vendredi 23 mars 2007

Seeing Double... or Clouded Thinking? Having fun... cinquante et un Edouard Manet's "Le Buveur d'Absinthe" (The Absinthe Drinker), painted in 1859, was his first truly realist work. Using a drunken rag-and-bone-man by the name of Collardet - known at the time to those who frequented the environs of the Louvre in Paris - the subject matter, and the more or less life-size artistic treatment, was rather too lifelike for contemporary tastes and thus rejected by the Salon Jury. Update 12 June 2007 : This article now continues here; a new website launched in May '07 to host 400 articles... there will soon be 20 individual subjects in each of 20 different categories... Ed Buziak's 20/20 Visions. 4:13:47 PM    comment []