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orientalistpaintings: ‘Fumee d’Ambre Gris’ by John Singer...

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:20:38 -0400

‘Fumee d’Ambre Gris’ by John Singer Sargent, American. Oil, 1880.

“Many artists, especially those from Great Britain were amazed at the color of light in the Middle East. While previously artists had traveled to Italy to study mediterranean light they now were going to north Africa as well.

Sargent painted this while in Morocco. The woman in this painting is burning a wax like substance from the sperm whale, thought to be an aphrodisiac.” —orientalist art

Egon Schiele Nobel Laureate Explores How Art Impacts the Brain...

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:13:43 -0400

Egon Schiele Nobel Laureate Explores How Art Impacts the Brain | ABC News : “Neuropsychiatrist and Nobel laureate Eric Kandel’s recent book on the brain, art and the creative process is a fascinating look into the brand new area of research called ‘neuroaesthetics.’”

Considered one of the world’s most important neuroscientists, Kandel recently published a book about the creative power of Vienna, the city of his birth. In an interview, he discusses the demonic side of man and the postcoital perspectives offered in Gustav Klimt’s paintings.

‘I See Psychoanalysis, Art and Biology Coming Together’

The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present, to be published this spring, is a 656-page excursion that takes the reader all the way to the depths of the soul, the cavernous chasms of sex and the secrets of beauty. Here, in Vienna, the former capital of the Habsburg Empire, the author traces a major revolution in Western thinking.

The salons of fin-de-siècle Vienna served as a meeting place for poets, painters, philosophers, architects and researchers who were creating nothing less than a radical new perception of who we are. They abandoned the ideal of the Enlightenment and revealed, below the surface of presumably rationally-acting Homo sapiens, that human beings are driven by instincts and urges. Sigmund Freud became the quintessential figure of this movement. But others also delved into the realm of the unconscious: Freud apparently saw Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler as an intimidating “double.” In a remarkable letter written on the eve of Schnitzler’s 60th birthday, the great psychoanalyst wrote to him: “I believe that fundamentally you are an explorer of the depths.” But, Kandel is primarily fascinated by the Viennese painters’ incipient interest in sexual drives and repressed desires. In his drawings, Gustav Klimt embarked on a daringly overt exploration of female lust. Oskar Kokoschka saw his portraits as “soul paintings,” in which he sought to divulge the layers of an individual’s inner life, which remain invisible to the naked eye. And Egon Schiele revealed himself in his self-portraits as plagued by extreme anxiety. In The Age of Insight, Kandel theorizes about a new area of research called “neuroaesthetics,” a conglomeration of his research in neuroscience, psychoanalysis, and historicism. His late work can be read as a manifesto for a new branch of science: neuroaesthetics. Kandel says that it’s time to use the tools of his field — neuroscience — to unravel the mystery of human creativity, the enigmatic impact of art and the dark depths of the unconscious mind. His goal is to draw a connection between our emotional reaction to a Klimt and Schiele portrait and the electrical flickers of individual neurons. In an interview with Spiegel Online, the author explains further: SPIEGEL: In your book, you make a case for using neurobiology to help understand art and the creative process. That’s quite ambitious. Kandel: There’s a Jewish phrase called chutzpah, which means a “bit of nerve” to try to do this. It is ambitious — and even more so, since some critics have the idea that as soon as you try to explain art in biological terms you take away from the pleasure you get from just looking at it. SPIEGEL: And how do you respond to that accusation? Kandel: I don’t think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It’s a parallel, not a substitutive process. Interview conducted by Johann Grolle. Read the rest of the interview/review at Spiegel Online.

Opium Smoking — The Lascar's Room

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:01:14 -0400

We threaded an extraordinary tangle of dark alleys where two men could just walk abreast, under the...

Gustave Doré “Opium Smoking, the Lascar’s...

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:40:29 -0400

Gustave Doré
“Opium Smoking, the Lascar’s Rooms,” Edwin Drood from London: A Pilgrimage, 1872

"These contemporary Orientalist attitudes flood the press and the popular mind. Arabs, for example,..."

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:48:56 -0400

“These contemporary Orientalist attitudes flood the press and the popular mind. Arabs, for...

ex0rientelux: Carl Blechen, The Interior of the Palm House on...

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:38:04 -0400

ex0rientelux:

Carl Blechen, The Interior of the Palm House on the Pfaueninsel Near Potsdam, 1834

orientalistpaintings: ‘Afternoon in Algiers’ by Frederick...

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:20:29 -0400

orientalistpaintings:

‘Afternoon in Algiers’ by Frederick Arthur Bridgman, American. Oil.

“Frederick Arthur Bridgman was born in Alabama and studied first in New York and then in Paris under Gerome. He first traveled to the Middle East while in his twenties; visiting Egypt and Algeria. In addition to painting he was also a photographer and often painted from the photos that he had taken.
Although he was an Academic painter he liked the Impressionists. While we tend to think today of 19th century art movements as being separate and inimical to each other friendships often flourished across ideological borders. Bridgman admired the Impressionists Manet and Renoir while Renoir admired the Romantic Delacroix.
He loved Algeria and because of his exposure to slavery in the pre Civil War South he was an anti-colonialist.”

—orientalist art

fleurdulys: Dark Haired Beauty in a Turquoise Dress - Elisabeth...

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:04:59 -0400

fleurdulys:

Dark Haired Beauty in a Turquoise Dress - Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann

19th century

"We are to assume that if an Arab feels joy, if he is sad at the death of his child or parent, if he..."

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:03:27 -0400

“We are to assume that if an Arab feels joy, if he is sad at the death of his child or parent,...

harem-esque: Light of the Harem, 1880 Frederic Leighton (via...

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 10:02:42 -0400

harem-esque:

Light of the Harem, 1880

Frederic Leighton

(via haremsetc, originally posted by artemisdreaming)

fleurdulys: Samson and Delilah - Max Liebermann 1901

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:47:59 -0400

fleurdulys:

Samson and Delilah - Max Liebermann

1901

Elisabeth Vigée LebrunMarie Antoinette a la Rose 1783 Petit...

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:40:16 -0400

Elisabeth Vigée Lebrun
Marie Antoinette a la Rose
1783
Petit Trianon, Château Versailles, Paris.

"Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a..."

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 09:17:44 -0400

“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a...

le-desir-de-lautre: Ferdinand Hodler (Swiss,...

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:18:29 -0400

le-desir-de-lautre:

Ferdinand Hodler (Swiss, 1853-1918), Portrait of Louise-Delphine Duchosal, 1885, oil on canvas, 55 x 46 cm, Kunsthaus, Zurich.

blastedheath: Alfred Roll (French, 1846-1919), Femme assoupie...

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:18:14 -0400

blastedheath:

Alfred Roll (French, 1846-1919), Femme assoupie au canapé rouge. Pastel, 34 x 51 cm.

colourthysoul: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Portrait of Helen...

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:18:12 -0400

colourthysoul:

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Portrait of Helen (detail)

1888

bofransson: Study of a Model, Edvard Munch 1893

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:18:08 -0400

bofransson:

Study of a Model, Edvard Munch

1893

felixinclusis: dada4you: Alexandre Louis Patry

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:18:04 -0400

felixinclusis:

dada4you: Alexandre Louis Patry

venusmilk: Alphonse Mucha ”Medee, Theatre de la Renaissance,...

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:18:01 -0400

venusmilk:

Alphonse Mucha ”Medee, Theatre de la Renaissance, Sarah Bernhardt”

One of my favorite Mucha paintings~

zombienormal: The Lost Paradise. Adolf Münzer, Jugend magazine,...

artisandoflove — Thu, 23 May 2013 07:17:57 -0400

zombienormal:

The Lost Paradise. Adolf Münzer, Jugend magazine, 1902.

Via.