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Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Cezanne's "Still Life with a Basket of Apples"
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JohnWesleyDowney
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Goya's "The Third of May"
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Man, that Judith painting is a nasty piece of work. I wonder what Goya was like around the house!
The Royal family all seem to be looking in different directions.
The painting with the Manuel and the staff, wow, long before Freud.
If that's not a statement, I don't know what is.
The guy behind him seems to be looking directly at it.
I suppose it could have been worse. He could have put the SWORD between his legs instead!
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Zaz
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4/3 8:14pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Goya's "The Third of May"
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This is Goya's take on Godoy's wife.
She was a young member of the royal family who was forced to marry Godoy to shore up his position. He was much older and treated her badly (to say the least of it). Goya painted her with a rare compassion (she was pregnant at the time). He *still* couldn't resist an editorial comment--she is surrounded by darkness.
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Hammurabi
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I don't think Goya made a single painting without some sort of editorial comment. Even his propaganda pieces were often pretty ironic.
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Zaz
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4/21 9:22pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Goya's "The Third of May"
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"In the 1810s, Goya created a set of aquatint prints titled The Disasters of War (Los desastres de la guerra) which depict scenes from the Peninsular War. The scenes are singularly disturbing, sometimes macabre in their depiction of battlefield horror, and represent an outraged conscience in the face of death and destruction. The prints were not published until 1863, 35 years after Goya's death."
Examples:
The Disasters spare no one. Dead, mulitated bodies, French, Spanish.
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Hammurabi
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He really foreshadowed a lot of the despair we would eventually see over World War I. Like I said, Goya pretty much is the origin of Modernism.
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JohnWesleyDowney
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Those are some grim images indeed.
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Zaz
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There were some I couldn't post.
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Zaz
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5/4 8:27pm
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And now for something completely different:
"Portrait of Marie Marcoz, later Vicomtesse de Senonnes"
1814, oil on canvas, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Nantes
When Ingres painted this portrait, Marie Marcoz was having an affair with the Vicomte, but they would marry the next year. The portrait is a combination of criticism and idealization; the lady's bourgeois origins are hinted at (the over-ringed hand), as is her cocotte status...the cards in the mirror, and the lavish jewellery combined with a rather worn dress. The book claims it is so idealized as to be abstract; which is carrying it a bit far. The Vicomtesse died in 1828, and the picture fell on hard times; removed to an attic (the Vicomte married again) and then slashed with a knife. Rescued, it is now acknowledged as one of Ingres' best.
This was before his decline into painting sugary cookie-cutter nudes.
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Zaz
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Ingres' "Portrait of Marie Marcoz"
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J. M. W. Turner, "Dort or Dortrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed"
c. 1818, oil on canvas, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven
The picture shows the Dutch city of Dort; a boat is becalmed, and chandlers' boats are reprovisioning her.
Inspired by Cuyp's "The Maas at Dordrecht":
"Dort" is one of the two most famous Turners in America. The other is "Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead or Dying":
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Zaz
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6/2 9:55pm
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Turner's "The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed"
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Next: Caspar David Friedrich "Chalk Cliffs on Rugen"
c. 1818-19, oil on canvas, Museum Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur
This shows the famous chalk cliffs on the Baltic island of Rugen.
Not my favorite Friedrich:
Friedrich fell into obscurity after his death in 1840, and until recently, this picture was attributed to one of his students.
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Zaz
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: Caspar David Friedrich "The Chalk Cliffs at Rugen"
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Next: John Constable "The Lock"
1984, oil on canvas, Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid
"The Lock" is the fifth in the series of six great paintings of the River Stour Constable exhibited at the Royal Academy in successive years, except 1823, when he wasn't able to complete the work in time. The style is very Dutch in style.
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Zaz
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: John Constable "The Lock"
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Next: Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
"Ruins in the Roman Campagna, with the Claudian Aqueduct"
1826-8, oil on paper and canvas, National Gallery, London
A open air sketch that looks like Vermeer.
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Obi-Dawn Kenobi
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "Ruins in the Roman Campagna" by Corot
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I love the clouds in that one. They look very convincing. Don't know why, but I've always been fascinated with the colors of clouds, so this painting is nice to me. 
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Zaz
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Next: "The Death of Sardanapalus" by Eugene Delacroix
c. 1827-8, oil on canvas, Musee du Louvre, Paris
This is an illustration of a biblical story/poem by Byron: Sardanapalus is the last King of Nineveh. He reacts to the fall of his capital by having his guards and eunuchs slaughter his women, pages, horses and dogs, anything that has given his sensual pleasure must not outlast him. A fire has been started that will consume the bodies and art treasures.
The composition is a large red diagonal (the bed on which the King reclined.) One slave girl has hung herself rather than be stabbed by a slave, and a page boy has thrown himself on the fire.
This picture was much attacked by critics as tasteless. This isn't my complaint; it's the expression on the King's face, which is boredom. Delacroix often seems to have handsome expressionless protagonists in his paintings.
Not my favorite Delacroix. Here are some others:
Or this:
His most iconic painting is "Liberty Leading the People"
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Zaz
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RE: Folio Society's 100 Greatest Paintings: "The Death of Sardanapalus" by Delacroix
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Next: Frederic Edwin Church "The Heart of the Andes"
c. 1959, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
From the book: "When Church composed his epic South American landscape...he arranged the panorama so that the observer could witness all the climatic-botanical zones of the region in a single scene...Church, a deeply religious man, infused it with biblical connotations...placing a small brightly lit cross in the foreground, symbolizing salvation..."
Church derived his knowledge of the region from the writings of Alexander von Humboldt, the Prussian explorer.
Church's huge landscapes were famous. Here's Niagara Falls:
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