Monthly Archives: January 2017
WHEN MUSIC CAN TELL
The lyrics of this song is about unrequited love, tells you about the loss of a loved one. The element is predominant throughout the song, which is dotted with thematically related words (shore and depths, the ocean and the waves, currents and sand). Having recalled moments of harmony (metaphorically swimming lived together in the same sea, above the dark abyss …
Read More »LOOKING FOR THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
He was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His most famous work “The Flowers of Evil”, https://www.amazon.com/Flowers-Evil-Charles-Baudelaire/dp/1449555438 expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the 19th century, where the themes of sex and death, lesbianism, metamorphosis and depression, urban corruption, lost innocence and alcohol not only gained him loyal …
Read More »WHERE YOUR INSTINCT PUSHES YOU AGAIN
The “Barbizon School“, developed between 1830 and 1870. Here the foundations were laid for Impressionist pictorial revolution in France. The artists of the Barbizon School often painted together, creating their works in the open countryside, sometimes for several days. Looking at the colors and shapes of natural subjects produced landscapes of great lyricism, with humble people working in the fields. …
Read More »PLACES OF THE PICTORIAL REALISM / BARBIZON, FRANCE
THE PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION OF COUNTRY LIFE – Jean Francois Millet
JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET 1/3 – A native of a village in the Normandy, who had two wives and nine children. He is regarded as an interpreter of the French realism of the late nineteenth century. Son of peasants, he began painting bathers, mythological figures and portraits. The influence of art of Daumier and Barbizon, helped to bring about a decisive …
Read More »JEAN FRANCOIS MILLET (1814/1875), FRENCH PAINTER – When the main characters are farmers at work
VICTOR CRISOSTOMO GOMEZ, PERUVIAN ARTIST – chest full of mysteries and surprises
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Read More »E. IRVING COUSE (1866/1936), AMERICAN ARTIST – culture of Taos Indians
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Read More »CHARLES BIRD KING (1785/1862) , AMERICAN ARTIST – PORTRAITS OF SIGNIFICANT TRIBESMEN
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