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Bodies in Space: Leah Yerpe's Very Large Drawings

Daniel Maidman | Posted 11.17.2012 | Arts
Read More: Dacia Gallery, Academic Painting, Robert Longo, Post-Modernism, Leah Yerpe, John Singer Sargent, Neo-Classicism, Jean-August-Dominique Ingres, Claude Monet, Jacques-Louis David, Arts News
Daniel Maidman

I've been a fan of Yerpe's extremely cool -- one might say icily cool -- work since I first saw it in 2009. For me, a lot of what makes art good is the degree of interesting thinking I have in response to viewing it.

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Art Runs in the Family

MutualArt | Posted 09.25.2012 | Arts
Read More: Marcel Duchamp, Diego Rivera, Yves Klein, Edward Hopper, Paul Gauguin, John Constable, Gustav Klimt, Jacques-Louis David, Arts News
MutualArt

Artistic genes ran in the family of many iconic artists, although we hardly speak of the artwork of the lesser-known relatives who often provided great influence.

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WATCH: Floating Opera

Posted 12.06.2011 | Arts
Read More: Austria, 'André Chénier', Floating Opera, Opera, Death of Marat, Jean-Paul Marat, Set Design, UK Arts, French Revolution, Jacques-Louis David, Arts News

Powdered wig-wearing patriots bounce on an inflatable mountaintop. Mermaids twirl while suspended in thin air. A battle breaks out on top of a giant, ...

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The French Revolution As You've Never Seen It -- As a Graphic Novel

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 06.04.2011 | Books
Read More: Simon Schama, Bernar Yslaire, Jean-Claude Carrière, Robespierre, French Revolution, Jacques-Louis David, Books News
Jesse Kornbluth

The Sky Over the Louvre, by esteemed cartoonist Bernar Yslaire, demonstrates understanding -- even mastery -- of a fascinating historical episode, and is a powerful aesthetic experience.

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Using Google Art To Explore Famous, Unfinished Paintings

James Elkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Parmigianino, Willem De Kooning, Art, Modernism, Art History, Art Criticism, Richard Dadd, Contemporary Art, Art Theory, Paul Cezanne, Painting, Renaissance Art, Jacques-Louis David, Chris Ofili, Google Art Project, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tate Britain, Kunstmuseum Basel, Uffizi-Gallery, Arts News
James Elkins

I have been writing about looking slowly, taking the time to see the visual world. My first column was about a Mondrian painting, and it included some...

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