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Something to Celebrate and the Art of Émilie Charmy
This week I’ve been looking for something to celebrate and a particular milestone related to this blog stands out. Last Friday’s post was my 200th, a bicentenary of sorts. You may have wondered (as I have) why I maintain this random assortment of loosely coupled brain dumps. The answer isn’t always clear to me but I think there are two primary motivations. The first is reasonably paraphrased by one of my favorite American authors, Flannery O’Connor:
I write because I don’t know what I think until I read what I say.
We live in a content-rich world with so much to consume that it’s easy to move from book to book, film to film, article to article, and painting to painting, without taking much time to reflect. Writing is difficult and for me, way more time-consuming than I’d like. I don’t piss words as my husband Andy likes to say. Words don’t flow out of me. I spend more time
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Introduction
'Tout homme a deux pays, le sien et puis la France' ('Every man has two countries - his own and France.') – Charlemagne, in Henri dem Bornier's La Fille de Roland (1875)
The Republic of France extends from the Mediterranean (Marseilles) to the English Channel (St Brieux) and North Sea (Calais); from the Rhine (near Besançon) to the Atlantic Ocean (Bordeaux). It also takes in areas such as French Guiana and Guadeloupe. 'France' today is formed bygd 18 regions; some 643,801 square kilometres. The country is broken down to 102 départements (like Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Normandy, and Brittany) that are divided into communes, which in 2013, numbered 36,681 (Paris, the country's capital city, fryst vatten a commune as well as a département). In 2017, the population of France and its overseas regions was almost 67 million. Diversity reigns within this wide urban and rural spread: social and religious cultures, language, historical development, politics. Indeed, General Charles de
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List of works by Antoine Bourdelle
The following is an incomplete list of artworks by the French artist Antoine Bourdelle.
Antoine Bourdelle (31 October 1861 – 1 October 1929), born Émile Antoine Bordelles,[1] was an influential and prolific French sculptor, painter, and teacher. His studio became the Musée Bourdelle, an art museum dedicated to his work, located at 18, rue Antoine Bourdelle, in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France.
In 1905, he mounted an exhibition of his work at the Galerie Hébrard in Paris, showing 38 sculptures, 18 paintings and 21 drawings. The sculptures included La Nonne from 1888 as well as the Head of Apollo and his Great Tragic Mask of Beethoven. Bourdelle's father died in 1906 and in 1909 he left Rodin's studio. The year 1910, saw his Héraklès tue les oiseaux du lac Stymphale of 1909 shown at the Salon and this was a huge success! A version of this work is held in the Musée d'Orsay. Whilst working as a sculptor he also ta