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Month: May 2020

Reading the face

May 22, 2020threadofartCategories Uncategorized

Impressionism seems to brighten everyone’s mood – scenes of the bourgeois life – leisure life. A picnic, a stroll in the park, a café luncheon, a racetrack, a frilly-dressed petite jeune fille, a twilight-lit dance, a sip of absinthe, a melting cathedral,…

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Confronting the Enemy, or not.

May 7, 2020threadofartCategories Uncategorized

During the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte (as First Consul, 1799, and Emperor, 1804-1815), there were four artists who were “court painters” and who portrayed Napoleon in his most regal and powerful states and stances. They were all at the service…

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