Tuesday, December 9, 2008

The Lord Of The Rings Bow And Arrows

Act II (The most Italian of the French)

at City Gallery this Sunday I had more of a surprise. A from 'Sara Dancing' which I mentioned in Act I and ending with the study of Francis Bacon , disassembled and reassembled in London as it stands here in Dublin (and then my mom says that our house is a mess!). In the City Gallery, where the rooms are small with colorful walls and uniforms for certain nationalities, I could see some of Edgar Degas, JB. Camille Corot, Eduard Manet, Berthe Morisot (remember?), Pierre Renoir Agusta, there are also some Italians perhaps little known in Italy. But there is one in particular, which of course I already knew, but that there is only a work (which I think is worth ten, not if only for the size that I prefer to work great!), and is Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931) with the Portrait of Lady Florence Phillips 1903 here right next to another. Now, this portrait of this elegant lady is part of a series of large portraits of elegant ladies who Boldini devoted himself in his French period from late 1990 until his death 800. As I do not remember who said (and I've already said that this name is my fault) about Dutch painting, 'beautiful, too bad to be small', and I fully agree, that both inquiries concerning art in the Netherlands particular, both general inquiries concerning the greatness of a work of art. Certainly it is not all that great paintings are beautiful, and it is not that all paintings must necessarily be as large as the Raft of the Medusa or Guernica, but if I speak my mind for me is a bit 'old saying' beauty half-height ', in this case' size '. I love all the pictures that you always have to move my neck and head to capture the most special, and then you get away, you sit down and appreciate it all. Like a puzzle. Returning Dutch art that I prefer almost everything, they are precisely the exception that the rule based on the concentration of stupefancente masterful technique. But getting to the point around the elegant ladies of Boldini. Obviously in art criticism is more and more studies are conflicting opinions, instead of finding unity. In effect, that is good in every critic says her critics, so I have mine, but sometimes it seems so strange to read the same works the same person completely opposite of that critical period. For example, in a monographic booklet on Boldini (A. Borgogelli), it enhances his last manner, with lines drawn around it to indicate movement of the movement, which seems to anticipate the lines of the futurists (assolutissimamente agree, I prefer perosonalmente widely here than in the period 70 years): 'Boldini as Bragaglia Willie prefuturista preferring instant challenges the aura psychodynamics surrounding his creatures'. In short, those signs that delineate the brush along the trajectories of the movements of the body or clothing. 'In his paintings, the gesture is not posing, it is motion, that transition, so that, while expressing what it is, it still contains what has been already expressed and what you become. Nobody has been able to sit people as Boldini '. (Cardona, the studio of Giovanni Boldini, 1937) Here come the negative reviews: it argues that excuses are technical personnel for an exercise. As I read in other texts that abbassanno tone precisely because of his having fallen too much in worldly and superficial in Paris and this new way did not amount to nothing more than variations on a theme, a different principle of repetition ... But at this point tell me the Impressionists but also appeared to be this 'different repetition'. Experienced the same places and subjects in different phases of the day and the seasons ... and probably a nest of straw at 5 pm in winter, with all due respect to Monsieur Monet, is much less expressive portrait of a woman at the same time in the same season ... But he was? It was lowered into the social life of Paris? Among other things he was not the only type Degas with its internal Okay say he had been French, but even better then! In an Italian Paris (the most Italian of art in Paris) who changes his earlier style (very Italian, as derived from macchiaioli) and 'invent' something new, so be it! Or not? I do not understand where the criticism is negative. But then how do you critcare one who has done portraits so fascinating? Personal mind I believe that in these portraits of women of elegance and Boldini found that the expression of female ntima ladies of the previous 400. A jump of nearly 500 years of walking and she looks great. All the beautiful people think something but do not reveal anything, as Belle in 1490 Ferronierre you remember? What was he thinking? Where or who looked that way? If you really was his lover prestigious, sure he could not speak, let alone could have his picture taken with him, good sense of time did not allow it. But she was there, and the send of the decorum of the time allowed and indeed required it to be beautiful. And if one is better you can allow them to be heavily involved and highly allusive I would say, with that look diagonally say-not-say that in laying compostissima said all his imposing presence and sneak some respect. And the same women Boldini, they seem so lost in their vanity '... are still supple and uninhibited without showing a pattern of reluctance and erudite beauty, stripping, affirm their self-determination of individuals mature and emancipated, fully aware of their femininity '. ... vanity that was not granted 500 years ago, but the 'fully aware of their femininity and claim' we put my hand on fire! And reflecting my favorite here at the side 'Portrait of the Countess Luisa Casati with a greyhound' 1908.