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    The Art of Utamaro

    February 3, 2021 / 0 Comments

    The text below is the excerpt from the book Utamaro (ASIN: B016XN18LC), written by Edmond de Goncourt, published by Parkstone International. To leaf through albums of Japanese prints is truly to experience a new awakening, during which one is struck in particular by the splendour of Utamaro. His sumptuous plates seize the imagination through his love of women, whom he wraps so voluptuously in grand Japanese fabrics, in folds, contours, cascades and colours so finely chosen that the heart grows faint looking at them, imagining what exquisite thrills they represented for the artist. For women’s clothing reveals a nation’s concept of love, and this love itself is but a form of lofty thought crystallised…

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    June 17, 2025

    Shelley’s Art Musing – “Cover up that bosom, which I can’t endure to look on”. (Tartuffe, Molière)

    December 28, 2017
    The Toilet of Venus (The Rokeby Venus)

    The love that Angels create in our hearts

    April 5, 2022
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    Shunga: Traditional Japanese Pornography

    August 12, 2015 / 2 Comments

    Manga? Yes Anime? Yes Shunga? Ummmm… That’s one that not many people have heard of. Literally translated as “picture of spring”, it is an age-old Japanese erotic art form usually printed on woodblock. A sub genre of ukiyo-e, Shunga (春画) reached its pinnacle in the Edo Period from 1603 to 1867 and survived repeated government attempts at suppression. However, before they were shunned their widespread use and availability was commonplace and endeavoured to depict everyday life in the Edo. Carried around as lucky charms by Samurais and merchants as well as being offered to newly-wed’s as a type of sex education; shunga was accepted and used by everyone, regardless of…

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    Gustave Caillebotte – A patron among the Impressionists

    August 24, 2020
    Vessantara Jataka, Pavilion scene in the Palace of Prince Vessantara and his wife Princess Madri, 5th-6th century C.E.

    Unity in diversity makes Indian culture unique

    January 3, 2023
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    Shelley’s Scandal of the Month – The Curse of the Cleaner

    November 6, 2018
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    Allein aus Freude am Sehen

    March 21, 2013 / 0 Comments

    Allein aus Freude am Sehen und ohne Hoffnung, seine Eindrücke und Erlebnisse mitteilen zu dürfen, würde niemand über das Meer fahren (Blaise Pascal) Seien Sie mal ehrlich: Würden Sie ohne Kamera in den Urlaub fahren? Was wäre heute schon ein Urlaub ohne Urlaubsfotos? Ein Reisebericht ohne Anschauungsmaterial? Die im Titel zitierte Äußerung des französischen Mathematikers und Erfinder des Pascalschen Dreiecks, Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), gilt demnach heute so wie damals. Dennoch gibt es einen entscheidenden Unterschied: „Früher zeichnete man auf Reisen, um sich erinnern zu können, wo man war. Heute filmt man auf Reisen, um zu erfahren, wo man gewesen ist.“ Das jedenfalls stellte Albert Camus (1913-1960), einer der bekanntesten und…

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    Rivalen unter sich

    March 7, 2014
    Turner-Clare Hall and King’s College Chapel

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    July 9, 2018

    Exibição: Gauguin

    October 31, 2017
  • Art Exhibition,  Français

    Van Gogh – délit de copie japonaise

    January 29, 2013 / 0 Comments

    Non Van Gogh n’est jamais allée au Japon, même si les plaisirs asiatiques (opium et autres geishas), auraient certainement convenu à sa nature artistique. On connaît bien sûr les épisodes scandaleux de sa vie : sa mélancolie/folie, son oreille coupée, son alcoolisme, son errance à la recherche d’un havre de paix. On sait moins spontanément qu’il a trouvé une source d’inspiration formidable dans les estampes japonaises qui arrivent en Europe avec les expositions internationales. Après les impressionnistes, le japonisme a engendré une seconde mini-révolution artistique en France. Quelle ironie : l’Asie est aujourd’hui accusée de plagiats, de copies et de produire de nombreux faux. À l’époque au contraire ce sont les Européens…

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    La Noche Me Confunde

    August 12, 2013

    Pre-Raphaelites: The Revolutionary Brotherhood: Return to the Middle Age

    February 26, 2018

    Sunny Side Up

    February 20, 2014
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