Gene Oliver

John Singleton Copley: the great portraitist of the eighteenth century

Posted: January 13, 2012, Last Updated: January 13, 2012 | Gene Oliver

Portrait of a young lady with a bird pastel, dated and signed in right corner 1760

It is tempting for anyone who creates art to believe that it would be easier somewhere else. Where less people pursue art. Where every artistic creation has not already been done. Where everything and anything about art is not a click away. After reading John Singleton Copley by James Thomas Flexner, I could not help but wonder what would have been of the great portraitist of the eighteenth century if he hadn’t been born in the Boston colony and then lived in London? Would he have been as successful or would it have been easier for him to succeed? Although the book published by ...

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Raoul and Jean Dufy at the Musée Marmottan Monet

Posted: April 24, 2011, Last Updated: May 19, 2011 | Gene Oliver

Raoul Dufy – Intérieur à la fenêtre ouverte, 1928 – Huile sur toile 66 x 82 cm – Collection privée © Adagp, Paris 2011

Raoul and Jean Dufy, brothers and painters, share this exhibit, part of a French initiative that studies the artistic relationships among family members. Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), the older and the more famous of the two brothers, introduced Jean (1888-1964) to art. Starting in 1920, the two brothers maintained a close artistic relationship, sharing their cultural explorations while pursuing parallel careers with little in common. The exception is La Fee Electricité in 1937. Ironically, this art piece realized together marks also their rupture. They then followed their own artistic ...

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Kees Van Dongen at the Musée d’Art Moderne

Posted: April 02, 2011, Last Updated: May 19, 2011 | Gene Oliver

For four months, the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris offers to rediscover Kees Van Dongen, the complex Dutch artist who became in the 1920s an essential figure of the Fauvism, a caricaturist of the times and a Parisian socialite, but was later boycotted in France due to his highly controversial association with the German Reich. Kees Van Dongen was born in 1877, near Rotterdam, in a wealthy family. He enters the Royal Academy for the Arts at the age of sixteen. For the following years, he study drawing. His artwork will represent the world of sailors and prostitutes, ...

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