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Once 1 courageously say, and a thousand safely repeat, that “Merde d’Artist” is gold, merde d’artist is gold! Until then, merde d’artist is merde.

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A Rhetoric on Art

© Author of the blog, Title – On the border of Art and Art history, 11.12.22 Dear Reader, Kindly remove the burden of correctness, rationale and logic at the start of this piece. The discussion here is a purely personal opinion and nothing more or nothing less. For the past year, the theories of literary criticism, evaluation in art history and the nature of aesthetics has recurred in my…

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Caspar David Friedrich

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TIZIANA PERS Art_History/ Municeddhe: le dormienti Tiziana Pers si pone il problema se sia possibile assegnare un valore economico a un essere vivente e, analogamente, ad un’opera d’arte.

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Interior Passage in the Colosseum (1825) - by François Diday.

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A few still lifes in art history

I start this very sketchy selection of still-life paintings by showing the great blue color shades which Cézanne used along with its light effects on the items shown on painting. A simply but centrally focused blue vase catches our attention (what about those apples?)

Paul Cézanne Le vase bleu, c.1889, oil on canvas, 61,2 x. 50,0 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris 

Realism in Caravaggio’s basket of fruit work was against what most classical art pundits thought: any nature object should be idealized, therefore the “mission” of the artist was to re-focus or make perfect that what was seen otherwise.

Caravaggio, Basket of Fruit, c.1598-1601. Oil on canvas, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. 

We are in the presence of Memling and his painting which, by the way, was one of the first independent still lifes known in art. Rife with religious symbolism this maiolica jug is an astounding example of one of Delft’s most vigorous businesses: Faience earthenware craftsmanship.

Hans Memling’s Flowers in a Jug, c 1485. Oil on panel. 29.2 x 22.5 cm. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

And in no. 4, again, Cézanne and his Dahlias dans un grand vase de Delft (c.1873.) 73 x 54 cm, Musée d’Orsay, we can also admire a Delft pottery vase, which were fashionable in the Netherlands.

Renoir’s Still Life with Flowers and Fruit (c.1889) (99,7 x 140,3 cm) Philadelphia Museum of Art is a wonderful instance of his richness and exuberance of color.

Willen Kalf’s Still Life with Porcelain Jug. 1653 Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Still lifes (glasses, silver cups, porcelain, vases, jugs, cutlery…) as seen something characteristic of the Netherlands’ golden seventeenth century.

Henri Matisse’s Vase of Sunflowers, c.1899. Oil on canvas, 46 x 38 cm. Hermitage, Russia. Sunflowers motif, most likely Van Gogh’s influence. 

Finally, to round off this selection I have chosen Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder’s Bouquet in an Arched Window, 1620. Oil on wood, Mauritshuis, The Hague. A painter known for his taste for displaying colorful flower vases in preparatory watercolors.

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Utagawa Yoshitora’s 1866 prints, “Igirisukoku Rondon no zu,” form a triptych view of London. Together, the three images depict a street scene near the River Thames, complete with thronging English pedestrians, two sailing ships, horses, oxen, and carriages. - This is an awesome woodblock print with a fascinating story. Also, a really great Ukiyo-e search: http://ukiyo-e.org/

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Tiziana Pers. Art_History/ Donnalucata Tiziana Pers ha concentrato la sua ricerca sui temi del biocentrismo e dei parallelismi tra specismo, razzismo, colonialismo e sessismo con occhio particolare rivolto agli animali.

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Dürer and Insbruck Castle

Courtyard of Innsbruck Castle to the south (and north!) c. 1495. Watercolour on paper, 335 x 267 mm. Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna. Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528 Nürnberg) A magnificent watercolour depicting a great castle courtyard in the Tyrol which takes us back to the time of the filming set of Nosferatu…! Great medieval architectural landscape which, supposedly, was created by the German painter during his first journey to Venice. A really hot Friday afternoon in Malaga...! Jesús Lorenzo Vieites

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How Art Works? by Tymek Borowski and Pawel Sysiak. I really recommend you take twelve minutes to watch this to the end. Art desperately needs a resurgence of 'coarse', earnest artists. Forty years of evolution of the least common denominators between conceptualism, the postmodernist outlook of history, the liberal markets and the academic tradition led to a vicious cycle of non-stop bullshitting in the art world, which fed both the speculators and the dandies who brought about the twin curses of 'creative industries' and hipsterism - which in turn eventually led to this guy. So let's ‎"try to communicate as simply and directly as possible, even if it sounds stupid."

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Dance at Bougival

Once again, and it getting sort of customary, I bring to your attention a work by an Impressionist master who, obviously has nothing to do with the Old Masters series (unless if we consider his extensive travelling during the 80s that helped him to move from Impressionist towards a type of Renaissance styled naturalism focussed on his sketches) in my Instagram account; anyway, I chose it to…

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Dürer’s Praying Hands

Dürer's Praying Hands (Betende Hände) for a Sunday morning. Watercolour and gouache on green paper. Albertina, Graphic and Art's Collection. Vienna. Art for art's sake Jesús Lorenzo Vieites #albrecht_dürer #durero #dürer #northern_renaissance #german_renaissance #vienna #watercolour #kunstgeschichte #arthistory

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Adorazione del Bambino di Camaldoli

Adorazione del Bambino, c. 1463 (detail of Holy Child only). Tempera on wood, 140 x 130 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florencia. Filippo Lippi (Florence, c.1406 - Spoleto 1469)

Though at times a really naughty boy of the Carmelite Order, Fra Filippo Lippi executed some of Italy’s best Renaissance works like the one I am briefly commenting, Adoration of the Child with Saints.

Perhaps thanks to his Lucrezia’s influence we might be grateful to have had his works. After the death of the generation of Masaccio, Lippi and other peers (notably, Fra Angelico, Veneziano and della Robbia) were the new mirror on to which the Italian arts could reflect.

Though I have decided to upload only the Child detail I encourage you to pursuit further and to look at the whole picture yourself. This marvellous work was commissioned by Lucrezia Tornabuoni, Piero de’ Medici’s wife, for the hermit monastery of the Camaldoli.

Baby Jesus lies at the feet of His Mother on a flower meadow in a supposedly hilly landscape behind.

A bit of peacefulness and serene contemplation of a great depiction of the Holy Child in these disturbing times.

Jesús Lorenzo Vieites

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Zingarella, c.1504.  Tempera on wood, 24 x 19 cm. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Boccaccio Boccaccino (Ferrara, c.1467-Cremona, 1525). Boccaccio Boccaccino is among the Cremonese what are the Ghirlandaio, the Mantegna, the Vannucci, France in their schools; the best modern among the ancients, and the best ancient among modern ... " (Lanzi, 1795) Boccaccio, considered one of the most prominent exponents of classicism in the Po Valley, he would travel in the most important centers of the area, reaching, among others, Genoa, Milan, Cremona, Ferrara and Venice, all places in which he came into contact with different languages that contribute to the formation of a peculiar pictorial way, characterized by the soft rendering of the faces and the very special way of creating the eyes of the characters, diaphanous and luminous like precious stones, which make his paintings immediately identifiable. In Cremona he would spend the greatest part of his productive time –especially from 1506. Also a painter of frescoes in which his Venetian and Ferrarese influences are to be seen. For his part, his own influence was to be felt in the works of contemporary painters such as G. Campi, A. Melloni, T. Aleni or G.F. Bembo. Great use of colour, especially noticeable in the draperies in his works (which are also based on good quality and luxuriant textiles), simple but straightforward compositions (landscapes blended with the main topic of the works) and harmony. He established a workshop in Cremona. The Zingarella painting is rich in colour and the beauty of the girl’s eyes which are facing the viewer without fear and in a loving and careless manner with a terribly deep sweetness in her expression –her round moist eyes!– while showing a luminous, oval face tightened by a plain but highly decorative scarf (I would say!). No doubt, I would reckon this to be one of Boccaccino’s most astounding and vivid works. Jesús Lorenzo Vieites #boccaccioboccaccino #rinascimento #renaissance #storiadellarte #kunstgeschichte #historyofart #arthistory #art_history #oldmasters #portraiture #art_lovers #museum_lovers #uffizi #florence #firenza #pitturaitaliana #galleriadegliuffizi #masterwork https://www.instagram.com/p/CAhTBI-IJQI/?igshid=wtsu0o1jdhmo