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Words that protect a nude
The essay that accompanies the girl being sold at a Roman slave market in the 1884 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) tries to cover up the nude with protective words. The writer, Titus Techera, performs an act of charity in … Continue reading
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Tagged A Roman Slave Market, art, Art Criticism, Beauty, Jean-Leon Gerome, Nude, Painting, Ricochet, Titus Techera
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The architecture of music
And vice versa, with painting thrown in. This is the subject of a fascinating essay written a decade ago by Steven Semes, author more recently of one of my bibles, The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, … Continue reading
Hail buildings archaeology!
Hugh Kavanagh, an Irish student of architecture from Cobh, Ireland – a seaside town known also as Queenstown, which was the Titanic’s last port of call and boasts Pugin’s St. Colman’s Cathedral – sends me an extraordinarily sensible essay. He … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Archaeology Ireland, Artistic Technique, Buildings Archaeology, Creativity, Death by Nostalgia, Hugh Cavanagh, Modern Architecture, Music, Novelty, Painting, Progressivity in Art
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Peter Thornton’s Providence
Tomorrow evening at City Hall, some of the buildings of Providence that I love and have photographed over the years will be on display as buildings loved and painted by the artist Peter Thornton of our fair city. His show … Continue reading
Painting in Porto, Port.
Malcolm Millais, author of Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, is a British engineer and architect who has retired to Porto, in Portugal, where he has taken up the pastime of painting – as Churchill did after his Gallipoli military … Continue reading
An idea for visual pushback
Architecture, along with almost every other major human endeavor outside of food and music, is largely visual in its effect. Traditional architects rely on the appeal of their work to the eye as they try to push back against the … Continue reading
Disproportion by definition
Above is my promised second reclining nude by Ingres, “The Sleeping Odalisque,” to be delivered after responses to my post “Naked proportion.” My promise to post another reclining nude by Ingres was slowed down by an apparent insufficiency of response. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Development, Humor
Tagged Ingres, Kim Karashian, Nude, Painting, Proportion, Roger Scruton
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Hazlitt on painting
Here is a passage from my favorite writer William Hazlitt’s essay “On the Pleasure of Painting,” written, I think, in the early 1820s. The famous British critic is known most for his essays on Shakespeare and other literature, but his … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Books and Culture
Tagged architecture, Art History, Expressionism, Painting, William Hazlitt
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Hyperphotography of Jean-Francois Rauzier
Consider this an ad, gratefully posted, for the photographic work of Jean-Francois Rauzier, who once gave me permission to use his “Versailles” (above) with a column. Here is some of his wonderful “hyperphotography,” a sort of detailed architecture montage of … Continue reading
A kiss is just a kiss … right?
One of the late Cy Twombly’s untitled paintings, a canvas entirely white, was kissed by French artist Sam Rindy, 30, leaving on the work the red imprint of her lips – the only arguably artistic thing about the painting, which … Continue reading
