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  • Art,  Art Exhibition,  English

    Art: I know It When I See It

    July 26, 2013 / 0 Comments

    Last year, Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ reignited the old “What is art?” discussion. Serrano shocked the art world in 1987 with a photograph of a crucifix submerged in a jar of his urine. He again sparked controversy in September 2012 when Piss Christ was featured at the Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery in New York. The photograph not only shocked the religious communities who were offended by the desecration of a holy symbol, Serrano’s work also forced even the most open-minded to ask, “Is this art?” A quick Google search of the definition of art yields this: “The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual…

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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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