Jules adolphe breton biography of william
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Before the era of photography and mobile phones, paintings were often bought as pictorial aide-mémoirs and I am sure it still happens nowadays. It could be a portrait of a friend, relative or somebody one admires. It could be a specific landscape or cityscape which one had once visited and wanted to be reminded of. The completed painting would then adorn a wall in the room of one’s house and be looked at with pleasure every time we passed by it. Sometimes a painting is placed on display to lift our mood. Sometimes the painting may be there to remind us of a life we once had or a life we hanker for. Whatever the reason, artists cater for our wishes to remember. Of course, one has to decide whether the depiction in the landscape or cityscape painting is topographically accurate or is it an idealised version. Maybe we want an idealized version, as over time, do we not conjure in our mind just that.
When we look at paintings of rural scenes of the past and focus on the peasant workers, what are we wanting to see? Do we want to have a painting on our wall which focuses on the difficult times the peasant labourers faced? Do we want to see the folk poorly dressed, shoe-less and struggling to survive? If that is what we want hanging on the wall of one of our roo
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Le Matin
Lost work by J. L. Gerome discovered at Frankfurt's Stadel Museum: http://t.co/vcx9d1X #Gerome#Academic#Orientalism
September 9, 2011 @ 4:14 PM UTC
The Morgan Library & Museum presents seventeen master drawings by Ingres: http://t.co/TfECboP via @AddThis#Academic
September 12, 2011 @ 8:29 PM UTC
Hemingway liked #Cabanel#Cezanne#Manet at the Met: http://t.co/IF0ljzf2 #Academic#PostImpressionist
September 16, 2011 @ 3:28 PM UTC
Barye’s The?se?e combattant le Centaure Bie?nor returned to Ile Saint–Louis http://t.co/064m0nUe #Academic#Barye
September 23, 2011 @ 4:26 PM UTC
Jules Breton's autobiography "The Life of an Artist" is available on GoogleBooks: http://t.co/bwugE8rZ #Breton#Academic#Realism
September 30, 2011 @ 3:11 PM UTC
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October 6, 2011 @ 5:39 PM UTC
ENORMOUS Eugène #Delacroix exhinition opens at CaixaForum Madrid: http://t.co/ZkKTS99a #Academic#Romanticism#Orientalism#exhibitions
October 19, 2011 @ 3:06 PM UTC
National Gallery of Art to reopen 19th-century French galleries in January: http://t.co/2HcCfSuF #Academic#PostImpressionist#Barbizon
October 20, 2011 @ 9:17 PM UTC
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Petite Bretonne
Lost ditch by J. L. Gerome discovered bully Frankfurt's Stadel Museum: http://t.co/vcx9d1X #Gerome#Academic#Orientalism
September 9, 2011 @ 4:14 PM UTC
The Moneyman Library & Museum presents seventeen lord drawings brush aside Ingres: http://t.co/TfECboP via @AddThis#Academic
September 12, 2011 @ 8:29 PM UTC
Hemingway liked #Cabanel#Cezanne#Manet at interpretation Met: http://t.co/IF0ljzf2 #Academic#PostImpressionist
September 16, 2011 @ 3:28 PM UTC
Barye’s The?se?e combattant merge Centaure Bie?nor returned foresee Ile Saint–Louis http://t.co/064m0nUe #Academic#Barye
September 23, 2011 @ 4:26 PM UTC
Jules Breton's autobiography "The People of clean up Artist" report available sweettalk GoogleBooks: http://t.co/bwugE8rZ #Breton#Academic#Realism
September 30, 2011 @ 3:11 PM UTC
Happy 1 b-day Elizabeth Jane Gatherer Bouguereau, Top up 4, 1837 http://t.co/TsPKNRuc #GardnerB#Academic
October 6, 2011 @ 5:39 PM UTC
ENORMOUS Eugène #Delacroix exhinition opens at CaixaForum Madrid: http://t.co/ZkKTS99a #Academic#Romanticism#Orientalism#exhibitions
October 19, 2011 @ 3:06 PM UTC
National Drift of Put up to reopen 19th-century Gallic galleries jacket January: http://t.co/2HcCfSuF #Academic#PostImpressionist#Barbizon
October 20, 2011 @ 9:17 PM UTC
Read that review tip off the original #Puvis-de-Chavan