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	<title>Escape Into Life &#187; art history</title>
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		<title>Odilon Redon: Prince of Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TonyT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Redon was born into a prosperous Bordeaux family and began drawing at the age of ten. As a young child he suffered from epilepsy and was sent away to live with his Uncle on the family vineyard at Peyrelebade in the Medoc, where he experienced the “full solitude of the countryside”. It was perhaps here that he formed the fusion of the natural and the fantastic that characterised his work as a graphic artist. ]]></description>
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		<title>In Dialogue with the Muse of Art History: Brett Whiteley</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 02:31:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TonyT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brett Whiteley was born in April 1939, a few months before the outbreak of WWII. Like Ginger Meggs, Brett had a mop of red hair and was a bit of a tearaway, but unlike the comic book hero was no Aussie battler, coming from a comfortable middle class background on Sydney’s north shore. He had a precocious talent for drawing, winning an art prize at the age of seven, the first of many that came early in his career. ]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Gauguin and Savageness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lwest</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Escape may be part of every traveler’s impetus, but Paul Gauguin elevated this urge into an idealization of savageness that fueled his art and subsequent success. Torn by dual impulses, to escape into a primitive culture but also to achieve renown in the Western art world, Gauguin first began exploring the Caribbean and later Polynesia in a search of a primitive utopia that he painted but never found.]]></description>
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		<title>Knud Merrild: An Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StephenP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Danish artist Knud Merrild (1894-1954) started off his career as an apprentice house painter, a job which helped him survive during low income periods, and more importantly provided him with the inspiration for his “flux” technique.]]></description>
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		<title>The Art Museum and its Origins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:51:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TonyT</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Ashmolean Museum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the oldest displays of art is in the caves at Lascaux, which contain around 2,000 painted figures, including over 900 identified as animals, dated at around 16,000 BC. There are similar caves at Altamira in Spain, and some aboriginal rock art in Australia may be at least 40,000 years old.]]></description>
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		<title>Russian and Soviet Art: Levitan and Pimenov</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StephenP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like the term "erotic fatigue," there is probably a term for looking at too many Russian landscape paintings, i.e. "landscape fatigue.” One starts with good intentions, but after twenty or so paintings--they all tend to merge into one Ur-landscape of the nineteenth century. A lot of it has to do with the problem of foreground and field. If you're looking at the usual stock of trees, skies and a few buildings, nothing stands out. But if you are arrested by a detail or a sharp contrast in the style, then you can make out something significant.]]></description>
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		<title>Pierre Bonnard: the Intimiste</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TonyT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pierre Bonnard was born on 3 October 1867 at Fontenay-aux-Roses, a village outside Paris, into a comfortable bourgeois family. He studied at various Lycées, receiving a law degree in 1888. He began his artistic studies first at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and then at the Académie Julian, where he met his lifetime friends and collaborators, including Maurice Denis, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Edouard Vuillard and Paul Sérusier.
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		<title>The Legacy of Joseph Beuys</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:47:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>StephenP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 1965 photograph of Joseph Beuys (1921-1986) cradling, almost mothering, a dead hare today seems iconic. It certainly is more accessible and far-reaching than his drawings and installations. What was he explaining to the dead hare in 1965? The failure of the modernist revolution? The end of old German culture? Why does he always look like a hunter without a rifle? Or is this part of his performance art?]]></description>
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		<title>Norman Rockwell: The Outsider</title>
		<link>http://www.escapeintolife.com/essays/norman-rockwell-the-outsider/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TonyT</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pieter Breugel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) was a famous American illustrator who enjoyed enormous popularity in the middle of the 20th Century. His output was large, comprising some 4,000 works, the best known being illustrations produced for the Saturday Evening Post. For many Americans he set the standard for illustration-cum-painting, providing them with a regular art exhibition in their own homes. ]]></description>
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		<title>Kurt Schwitters: Citizen of the World</title>
		<link>http://www.escapeintolife.com/essays/kurt-schwitters-citizen-of-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mkerste</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["To say that Kurt Schwitters was an amazingly versatile artist and anticipated much is such an absurd understatement that the remark is almost dada,” wrote Walter Hopps in 1962, and it’s no less true today. The art of assemblage in particular is inconceivable without him, but his ideas reached into graphic art, architecture and theater as well, and he wrote all manner of texts, including short urban tales that draw parallels to today’s flash fiction craze. The following is a brief homage to Kurt Schwitters . . .]]></description>
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