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Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Cezanne's "Still Life with a Basket of Apples"
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Cheetah with Two Indian Attendants" by George Stubbs
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Zaz posted:
If I was going to pick a painting from Sir George Stubbs, who specialized in animals, this wouldn't be it.
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Zaz
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I like it. 
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Really? Can you explain why
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Zaz
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No; I don't really know why. Of course, I like horse racing. And betting.
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"An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump" by Joseph Wright of Derby
Generally considered a painter of the second rank, Wright was famous for genre paintings. Here a family watches an intinerent lecturer, who has brought his apparatus to their home. He has pumped all the air from the container, nearly killing the bird; he holds the stopcock, which when released, may revive the bird. The expressions of the audience, seen by candlelight, are varied, as are their reactions.
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Next: "The Death of General Wolfe" (1770) National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, by Benjamin West.
Since I am a Canadian, this portrait is ever present in the local ether. It shows General Wolfe dying at his point of victory; he stormed the citadel of Quebec, and captured it for the British (permanently as it turned out). According to the book, it is unusual for the time; usually pictures of this type had Greek or Roman allusions, and weren't in modern dress. West (who was an American) refused the usual style. But this isn't true to life; Wolfe (only 32 when he died) expired in a hollow away from the battlefield, surrounded by ordinary soldiers, not his seconds in command.
The picture was a hit, and both the King and the Prince of Wales requested copies. The original was presented to the Canadian government in 1918 by the family of the Duke of Westminster.
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Wow, both of those last two paintings are really interesting. Composition, color, emotion content, all incredible! The body language in the General's Death is exquisitely rendered.
The first one does have a little bit of Norman Rockwell to it though, that seems inappropriate to the situation.
If they were shots from movies, we could discuss their "mise en scene", 
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I remember that painting well from the history textbooks we had in grammar school.
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West was American, so he put an American ranger (the man in green at the left) in the picture, though they weren't present on the Plains of Abraham.
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Just seeing the title, not to mention the picture, gave me wild "acid" flashback to 4th or 5ht grade.
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Next: "The Death of Marat" by Jacques-Louis David
1793, oil on canvas, Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels.
Marat is shown dead just after his assassination by Charlotte Corday--the weapon, a kitchen knife lies on the ground. Marat was a radical extremist during the French revolution; his assassin was a member of the moderate, or Girondin, group. Corday was apparently very beautiful, and since David was friend of Marat's, he doesn't want distractions from his hagiography. So she's omitted completely. (She was guillotined 4 days later after a brief trial). Marat spent most of his time in the bath because of a skin condition.
Several of David's propaganda portraits of this type did not survive the royalist restoration, but this one did, because he kept it in his family (he was in exile in Brussels, and it passed to a grandson). It's a marvellous example of his style.
He also penned (he was in the crowd) the notorious sketch of Marie Antoniette on the way to her execution.
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I've always really liked the way David used light and shadow in his portrait of Marat. Having nothing but darkness behind his lifeless body really makes him stand out.
His sketch of Marie Antoinette is, I think, quite a treasure. Her appearance to him at the end of her life is rather poignant and telling of how far she fell.
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Another version of the same scene by another artist:
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That's fantastic. It's like we just got to go into the scene and could turn around to see the assasin.
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The artist isn't as good as David, but it is rather interesting.
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