tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694563163726770793.post4491282754105103110..comments2023-09-29T01:38:56.468-05:00Comments on SIMPLY GRAND: Winter Giveth and Winter Taketh AwayMagnaverdehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04231057342527140091noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694563163726770793.post-79384104793835037852012-03-07T17:58:54.332-06:002012-03-07T17:58:54.332-06:00Hels, they're two different Armories. The Seve...Hels, they're two different Armories. The Seventh Regiment Armory--where the Winter Antiques Show went on without me--is a few miles north of the one where all the uproar was in 1913. By the way, after the Armory Show came down, the best pieces traveled out here to Chicago, where they went on display at the the Art Institute, a much more elegant venue than the one in NYC. <br /><br />The indignant reaction, however, was much the same. Henri Mattisse was the target of particular scorn, a copy of his Blue Nude being torched by a raucous mob in front of the museum and the artist himself condemned to death for Crimes against Art. Who was behind the this demonstration of outrage? The Moralists? The Clergy? No, it was those eternal defenders of conservatism & tradition, a group of art students. Oh, those wacky kids! <br /><br />Thanks for stopping by.Magnaverdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04231057342527140091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694563163726770793.post-46024109019285851962012-03-06T20:55:13.651-06:002012-03-06T20:55:13.651-06:00Is this the same Armory that held the 1913 Interna...Is this the same Armory that held the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, set up by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors? If so, I am well impressed!<br /><br />Whenever the students and I discuss the opening up of post-Impressionist, Fauvist and Cubist work outside France, the two events that dominate are: <br />1. Fry's 1910 exhibition "Manet and the Post-Impressionists" in London and <br />2. New York's Armory Show in New York 1913. Thousands of pieces of modern art *heart flutter*Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694563163726770793.post-27061351089217509082012-02-08T20:12:08.916-06:002012-02-08T20:12:08.916-06:00Kerry, thanks for stopping by. Any friend of David...Kerry, thanks for stopping by. Any friend of David Payne's is a friend of mine.<br /><br />And JJT, thanks for your kind words. I think we sometimes used to meet over at EEE's or AAL's blog, back in the days before you had a blog of your own, and when I was commenting under the nom-de-web Magnaverde. At any rate, it's a pleasure to see you here and an honor to see a link back here on your own blog. Many thanks. Let's hope I can live up to the compliment.Magnaverdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04231057342527140091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694563163726770793.post-48470328507776758442012-02-05T08:22:39.077-06:002012-02-05T08:22:39.077-06:00I love paperwhites, plaster casts, and your blog!
...I love paperwhites, plaster casts, and your blog!<br />__ The Devoted ClassicistJohn J. Tacketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17138329330942154191noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694563163726770793.post-73556024388430526772012-01-27T17:33:02.943-06:002012-01-27T17:33:02.943-06:00Your urn really is to be envied and very grand pla...Your urn really is to be envied and very grand place to keep a scarf or two.Kerry Steele- Design du Mondehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13066816712379181399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694563163726770793.post-14898726854736145772012-01-25T11:18:11.179-06:002012-01-25T11:18:11.179-06:00Funny you should mention John Soane, Parnassus, be...Funny you should mention John Soane, Parnassus, because I assembled that black-walled room--with plaster casts & fragments of demolished buildings on every wall--in direct imitation of the Monk's Parlour at Soane's house. Both Classical America & the Getty have large collections of plaster casts they're slowly restoring, but the only place left in this country to see a full-bore installation of casts still in its original setting--created in 1907--is at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg.Magnaverdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04231057342527140091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3694563163726770793.post-4292196608913461752012-01-25T10:27:22.643-06:002012-01-25T10:27:22.643-06:00Those plaster casts used to be, as you said, quite...Those plaster casts used to be, as you said, quite the thing, but today they are démodé. If you get to England, the basement of the Victoria and Albert has a large cast collection, and it is an amazing sight. Also, I'm sure you know of the John Soane house in London; he probably got started in a similar way.<br />--Road to ParnassusParnassushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08958901307538141468noreply@blogger.com