Robert S. Duncanson. Blue Hole, Little Miami River. Oil on canvas, 1851. Cincinnati Art Museum.
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Robert S. Duncanson: Blue Hole, Little Miami River
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July 18, 2010 at 8:29pm
by Mark Willis
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Flaneur’s Gallery: Music in the Tuileries
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May 9, 2010 at 10:47am
by Mark Willis
Édouard Manet. Music in the Tuileries. Oil on canvas, 1862. National Gallery, London [Source: Wikipedia] I believe the fashionable Flaneur in top hat at the left edge of Manet’s painting is the poet Charles Baudelaire.
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Flaneur’s Gallery: Knit Graffiti by the Jafagirls
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April 18, 2010 at 5:00am
by Mark Willis
The Jafagirls gave me a guided walking tour of their textile art installations. Some of it is in this video montage, and some of it I had seen (and touched) before, but I had no sense of the scope of their project until they took me around the block, literally. I’ll have more to say about it. For now, I am thrilled that I don’t have to pine for street art in Paris (à la Miss Tic and the Ethics of Love). I can stroll anytime to the end of the street where I live. It’s a perfect place for flânerie. Thanks, Corine and Nancy!
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Flaneur’s Gallery: Renoir in the 20th Century
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February 22, 2010 at 7:54pm
by Mark Willis
Gabrielle Renard was more than the Renoir family’s nanny. She was the painter’s model and muse late in life as he turned away from the Impressionist style he had helped to create. Renoir painted Gabrielle many times. Some of the portraits, including Gabrielle With A Rose, are gathered in Renoir in the 20th Century, now on exhibit at the Los Angles County Museum of Art.
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Goya’s Iconography of Provocation & Fear
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September 27, 2009 at 9:00am
by Mark Willis
Francisco Goya. The Third of May 1808. Oil on canvas, 1814. Museo del Prado, Madrid. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]
Babu Kuriakose left a comment recently noting congruencies in Goya’s famous painting and Spartan Girls Provoking Boys by Edgar Degas. Babu has a discerning eye, and his website documents many resonances in contemporary visual rhetoric. His comment led [...]
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Flaneur’s Paradise: Montreal’s Rue Prince Arthur
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July 10, 2009 at 10:24pm
by Mark Willis
In Montreal, for my birthday, we took a stroll after dinner through the flaneur’s paradise on Rue Prince Arthur, a pedestrian mall between Avenue Laval and Boulevard Saint-Laurent. Ms. Modigliani agreed to sit for her portrait by street artist Marie-claude Journault. Earlier in the evening, at Maestro S.V.P., Ms. M sat in the chair [...]
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Bonne fête Papa: A Flaneur’s Gallery
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June 21, 2009 at 12:05am
by Mark Willis
Paul Cézanne. The Artist’s Father, Reading “L’Événement”. 1866. Oil on canvas. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
When I stood before this painting last month at the NGA, it happened to be the day that would have been my father’s 88th birthday. It reminded me of his devotion to reading newspapers, his pride when I [...]
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Café Mouffe: Tarace Boulba
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June 5, 2009 at 6:00pm
by Mark Willis
No, this isn’t the Rebirth Brass Band. It isn’t New Orleans, either, , but it could be. You can go ahead and second-line. Don’t sit down.
This brass band is Tarace Boulba from Paris. Their 2006 and 2008 concert clips prove that neither side of the pond has a monopoly when it comes to funk. According [...]
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Flaneur’s Gallery: Van Gogh’s Roses
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May 24, 2009 at 6:00am
by Mark Willis
Vincent van Gogh. Roses. 1890. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Roses was painted shortly before Van Gogh’s release from the asylum at St.-Rémy. He felt he was coming to terms with his illness—and himself. In this healing process, painting was all-important. In those final three weeks, he wrote Theo, he “worked as in a frenzy. [...]
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Doodling With Mary Cassatt On Her Birthday
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May 22, 2009 at 6:23am
by Mark Willis
Google is celebrating the birth of Mary Cassatt today with a Cassatt-inspired logo (left) on its main search page. Cassatt was born on May 22, 1844 in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. She died near Paris on June 14, 1926. The Google Doodle is based on Cassatt’s painting, The Child’s Bath (below), now in the collection of [...]
![gustave_caillebotte_paris_street_rainy_day Gustave Caillebotte. Paris Street, Rainy Day (La Place de l’Europe, temps de pluie). 1877. Oil on canvas. Art Institute of Chicago. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]](http://blindflaneur.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/gustave_caillebotte_paris_street_rainy_day_1877_wiki.jpg)
"Brendan, this is what the world looks like all the time to me. Just a little fog. It’s a fine day for boating on the Great Lakes.” Without missing a stroke he turned to dart a skeptical glance at me. Brendan the Navigator. When we named him I didn’t tell his mother everything the legendary Irish name implied. But I imagined him taking on the role of navigator for me. Growing up with Coastal Survey charts and tales of Great Lakes shipwrecks, he came to know Superior as another home. He never doubted the wisdom of canoeing there with a father who was half blind. ![ada_signing_072690_ucp_2 President George H.W. Bush signs into law the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) on July 26, 1990 as Justin Dart looks on. [Source: ucp.org]](http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ada_signing_072690_ucp_2.jpg)
![shepard_fairey_hope_2008 Shepard Fairey’s “Barack Obama/Hope” image went viral during the 2008 election. Then controversy about the image’s source transformed it into the poster child for fair use in the public debate over copyright and free culture. Now FULAB takes “Hope” as its icon [Image source: Wikipedia]](http://fairuselab.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/shepard_fairey_hope_2008.jpg)

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