post to speak on my, or rather <i>his</i>, behalf; "What is the explanation of the seemingly insane drive of man to be painter and poet if it is not an act of defiance against man's fall and an assertion that he return to the Garden of Eden? For the artists are the first men."<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LFqtl9baPoA/Tdc-9-QmLSI/AAAAAAAAB6k/-4zO2Vt3AEI/s1600/Who%2527s+Afraid+of+Red%252C+Yellow+and+Blue+%25281966+-+Barnett+Newman%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LFqtl9baPoA/Tdc-9-QmLSI/AAAAAAAAB6k/-4zO2Vt3AEI/s320/Who%2527s+Afraid+of+Red%252C+Yellow+and+Blue+%25281966+-+Barnett+Newman%2529.jpg" width="204" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1966</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QxA8_eg4qxs/Tdc-_YHxdqI/AAAAAAAAB6o/pPE8pAs0ysI/s1600/Jericho+%25281968-1969+-+Barnett+Newman%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QxA8_eg4qxs/Tdc-_YHxdqI/AAAAAAAAB6o/pPE8pAs0ysI/s320/Jericho+%25281968-1969+-+Barnett+Newman%2529.jpg" width="316" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Jericho</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1968-1969</span></div>EEHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642044214760840611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929143980639047168.post-76593201967490422822011-05-21T10:22:00.000-04:002011-05-21T10:22:01.001-04:00Dosso Dossi (c. 1487 – 1542) <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Hey guys and gals! I'm posting this entry while in transit, so you don't have to go a day without something new. But, I may not be able to post Sunday, so that day's still way up in the air. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dossi was a great High Renaissance painter. Though you can't claim he was revolutionary in style or subject, he always was able to convey something emotionally well. And I think in art so much hinges on the ability to somehow imprint your emotions onto the canvas, that success is often solely defined by this quality. Of course I'm not implying that Dossi was stylistically deficient, as his style was quite good, but, rather, that his legacy has lain in an emotional mark on the characters and environments. Or, perhaps, I'm completely wrong. </div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Zw-3lhUVJwo/TdcyaxcCksI/AAAAAAAAB6E/JG6AVxZxtms/s1600/Portrait+of+a+Man+%2528Dosso+Dossi%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Zw-3lhUVJwo/TdcyaxcCksI/AAAAAAAAB6E/JG6AVxZxtms/s320/Portrait+of+a+Man+%2528Dosso+Dossi%2529.jpg" width="262" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Portrait of a Man</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BoaFb3WkOm8/TdcycJyFGSI/AAAAAAAAB6I/lFh32D6W1S8/s1600/Saints+John+and+Bartholomew+with+Donors+%25281527+-+Dosso+Dossi%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BoaFb3WkOm8/TdcycJyFGSI/AAAAAAAAB6I/lFh32D6W1S8/s320/Saints+John+and+Bartholomew+with+Donors+%25281527+-+Dosso+Dossi%2529.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Saints John and Bartholomew with Donors</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1527</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--O7oganibvM/TdcydDW1S4I/AAAAAAAAB6M/MBBqn9Q62Hg/s1600/Portrait+of+a+Warrior+%25281530+-+Dosso+Dossi%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--O7oganibvM/TdcydDW1S4I/AAAAAAAAB6M/MBBqn9Q62Hg/s320/Portrait+of+a+Warrior+%25281530+-+Dosso+Dossi%2529.jpg" width="258" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Portrait of a Warrior</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1530</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1qgIqwZ21gA/TdcyfOjXrRI/AAAAAAAAB6Q/x9jLkW_jmXI/s1600/The+Virgin+Appearing+to+Saints+John+the+Baptist+and+John+the+Evangelist+%25281520+-+Dosso+Dossi%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1qgIqwZ21gA/TdcyfOjXrRI/AAAAAAAAB6Q/x9jLkW_jmXI/s320/The+Virgin+Appearing+to+Saints+John+the+Baptist+and+John+the+Evangelist+%25281520+-+Dosso+Dossi%2529.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Virgin Appearing to Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1520</span></div>EEHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642044214760840611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929143980639047168.post-25694211440313290732011-05-20T16:17:00.003-04:002011-05-20T22:35:33.422-04:00Marc Chagall (July 6, 1887 – 28 March 28, 1985) <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As a quick note, I'm leaving the city for a couple of days and, while I can usually post from away, this time I'll be in a desolate forested area, which will almost certainly have no reception. So, until the end of the weekend keep your expectations low for new posts. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now, to Chagall. The influence and stature of Chagall in the artistic community is tremendous, and even those in the artistic community who take no pleasure in his work recognize him as a great painter. While there is a lot to laud in terms of Chagall's content,–the noted symbolism of which, he claimed to be unintentional and merely a viewer's subjective experience–it his use of color that he is best known for: a development from the Fauvist movement. It's perhaps a viable argument that, aside from <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Wassily%20Kandinsky">Kandinsky</a>, Chagall had the best sense of color in the 20th century. I'll round out this text with one of my favorite quotes by Chagall; "My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent."</div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R_1qCiHoL8Y/TdbOBciwJQI/AAAAAAAAB5Y/IllWBKaCSLc/s1600/The+Concert+%25281957+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="188" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R_1qCiHoL8Y/TdbOBciwJQI/AAAAAAAAB5Y/IllWBKaCSLc/s320/The+Concert+%25281957+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Concert</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1957</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1lYLy4R7Zwg/TdbOJLmKClI/AAAAAAAAB5g/_C4889e_-PI/s1600/The+Praying+Jew+%25281914+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1lYLy4R7Zwg/TdbOJLmKClI/AAAAAAAAB5g/_C4889e_-PI/s320/The+Praying+Jew+%25281914+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Praying Jew</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1914</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T1SBeNWbL3Y/TdbOJvxYc-I/AAAAAAAAB5k/gJVnwm0yv1o/s1600/Red+Nude+Sitting+Up+%25281908+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T1SBeNWbL3Y/TdbOJvxYc-I/AAAAAAAAB5k/gJVnwm0yv1o/s320/Red+Nude+Sitting+Up+%25281908+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" width="248" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Red Nude Sitting Up</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1908</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rYhaw5bd_nE/TdbOLDVLhbI/AAAAAAAAB5o/kbJI2ooPE-w/s1600/Cemetery+Gates+%25281917+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rYhaw5bd_nE/TdbOLDVLhbI/AAAAAAAAB5o/kbJI2ooPE-w/s320/Cemetery+Gates+%25281917+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" width="257" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Cemetery Gates</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1917</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NZiKulyRufk/TdbOMKlIAYI/AAAAAAAAB5s/bjkYczCnb4s/s1600/Paris+Through+the+Window+%25281913+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="310" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NZiKulyRufk/TdbOMKlIAYI/AAAAAAAAB5s/bjkYczCnb4s/s320/Paris+Through+the+Window+%25281913+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Paris Through the Window</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1913</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O8CrJUBRiCA/TdbONgdsv9I/AAAAAAAAB5w/LMHhYTFnXuc/s1600/The+Sun+of+Paris+%25281975+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-O8CrJUBRiCA/TdbONgdsv9I/AAAAAAAAB5w/LMHhYTFnXuc/s320/The+Sun+of+Paris+%25281975+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" width="230" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Sun of Paris</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1975</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D3UfWKYfH5Y/TdbOOA-WkNI/AAAAAAAAB50/ievxh1op4Dk/s1600/The+Old+Jew+%25281912+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-D3UfWKYfH5Y/TdbOOA-WkNI/AAAAAAAAB50/ievxh1op4Dk/s320/The+Old+Jew+%25281912+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" width="233" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Old Jew</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1912</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PK1g2_l0UPo/TdbOQucuY5I/AAAAAAAAB54/eG2EZXymnH0/s1600/The+Comedians+%25281968+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="298" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PK1g2_l0UPo/TdbOQucuY5I/AAAAAAAAB54/eG2EZXymnH0/s320/The+Comedians+%25281968+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Comedians</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1968</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K26u8S8ITqo/TdbOR0bHXnI/AAAAAAAAB58/1-KPuYq03lg/s1600/Self-Portrait+with+White+Collar+%25281914+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K26u8S8ITqo/TdbOR0bHXnI/AAAAAAAAB58/1-KPuYq03lg/s320/Self-Portrait+with+White+Collar+%25281914+-+Marc+Chagall%2529.jpg" width="290" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Self-Portrait with White Collar</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1914</span></div>EEHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642044214760840611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929143980639047168.post-26292929250495271112011-05-19T05:31:00.003-04:002011-05-19T15:20:03.709-04:00Paul Ranson (March 29, 1864 – February 20, 1909) <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EwZtIzkKNKc/TdRa4E7L0DI/AAAAAAAAB5Q/0GTwk6uOpo0/s1600/Nabi+Landscape+%25281890+-+Paul+Ranson%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EwZtIzkKNKc/TdRa4E7L0DI/AAAAAAAAB5Q/0GTwk6uOpo0/s320/Nabi+Landscape+%25281890+-+Paul+Ranson%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Nabi Landscape</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1890</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Ranson was one of the central Nabi painters. In fact, he started the Académie Ranson with his wife, Marie-France Ranson; the school espoused the Nabi cause, and served as a haunt for famous Nabi painters to congregate, teach and attend. Though Ranson was intimately linked with the Nabi, a great portion of his style was derived from Japanese influences, with the two forms joining into something that appears nearly to be a part of the <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Art%20Nouveau">Art Nouveau</a> movement. A very central and strange artist. <br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fyUNX44QMd8/TdRaxlSZEFI/AAAAAAAAB5E/weAjqeN8Kyo/s1600/Three+Beeches+%2528c.+1905+-+Paul+Ranson%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fyUNX44QMd8/TdRaxlSZEFI/AAAAAAAAB5E/weAjqeN8Kyo/s320/Three+Beeches+%2528c.+1905+-+Paul+Ranson%2529.jpg" width="254" /></a></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Three Beeches</span></b><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">c. 1905</span></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KKyq6KBIrfg/TdRau_EcWGI/AAAAAAAAB48/J6lunou560g/s1600/The+Bathing+Place+%2528or+Lotus%2529+%25281906+-+Paul+Ranson%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KKyq6KBIrfg/TdRau_EcWGI/AAAAAAAAB48/J6lunou560g/s320/The+Bathing+Place+%2528or+Lotus%2529+%25281906+-+Paul+Ranson%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Bathing Place <i>or</i> Lotus</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1906</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-doPl4hipUHU/TdRa1kj7vDI/AAAAAAAAB5M/rGYgAlSuqFs/s1600/Vines+%2528c.+1902+-+Paul+Ranson%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="155" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-doPl4hipUHU/TdRa1kj7vDI/AAAAAAAAB5M/rGYgAlSuqFs/s320/Vines+%2528c.+1902+-+Paul+Ranson%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Vines</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">c. 1902</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aL-ZIOWibIM/TdRawRmP4sI/AAAAAAAAB5A/STS3E0GzhdU/s1600/The+Clearing+%2528or+Edge+of+the+Wood%2529+%2528c.+1895+-+Paul+Ranson%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="235" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aL-ZIOWibIM/TdRawRmP4sI/AAAAAAAAB5A/STS3E0GzhdU/s320/The+Clearing+%2528or+Edge+of+the+Wood%2529+%2528c.+1895+-+Paul+Ranson%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Clearing <i>or</i> Edge of the Wood</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">c. 1895</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3TfxCIhlIS8/TdRayxH5OCI/AAAAAAAAB5I/E8Z1GkK58Ts/s1600/Three+Bathers+among+the+Irises+%2528c.+1900+-+Paul+Ranson%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3TfxCIhlIS8/TdRayxH5OCI/AAAAAAAAB5I/E8Z1GkK58Ts/s320/Three+Bathers+among+the+Irises+%2528c.+1900+-+Paul+Ranson%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Three Bathers Among the Irises</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">c. 1900</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>EEHhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14642044214760840611noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929143980639047168.post-67450653537707195452011-05-18T05:53:00.000-04:002011-05-18T05:53:00.643-04:00Piero della Francesca (c. 1412 – October 12, 1492) <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C-1RMRXUFRA/TdNJlEpfDLI/AAAAAAAAB4Y/p2t7CT4fIxY/s1600/The+Madonna+della+Misericordia+%2528c.+1460+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-C-1RMRXUFRA/TdNJlEpfDLI/AAAAAAAAB4Y/p2t7CT4fIxY/s320/The+Madonna+della+Misericordia+%2528c.+1460+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" width="206" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Madonna Della Misericordia</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">c. 1460</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Piero was a mathematician as well as an artist. It might seem like an odd mixture, but artists were often carried into strange professions; <a href="http://dailyartist.blogspot.com/search/label/Wassily%20Kandinsky">Kandinsky</a>, for example, was an economist and lawyer. And while it might be tempting to fly into Piero's works with an expectation of geometrical and mathematical accents, the works rest much more on the emotional depictions of their characters and symbolism of their themes. More so, Piero somehow transcended that rigidity of position and expression common in the men and women in Early Renaissance paintings through subtle articulations. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DQHb6dHwjjI/TdNJoLftEdI/AAAAAAAAB4c/y6IMNsX-HFM/s1600/Nativity+%25281470+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-DQHb6dHwjjI/TdNJoLftEdI/AAAAAAAAB4c/y6IMNsX-HFM/s320/Nativity+%25281470+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" width="313" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Nativity</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1470</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WXsRK1GnX38/TdNJpjHlSwI/AAAAAAAAB4g/JpoGJFtCoWg/s1600/Polyptych+of+St.+Augustine+%25281460-1470+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WXsRK1GnX38/TdNJpjHlSwI/AAAAAAAAB4g/JpoGJFtCoWg/s320/Polyptych+of+St.+Augustine+%25281460-1470+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" width="281" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Polyptych of St. Augustine</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1460-1470</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ARZpXozt1q0/TdNJqm7dPVI/AAAAAAAAB4k/Qlb5FoswsA8/s1600/Burial+of+the+Wood+%25281455+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ARZpXozt1q0/TdNJqm7dPVI/AAAAAAAAB4k/Qlb5FoswsA8/s320/Burial+of+the+Wood+%25281455+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" width="173" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Burial of the Wood</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1455</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dVGEvnU9Y5s/TdNJrjQplbI/AAAAAAAAB4o/nMVAXo6IJqs/s1600/St.+Benedict+of+Nursia+%25281445-1462+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dVGEvnU9Y5s/TdNJrjQplbI/AAAAAAAAB4o/nMVAXo6IJqs/s320/St.+Benedict+of+Nursia+%25281445-1462+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" width="120" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">St. Benedict of Nursia</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1445-1462</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZnOC76aqQto/TdNJtq2EeJI/AAAAAAAAB4s/SB2NLly-FRE/s1600/The+Torture+of+the+Jew+%25281452-1466+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZnOC76aqQto/TdNJtq2EeJI/AAAAAAAAB4s/SB2NLly-FRE/s320/The+Torture+of+the+Jew+%25281452-1466+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">The Torture of the Jew</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1452-1466</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SBchRUrl520/TdNJutPSd5I/AAAAAAAAB4w/IIoe_jdLcIM/s1600/Stigmatization+of+St.+Francis+%25281487+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SBchRUrl520/TdNJutPSd5I/AAAAAAAAB4w/IIoe_jdLcIM/s320/Stigmatization+of+St.+Francis+%25281487+-+Piero+della+Francesca%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Stigmatization of St. Francis</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">1487</span></div><br />
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