2008 2008: a year of sweeping political change, jarring economic upheaval, and amidst it all, the official launch of a plucky little weblog called The Abbeville Manual of Style. Most people won’… more →
The Abbeville Manual of StyleOnCulture Europe wrote 6 hours ago: An exhibition rich of masterpieces that tell about the relationship between the Barbizon school of F … more →
manicddaily wrote 2 weeks ago: Courbet "Baigneuses" (detail - only one baigneuse) The combination of day job, blog, and … more →
mar wrote 4 weeks ago: This is the blog for Group 3: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century French Painters. Each group member s … more →
misconceptionoftheoyster wrote 2 months ago: Imogen Cunningham’s The Supplicant, 1910 I love Cunningham’s print of Portia Hume for se … more →
misconceptionoftheoyster wrote 2 months ago: Laux really does an interesting feat here by reversing who is the “conqueror” during … more →
groovyboy wrote 5 months ago: Gustave Courbet “Quotes” Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and … more →
burlytownmayor wrote 6 months ago: Gustave Courbet has been one of my favorite artists since I began reading about him in high school … more →
nouvellesdechicago wrote 7 months ago: Tomorrow I’m going to the Louvre, so please indulge me the cheap rhyme in the title of this po … more →
realismocvp wrote 7 months ago: Em meados do século XIX, o mundo passava por grandes mudanças: lutas sociais, tentativas de revoluçã … more →
Deborah Barlow wrote 7 months ago: Paul Cézanne’s “Madame Cézanne in a Red Armchair” (MFA, Boston) For many modern ar … more →
gustavecourbet55 wrote 8 months ago: His mature works are characterized by a rejection of earlier naturalistic styles, and make use of sy … more →
gustavecourbet55 wrote 8 months ago: Collectively the five restituted paintings, including aforementioned landscapes, netted over $327 Se … more →
dapotts wrote 9 months ago: As we have been discussing in class, the literary and the painterly go hand-in-hand in the Modern pe … more →
nouvellesdechicago wrote 10 months ago: «Le temps est abominable ici. Chaque matin quand je me réveille, je regarde par les vitres le temps … more →
Sally wrote 10 months ago: I was asked to produce a work in response to Gustave Courbet’s ‘The Origin of the World … more →
abbeville wrote 11 months ago: 2008 2008: a year of sweeping political change, jarring economic upheaval, and amidst it all, the of … more →
paintersprogress wrote 11 months ago: I think that’s going to be the title of this little painting, because of the way the two tiny … more →
nouvellesdechicago wrote 11 months ago: Drats! Blasted 19th century infant mortality! Yesterday, I went back to the Ryerson library to finis … more →
nouvellesdechicago wrote 11 months ago: One of my favorite paintings at the Art Institute is Rêverie (portrait de Gabrielle Borreau). (This … more →