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Surrounded by Beauty: exhibition on modern dealer Vollard
Los Angeles Times ^
| Sept. 17, 2006
| barbara Isenberg
Posted on 09/18/2006 6:45:13 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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I always thought that this portrait of Vollard by Picasso showed a large, intelligent man (despite the fact that Cubism dissolves his lower body into the background).
To: Republicanprofessor
My goodness.
I never thought I'd live to see the day.....a cubist painting I actually like.
Goethe wrote: One should, at least once a day, see a pretty picture......
Thank you.
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09/18/2006 6:49:23 AM PDT
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starfish923
(Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
To: Sam Cree; Liz; Joe 6-pack; woofie; vannrox; giotto; iceskater; Conspiracy Guy; Dolphy; ...
Art ping.
Let Sam Cree, Woofie, or me know if you want on or off this fascinating art ping list.
To: starfish923
You are very welcome.
It took me a while to enjoy Cubism. It is very much a head game. The one that turned me on was Picasso's "Pieon in a nest with eggs" at the Munson Williams Proctor Institute in Utica, NY.
I could not find a image of it to post. But it creates a crazy feeling as the pigeon beats its wings to save the eggs from falling from the nest.
To: Republicanprofessor
And here's a sketch of Vollard by Picasso . . .
. . . and Renoir . . .
. . . and Cezanne. . .
This is a tiny image because the site won't let me link, but he has a cat in his lap. Pierre Bonnard.
Anybody who likes cats can't be all bad!
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posted on
09/18/2006 7:06:03 AM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
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To: AnAmericanMother
He looks like an interesting man.
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09/18/2006 7:20:51 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I'm not being paid enough to worry about all this stuff ... so I don't.)
To: Republicanprofessor
Nice ... I think it shows the world fractured into a million tiny pieces by the artist's own insanity.
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09/18/2006 7:24:08 AM PDT
by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: Tax-chick
A somewhat dour and phlegmatic French businessman with the soul of a poet.
It happens.
. . . what he looked like in later life.
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09/18/2006 7:31:04 AM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
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To: AnAmericanMother
I think I like him. I'd be dour and phlegmatic, myself, if my life weren't such a farce :-).
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posted on
09/18/2006 7:32:58 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(I'm not being paid enough to worry about all this stuff ... so I don't.)
To: Tax-chick
Oh, I like the type too. . . so much that I married one! (NOT French, at least he's only got a little French Huguenot way way back -- just a little dour and phlegmatic!)
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09/18/2006 7:50:10 AM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
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To: AnAmericanMother
I don't particularly share his taste in art, though.
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posted on
09/18/2006 8:10:10 AM PDT
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Tax-chick
(I'm not being paid enough to worry about all this stuff ... so I don't.)
To: Tax-chick
Oh, some of it's all right . . . but I'm like you, I'm a bit of a traditionalist.
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09/18/2006 8:16:22 AM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
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To: AnAmericanMother
Degas paintings are pretty, and Cezanne has lovely colors. "Representational" is my thing!
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posted on
09/18/2006 8:23:43 AM PDT
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Tax-chick
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To: Tax-chick
Exactly. The artist may have some internal concept or vision of ineffable meaning and beauty . . . or whatever . . .
. . . but it is worth precisely nothing unless he can communicate that to the viewer. And that's where the technical ability etc. comes into play.
. . . just posted that Dali because I like it. Representational and transcendent simultaneously -
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09/18/2006 8:28:11 AM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
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To: AnAmericanMother
I admire Dali, but I don't really like this one. Wrong mood maybe :-).
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09/18/2006 9:03:32 AM PDT
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Tax-chick
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To: Tax-chick
But at least you can tell what it IS without being told!
Once we can tell what a picture is, then the rest is our personal preferences.
This is the Dante engraving that I own a (probably forged) copy of:
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09/18/2006 9:12:53 AM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
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To: AnAmericanMother
Pretty. I like the wings.
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posted on
09/18/2006 9:15:33 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
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To: Tax-chick
The wings are nice. It's the blue of the angel's robe that I like the best - it almost vibrates.
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09/18/2006 9:19:44 AM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
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To: AnAmericanMother
It must be more vivid in real life, although it does look nice just in this image.
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09/18/2006 9:36:51 AM PDT
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Tax-chick
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The colors are brighter in the original.
It's very hard to get a true impression of a painting in a high-quality reproduction in a book, let alone a small image on the internet.
The thing that really brought that home to me was the Norman Rockwell exhibit that toured here to Atlanta. His paintings in person are amazing - more color, more detail, more life than any reproduction I've ever seen.
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09/18/2006 9:45:45 AM PDT
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AnAmericanMother
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