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    Gustave Caillebotte, mécène bourgeois impressionniste

    November 13, 2012 / 0 Comments

    Caillebotte est mort jeune, à 46 ans, et n’est pas particulièrement connu du grand public bien qu’il ait fait partie des impressionnistes. Issu d’une famille bourgeoise parisienne, il n’a jamais eu à se soucier des lendemains, se tenait loin de Montmartre et des cocottes parisiennes et ne peignait pas pour vivre mais pour son plaisir personnel. Fasciné par la vie citadine, par la modernité qui envahit Paris, ses toiles sont simples, sans artifices et sans cette sensation d’esprit tourmenté qu’on rencontre chez Van Gogh par exemple. Peut-être sont-elles trop simples. Qui serait réellement intéressé aujourd’hui par des vues de maisons campagnardes bourgeoises entourées de fleurs ou de couples se promenant…

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    Let’s Be Alone Together

    October 9, 2012 / 0 Comments

    You know what one of my favourite movies of all time is? Closer. It’s dark, it’s dirty, it’s intimate, it’s lonely, it’s sad, it’s beautiful, it’s true. “Anna’s” photography exhibit is one I would have visited again and again – you know, if it had been real – especially the image of “Alice”. What other artist makes me feel all of the same emotions? The Impressionist/Realist, Gustave Caillebotte. Caillebotte’s On the Pont de l’Europe (below), to me anyway, represents a man that has lost something near to him, whether he threw it away or it crumbled into a pile of rubble, the point is that he stands alone on this…

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