Art & Individuality
Manet and Morisot: The Family Romance – Part 2
Painting Morisot, Manet was painting himself in the feminine.
Manet and Morisot: The Family Romance – Part 1
An in-depth interpretation of the Manet-Morisot relationship
Manet: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère – Analysis – Part 3
Art & artifact. A work of art is first and foremost a poetic image.
Manet: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère – Analysis – Part 2
Structure, iconography; visible/imaginary, real world/reverie
Manet: A Bar at the Folies-Bergère – Analysis – Part 1
Anatomy of the painting: detailed pictorial analysis
Degas’ Depiction of Women: From Description to Evocation
Degas’ changing pictorial strategies in his representation of women
Gauguin, Cézanne, the Primitive and Symbolism – Part 2
Liberating the painter’s mark from any naturalistic function (2)
Gauguin, Cézanne, the Primitive and Symbolism – Part 1
Liberating the painter’s mark from any naturalistic function (1)
Marguerite Duras: The Lover – Image and Absence
Writing and eroticism as liberation and self-creation
Jean Rhys: Voyage in the Dark – Introduction 2
Not just a great artistic progress but a great moral one