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American Graffiti
As the graffiti movement progressed it became more elaborate and ubiquitous, genuine artists emerged whose unique creativity captured the attention of the world.
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Ah, Valentine’s day, the day of love… (Part 3)
Read Part 1 here. Read Part 2 here. One of their false beliefs connected with this festival was that the names of girls who had reached marriageable age would be written on small rolls of paper and placed in a dish on a table. Then the young men who wanted to get married would be called, and each of them would pick a piece of paper. He would put himself at the service of the girl whose name he had drawn for one year so that they could find out about one another. Then they would get married, or they would repeat the same process again on the day of…
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Ah, Valentine’s day, the day of love… (Part 2)
–> Read Part 1 here. … Saint Valentine’s Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine is celebrated annually on February 14. The Festival of Love was one of the festivals of the pagan Romans when paganism was the prevalent religion of the Romans more than seventeen centuries ago. In the pagan Roman concept, it was an expression of “spiritual love”. There were myths associated with this pagan festival of the Romans, which persisted with their Christian heirs. Among the most famous of these myths was the Roman belief that Romulus, the founder of Rome, was suckled one day by a she-wolf, which gave him strength and wisdom. The Romans used…
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Ah, Valentine’s day, the day of love… (Part 1)
The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Valentine’s Day— the name of the holiday conjures up childhood images of heart-shaped greeting cards, chubby cupids, and giggly public-school romancing. Yet this holiday, like most others, has been commercially exploited. Nowadays all true sentimentalists, from hard-core prodigals to casual window shoppers, must go to great lengths to avoid the thousands of varieties of mass-produced Valentine’s cards, candles and assorted knick-knacks which are displayed along the routes of their once-dreamy rambles. Romantic purists will undoubtedly appreciate the non-commercial origins of “lover’s day”, for though It Is now just…
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Shelley’s Art Scandal – Anti-Semitic or Misguided?
Mear One created a work of art on the streets of London which caused controversy at the time, and then six years after it was removed caused more controversy. Find out what happened and why this piece is used to create a political scandal.
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Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was one of the most significant American artists and a central figure in the movement known as Pop art.
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Whistler et la Nature
Whistler and Nature – Maître victorien, James McNeill Whistler. Né en Amérique, mais vivant au Royaume-Uni pendant la plus grande partie de sa vie, il était connu comme un artiste doté d’une personnalité audacieuse et d’une attitude révolutionnaire à l’égard du monde naturel. Whistler surgit, tel un météore, à un moment crucial de l’histoire de l’art, et il joue un rôle de précurseur. Ce n’est pas un hasard si le peintre s’installe à Londres. C’est en effet en Europe que se livrent les plus belles batailles artistiques et esthétiques, et l’artiste est d’un tempérament pour le moins combatif : il a, comme les Impressionnistes et à leurs côtés, la volonté…
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Whistler & Nature
Whistler & Nature casts a new light on the work of the great late-Victorian master, James McNeill Whistler. Born in America, but living in the UK for most of his life, he was known as an artist with a bold personality and a revolutionary attitude towards the natural world. Whistler suddenly shot to fame like a meteor at a crucial moment in the history of art, a field in which he was a pioneer. It was not by chance that the painter settled in London. Europe was, at the time, the greatest artistic and aesthetic battleground and this artist had a suitably combative temperament. Like the Impressionists, with whom he sided,…
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Bonnard – La couleur de la mémoire
En octobre 1947, le musée de l’Orangerie à Paris organisa une grande exposition posthume des œuvres de Bonnard. À la fin de cette même année parut un numéro de l’influente revue Cahiers d’Art. Dans son article, figurant en première page, ≪ Pierre Bonnard un grand peintre? ≫, l’éditeur des Cahiers, Christian Zervos se faisait l’écho de l’exposition. Tout d’abord, Zervos en saluait l’importance dans la mesure où auparavant seules de rares expositions de peu d’envergure permettaient de juger de l’œuvre de Bonnard. Mais, poursuivait Zervos, celle-ci l’avait déçu, car les mérites de l’artiste ne nécessitaient pas pareille exposition : ≪ …Bonnard, ne l’oublions pas, a vécu ses premières années de travail sous le beau rayon…
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Shelley’s Art Musings – There is more to Whistler than his Mother…
I am sure that the first thing anyone thinks of when they hear the name James Abbott McNeill Whistler is the dower painting of his Mother. The muted pallet and stern setting of the piece along with the initial reaction to its original name made this a sure-fire masterpiece, but ask most people to name another piece by Whistler and they probably can’t. Whistler was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1834 to Anna and George Whistler. He lived his first 3 years in a house which has now become “Whistler’s House Museum of Art”, dedicated to his artwork. In 1837 they moved to Stonington, Connecticut so that his father could…
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