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Vincent Van Gogh and “Sacre Bleu”

Vincent Van Gogh. Self-Portrait (dedicated to Paul Gauguin). 1888. [Source: Wikipedia/NPR] Sacre Bleu | Defacing Fine Art Since 2011 Publisher’s website supporting the novel by Christopher Moore, with images of the paintings enlisted in the story… Art, Mystery And Posh … Continue reading






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Flaneur’s Gallery: Venus with a Mirror

When I first saw the painting at age 14, I learned how the experience of art could arouse me. Arouse is not a metaphor. Strolling through a museum with Ms. Modigliani is the most enchanting kind of foreplay on a rainy afternoon. At 14 I was amazed to think that Titian must have felt this way about Venus (and the artist’s model) when he painted her. He was approaching 70 then, and he kept the painting in his studio until the day he died. I have to smile now at callow youth and everything left to learn about the sensuality of old men.






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“The Jolly Flatboatmen in Port”

George Caleb Bingham. The Jolly Flatboatmen in Port. 1857. Oil on canvas. St. Louis Art Museum.






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Robert S. Duncanson: Blue Hole, Little Miami River

Robert S. Duncanson. Blue Hole, Little Miami River. Oil on canvas, 1851. Cincinnati Art Museum.






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Flaneur’s Gallery: Music in the Tuileries

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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