Landscapes
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paintings of
cathedrals and churches,
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Paintings and drawings of churches and gothic cathedrals:
Notre-Dame de Paris, Laon Cathedral, L'Eglise St. Pierre, American chapel in Paris, St.-Etienne, Carcassone L'Eglise St. Nazaire, and others ...
excerpts from
the war letters
BOATS & THE SEA
War drawings
drawings made from life
while in the army during WWII.
medium: litho crayon
France, Trinidad, United States, Panama, Germany
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Portraits of artists and writers
Portraits of Monet, Degas, Pissarro, Renoir, Cezanne, and other artists and individuals: critics, writers, dealers, on the periphery of the art scene.
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"Pour Moi, Cezanne"
illustrated with line drawings by the author.
a fictional autobiography.
The story of Paul Cezanne, the
Impressionist movement, from the beginning in Paris; rejection
at the Academy; friendship with Zola; failure, marriage,
frustration; ridicule, agony with family; the discovery, the mountain, peace,
the importance of Provence; recognition and final triumph at the Salon d'Automne."Pour Moi" CHAPTERS ON LINE:
Chapter 2, Guillemet and Alexis
from "Pour Moi, Cezanne"
"The changes taking place, the tensions I face, have turned everything gray. I speculate at times on my sanity, and there are others, watching how I deal with my life, who think I have already gone over the edge..."
Chapter 5, "Trouble with the Family"
Chapter 8, Manet's "Olympia"
"Castagary, a critic who was a staunch supporter of the Academie, said: "Manet has sunk to a new level in his plan to replace our traditional values. His ugly portrait of a disgusting whore, brazen and offensive to all decent-minded people, is unacceptable..."
Chapter 11, Loneliness
"I had the strong feeling that the kind of fame and fortune he wanted was tainted, that in time as the bills came due: the devil's insistence on a quid pro quo, he would be compelled to pay the price..." (Cezanne on Zola)
Chapter 16, "Pot de Merde"
--Cezanne gets trashed by the press; Zola tries to defend the radicals (for a while)
Chapter 40, My Secret is Discovered,
Louis-Auguste called painting "bourgeois shit," and used every epithet he could think of to denigrate the choices I had made to be a professional painter. "Artists," he growled, "are cretins and scabs who live off the sweat of other people's labor!"
Chapter 46, "L'Oeuvre"
--Cezanne's breakup with Zola
Chapter 83
The Nature of Things
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Chapters one through twelve
from "Art and Life,
Child of the Montmartre,"
the story of
Maurice Utrillo, as told in the first person by his mother, Suzanne Valadon.
The improbable story of a mentally deficient drunk who charmed the Parisian art critics, and made art history.
CHAPTERS
from "Child of the Montmartre"
on line:
ONE - Paris, 1900
TWO - Jules Depaquit
THREE - The Meal Ticket
FOUR - St. Joan, Christ, and Valadon
FIVE - God is my Savior
SIX - Quid Pro Quo
SEVEN - Accomodate the System
EIGHT - Devious Dealers
NINE - Bon Vivant
TEN - Pragmatism
ELEVEN - Painter of the Montmartre
TWELVE - Exploitation
Late in the year, 1912, Maurice was arrested for breaking the gaslight outside Marie Vizier's Cafe Belle Gabrielle, on the Rue Leval. As he was being dragged to the lockup, handcuffed to a police officer, Maurice urinated on the leg of his captor, and almost at the same moment, he exposed himself to several horrified women who were passing on the street... (MORE...)
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