A week of HY culture, these past ten days, I’ve seen the Liquid Desire of Dali at the National Gallery of Victoria, heard the London Philharmonic Orchestra play the Eroica of Beethoven at Hamer Hall and witnessed twenty-first century German opera in its gruelling best interpretation of ancient Greek legend, Medea, at the State Theatre.
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HY Culture #91004 : Dali’s cats OR which way did the electron go?
Posted in Painting, tagged art, desire, NGV, Painting, Salvador Dali, surrealism, Vermeer on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mister G.
Posted in Painting, Writing, tagged constantin guys, French painting, nineteenth century, flaneur, charles baudelaire on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The reader and I will preserve the fiction that Monsieur G. does not exist, and we shall concern ourselves with his drawings and his watercolours (for which he expresses a patrician scorn) as though we were scholars who had to pronounce upon precious historical documents, thrown up by chance, whose author must remain eternally unknown… [...]
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