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Tag Archives: Painting
One off: Jean-Siméon Chardin
Portrait of Madame Chardin, 1775 by Jean-Siméon Chardin “Chardin’s genre paintings, like Vermeer’s before him, go much further than that. By a technical feat which virtually defies analysis — though one writer has remarked helpfully on Chardin’s characteristic choice… Continue reading
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Category Art, Thought
Tags Absorption, Art, Diderot, Eva Vermandel, Jean-Baptiste Chardin, Michael Fried, Painting, Vermeer
Badger on painting and photography
“A painted portrait by, say, Holbein or Rembrandt, is an extremely complex artefact, part icon, part representation, part symbol, part antique. In viewing a Holbein or a Rembrandt “in the flesh,” so to speak, we are looking both at an… Continue reading
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Category Art, Criticism, Photography, Theory
Tags Criticism, Gerry Badger, Painting, Photography, Portraiture, The Avante-Garde, The Document, Theory
Baudelaire on photography
It’s too tempting by far to resist the urge to wonder to what extent Carjat managed in his portraits of Baudelaire – specifically in the one below – to capture his subject’s powerful suspicions about the very process he was… Continue reading
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Category Art, Photography, Theory
Tags Authenticity, Charles Baudelaire, Criticism, Etienne Carjat, Painting, Photography, The Document, Theory
Gustav Klimt
“Fritza Reidler”, by Gustav Klimt.
Philipp Haager
Philipp Haager, by way of but does it float.
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Category Art
Tags Abstraction, but does it float, Landscape, Painting, Philipp Haager
Paul Klee
Paul Klee “The Twittering Machine”.
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Category Art
Tags Abstract Expressionism, Abstraction, Art, Graffiti, Painting, Paul Klee
Turner and vision
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” — Marcel Proust.
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Category Art, Theory
Tags Art, J.M.W. Turner, Landscape, Marcel Proust, Painting, Vision
Cy Twombly
”Turning away from an imitation of the smears and scumbles of Franz Kline or de Kooning, which he had been practicing at Black Mountain College, Twombly took up graffiti as a way of interpreting the meaning of Action Painting’s mark,… Continue reading
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Category Art, Theory
Tags Abstraction, Artforum, Criticism, Cy Twombly, Graffiti, Jackson Pollock, Painting, Pictorial Nominalism, Rosalind Krauss, Theory
The Hunt in the Forest, by John Burnside
How children think of death is how the shadows gather between the trees: a hiding place for everything the grown-ups cannot name. Nevertheless, they hurry to keep their appointment far in the woods, at the meeting of parallel lines, where… Continue reading
Category Art, Photography, Poetry
Tags Art, Derek Mahon, John Burnside, Painting, Poetry, Richard Long, Sculpture, The Guardian (UK)
Helene Schjerfbeck
An impromptu postcard purchase in some gallery gift shop was the first encounter I can recall with the painting of Helene Schjerfbeck, which I’ve since struggled to find with any regularity. I think that her ability to craft such luminous… Continue reading
Category Art
Tags Finland, Helene Schjerfbeck, Modernism, Painting, Portraiture