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Showing posts with label cézanne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cézanne. Show all posts
5 Sept 2024

Heathen, Hedonistic, and Horny: Notes on Maggie Nelson's Bluets (2009) - Part 2: Propositions 121-240

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Joan Mitchell: Les Bluets (1973)  Oil on canvas (281 x 580 cm) [f]     NB: part one of this post (reflecting on selected propositions from ...
2 Feb 2024

On the Ball with D. H. Lawrence

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D. H. Lawrence: Spring (c. January 1929) watercolour (30 x 22.5 cm)     I.    John Worthen's short piece in the latest Journal of D. H....
13 Jan 2024

Reflections on Vita Contemplativa by Byung-Chul Han (Part Two)

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Cover of the original German edition (Ullstein Verlag, 2022) [a]     I.   One of the key paragraphs in the opening chapter of Vita Contempla...
4 Apr 2017

Cut it Out - Reflections on Blue Nudes and Racial Fetishism in the Work of Henri Matisse

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Henri Matisse: Nu bleu IV (1952) The Blue Nudes are a series of painted female figure cut-outs stuck to paper and then mounted ...
1 Apr 2017

Blue is the Colour ... Notes on Rilke's Blue Delirium

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Blue is the colour found between violet and green on the visible spectrum of light as perceived by human eyes. It comes in many differe...
3 Feb 2017

Rilke: Letters on Cézanne (Some Brief Remarks)

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Rilke is one of those poets I should probably appreciate more than I do. But, if I'm honest, I find the lyrical intensity and t...
16 Jan 2017

On the Art of the Persimmon

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Stephen Alexander: Lip Service (2017) The relationship between fruit and art is long and intimate; in paint and poetry - still lif...
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10 Apr 2015

Seeing with the Eyes of Angels (In Praise of Cubism)

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Pablo Picasso: Girl with a Mandolin (1910) Museum of Modern Art, New York For Lawrence, one of the most admirable things about C...