Grand scale of a dramatic tale Jun 9, 2008
While true in the twilight of Romanticism, at the beginning it seemed almost the other way around, as composers expanded music's previously demure horizons through literature, art and philosophy, continuing the path shown by Beethoven into what E.T.A.Hoffmann called the realm of the infinite. Hector Berlioz's hybrid work, the "dramatic symphony" Romeo Et Juliette, is best understood as part of this phantasmagoria. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Jonathan Williams Jun 6, 2008
Williams was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and raised in Washington DC. Early exposure to works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Blake, Georges Rouault and Michel de Montaigne quickened him to the possibilities of "word and image, how to put them together, how to print and publish - it all began to heat slowly on the back burner." Late romanticism in music and paintings drew him into "celebrating human difference", boyhood collections of Indian relics and Georgia mountain minerals... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Bobby recalled Jun 6, 2008
But he would no doubt have warmed to the lyricism and political romanticism of Barak Obama. The wave of nostalgia which will accompany this anniversary should benefit Mr Obama, whose rhetorical skills and insurgent campaign are reminiscent of Bobby Kennedy. (BBC News -- Americas)
Thwarting bridge jumpers takes toll May 4, 2008
Survivors have cited convenience and the romanticism associated with ending their lives in beautiful locales, floating through space before being enveloped by the water and then darkness. "They think of transcendental flight through the air and then they're going to hit the water and drown," says Dr. Lanny Berman, executive director of the American Association of Suicidology. (Boston Globe)
Effort stops suicides at high-profile bridge, but officials weigh cost May 4, 2008
Convenience and romanticism mix ... Survivors have cited convenience and the romanticism associated with ending their lives in beautiful locales, floating through space before being enveloped by the water and then darkness. (The Pantagraph newspaper)
A Cut Above: Jewelry: Top jewelers turn to their heritage to sell on the global stage May 3, 2008
"Boucheron is a brand of the 19th century, typically influenced by movements such as Romanticism, Naturalism, Orientalism and Symbolism," B. dos said. (International Herald Tribune)
Glad to be grey Apr 23, 2008
There is, I think, a uniquely British thread of hushed romanticism in the paintings of Elinor Bellingham-Smith, Paul Nash, Victor Pasmore, John Piper, Alan Reynolds and Leonard Rosoman. They know how to make a virtue of grey, as only a Briton can. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Gardner expansion goes against vision Apr 20, 2008
But this whole energy independence, off-the-grid mentality, which has taken on something of a go-it-alone cowboy romanticism, misses a big point: Most people can't escape the grid, and so what we don't need is well-to-do people preening themselves as more environmentally conscious for having washed their hands of that dirty old grid. Instead of folks indulging in pieties about going off-grid, we need people who are going to change the grid, clean it up, green it up, so that the grid itself... (Boston Globe)
Xu Beihong: A Chinese master of styles that straddle East and West Apr 12, 2008
"Xu had an immense influence on the development of Chinese painting in the 20th century because he championed an expansive realism that included Romanticism and Expressionism," said Kwok Kian Chow, the director of the Singapore Art Museum, where an exhibition showcasing more than 90 of Xu's works opened this month. His style, Kwok said, was "predicated on the ocular world as opposed to the literati tradition of text.". (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
* Martial arts film with an anti-war message Mar 21, 2008
Parts of the story are reminiscent of the Ching-esque martial arts romanticism in A Chinese Ghost Story (k) and Swordsman (). Ching's cinema often highlights strong female roles, but in this movie, the princess is also the vehicle of a simplistic and easy-to-digest anti-war message. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
A sense of urgency drives Maastricht art fair Mar 15, 2008
Stormy light plays on the woman's white muslin dress and on the splashing water of a torrent at the foot of the mountain side, enhancing the atmosphere of disheveled Romanticism. Did the buyer have his own idea about the author of the unsigned picture. (International Herald Tribune)
The perfect Weapon Mar 2, 2008
On the last track, We Move Away, Weapon sings almost like Kraftwerk romanticism: "I wonder why we mooooove away," stating reasons for staying here. Afterparty Babies is great for clubs, the radio and the mind. (Edmonton Sun)
Barenboim's big adventure Feb 25, 2008
These are tough times for romanticism, especially of the revolutionary and redemptive kind that triumphs in the music Beethoven wrote for keyboard. In a post-modern world of ersatz fragmentation, that profoundly Beethovenian sense of the 'human spirit' endures, but demonstrations of its greatness are rare. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Is that a cello on your shoulder? Feb 13, 2008
"This hagiography of famous Italian makers - it's all romanticism. I don't believe that there is one single "Stradivarius" violin. It might exist, but there is no reason to accept that it does [just] because Mr. So-and-So says it is one.". Kuijken recalls a gorgeous set of "17th-century" viols that he used to gaze at in a Brussels museum as a child. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Comment: Russell Brand Jan 19, 2008
The Dionysian versus the Apollonian, romanticism versus pragmatism, forever we oscillate and vie between these two contrasting ideas. A wise man once remarked to me that the Third Reich was an example of what happens when you put an artist in a position of power; although many of Hitler's atrocities were committed as a result of him being a right bastard as opposed to an artist - there's nothing in pointillism that suggests that genocide would be worthwhile. (Guardian Unlimited)
In the bleak midwinter Jan 10, 2008
Even the Takacs' readings of the six Bartok quartets have a certain idiosyncratic Romanticism. For those who attended the Emerson's concert, this one might be of interest as contrast. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
Composer noted for 'Hollywood Sound' Dec 28, 2007
heard his music through the medium of film," said Mauceri, who conducted the Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna in a Nov. 29 death-day retrospective of Korngold works and contemporary film music at the city's art deco Konzerthaus. "When you hear Harry Potter,' and Star Wars' - that's something Vienna can be proud of," he said. And yet Korngold viewed his legacy as a tragic mistake - the result of a promising "classical" career gone awry. Recognized by age 10 as a musical prodigy, Korngold logged... (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Review: The Dirt on Clean Dec 15, 2007
An Unsanitized History. By Katherine Ashenburg. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Screen tests Nov 24, 2007
In four short pieces he explores the meeting of romanticism and modernist absurdity. His video after the mist shows the artist repeatedly and very badly hitting golf balls at a Berlin driving range. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Miller: Reviewing Berger Nov 9, 2007
How could Furedi have so confused Bergers genuine internationalism with a tendency to romanticism. The answer surely lies in his barely-disguised antipathy to Bergers left-wing politics. (Zmag.org)
The pristine past rediscovered Nov 7, 2007
" But there were still individuals - some of them artists - who issued warnings. "I don't want to call them eco-warriors or environmental heroes but that is basically what they were," Martin says. People such as the national parks pioneer Myles Dunphy and the environmentalist Marie Byles - and von Guerard. Born in Vienna in 1811, von Guerard travelled extensively around Italy with his artist father and studied landscape painting in Dusseldorf before travelling to Victoria in 1852 to try his luck... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Sting's 'eroticism' Nov 7, 2007
He explained, "I was seeing that world for the first time. I'm sure it went on in Newcastle but in Paris there was a certain romanticism and a tradition around it.". . (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Being Shelley Oct 31, 2007
They refused to separate life and art, embracing the cult of creative genius that had grown up under European Romanticism. Moreover, they felt their genius exempted them from the morality and mores of the common herd and made little effort to disguise the fact. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
In the storm of the eye Oct 28, 2007
Un enterrement ; Ornans was in reality the death of Romanticism,' Courbet said later, sounding like his own most vociferous champion. As a youth, too, he painted himself in various dramatic poses, one of which, the startling Le d;sesp;r;, has the immediacy of a snatched photograph. (Guardian Unlimited)
Painter Robert Ferrandini pushes past tragedy Oct 26, 2007
The older paintings had a Hudson River School majesty and romanticism; they tangled with nature's darkness and found light at its center. Ferrandini brought fear and awe to his canvases, and his work was shot through with the humility of a man standing before something transcendent. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Artists make political statements at CCSU Oct 23, 2007
Unlike Drake's work which conveys an in-your-face political statement, Keever goes back to the basics of Romanticism in his photography. But unlike typical dreamy landscapes, Keever builds his fictional landmarks and submerges them in a large aquarium in his New York studio, contributing to the dreamy effect. (New Britain Herald, CT)
The Sunshine Boy Oct 13, 2007
In Caernarvon Castle, an early watercolor flushed with orange twilight, Turner took Lorrain's tranquil model and invested it with the nostalgia and high-minded melancholy of English Romanticism. He may not convince you that the sun is God. (Time.com)
Last French Piano Maker Stakes Survival on Red Spruce, Mammoth-Tusk Keys Oct 10, 2007
It fits Chopin's romanticism and the small concert halls of the past. . (Bloomberg -- Europe)
The Historic Significance of Atlas Shrugged Oct 9, 2007
Literarily, she recognized the romanticism in the extraordinary feats of these business innovators. In Atlas Shrugged this is perhaps best capture in repeated references to the legend of Nat Taggart, the swashbuckling young adventurer who founded the railroad for which Dagny Taggart works a character based, in part, on the real-life swashbuckling of Commodore Vanderbilt's early career. (Fox News -- Politics)
Golden age of Cuban music fading Oct 8, 2007
The golden age of Cuban music is fading, with its greatest stars dying or growing old - 10/08/2007 - MiamiHerald (The Miami Herald)
White Lies, Remixed Oct 7, 2007
Dave Spoon Dub: The UK DJ/producer s progressive take on the same beats is the least trance of the lot, preferring the steady precision and reduced romanticism of full-on techno. While the song is that remarkable thing, a dance tune that works equally well in all mixes, what s it actually about. (Suite101.com)
Accorsi not retiring Colts regrets Oct 6, 2007
He wasn't forewarned at all," Accorsi said. Accorsi is a sentimentalist, and even though he went on to enjoy successful GM stints with the Browns and New York Giants, he'll always attach some romanticism to Baltimore. Goal to be GMHe grew up in Hershey, Pa., and the Colts were his childhood love. He knew from a young age that he wanted to be a general manager but didn't crack the NFL until former general manager Don Klosterman offered him a job in the Colts' public relations department. It was... (Sunspot.net -- Sports)
Andre Kim, South Korea's fashion pioneer, still in the public eye at 72 Sep 17, 2007
He sprinkled English words, like "elegance," "romanticism," "fantasy" and "intellectual," into every other sentence. "I love the Oxford accent. It is very dignified," Kim said. (International Herald Tribune)
Across the Universe Sep 12, 2007
Pics commercial prospects look more in line with those of Rent than of Chicago, though the Taymor touch achieves enough sporadic moments of invention and punch-drunk romanticism to steal the hearts of baby boomers and young female auds in particular. The flaky, freewheeling tuner features a cast of relative unknowns delivering fresh renditions of 33 classic tunes. (Variety)
The Media and human rights protection Aug 28, 2007
But here lies the heroic romanticism. We are all caught up in our own lives, occupations and callings. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Editorial)
Things to do today: Aug. 26, 2007 Aug 26, 2007
The West Virginia Symphony performs a program titled The Flowering of Romanticism with soloists Ilya Kaler on violin and Jolyon Pegis on cello ... The Flowering of Romanticism encompasses those years of the 19th century when musicians, beginning with Beethoven and progressing through Robert Schumann to Tchaikovsky, embraced the emotional message as being equal to formal structure in their works. (Charleston Gazette, WV -- News)
Tibet inspires Aug 10, 2007
Trip to Tibet dispels romanticism, inspires '40 Days. While still a student at the University of Alaska Anchorage, artist Michelle Hayworth transformed a huge travel trunk into a container of wax and nails. (Anchorage Daily News)
Angry young artists get the brush-off Aug 9, 2007
Among this new crop there is a tendency towards romanticism, with a focus on self-portraiture and traditional practice. At art school, the trend is showing itself through a push towards drawing and painting - more refined, practice-driven disciplines. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Jaime Haylon's whimsical world of playful creations Aug 8, 2007
Bold and vibrant, Hayon's bathroom struck a timely contrast with the delicate romanticism of early 2000s design. He was approached by more collectors and manufacturers, including Lladr. (International Herald Tribune)
SummerFest opens on excited note Aug 7, 2007
The Dvorak-Smetana-Brahms program a feast of 19th-century romanticism featuring such stellar musicians as violinist Lin and pianists Cecile Licad and Joseph Kalichstein was the first of 15 performances scheduled over 24 days. That makes this year's edition of SummerFest six days longer than last year's, the idea being to spread out the programs and lessen the chance of audience fatigue so that fans keep coming back for more. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
An unexplored legacy of art and romance Jul 22, 2007
Teenage aggression and romanticism collide repeatedly in "A Brighter Summer Day," with death and transcendence meted out in identical doses, and the struggles of hope-barren adolescents becoming representative of the growing pains of Taiwan itself. Music is the currency of the realm, its call to arms , and its death knell. (Boston Globe)
Sweet dreams Jul 17, 2007
It is hard to shrug off the romanticism, but then, why should one. For me, Fridfinnsson is at his best when he allies stories and images, and weaves things about his own life and things he has heard into what he does. (Guardian Unlimited)
Girl who has it all loses everything Jul 16, 2007
The early '70s, the New York art and publishing worlds, free love, Vietnam, Kierkegaard, Weil: It's a recipe for romanticism and easy sentimentality. Yet it's hard to imagine a less sentimental book than Spanidou's "Before." Set during a three-month period, "Before" is a dark and brutal treatment of the unraveling of a marriage and a life. (San Francisco Chronicle)
William Blake Jul 8, 2007
Romanticism came about during the Industrial Revolution as a rebellion against the artistic movements that preceded it. Artistically, Romanticism stressed strong emotion, imagination, and freedom from classical correctness in art forms ... Philosophically, Romanticism was a rebellion against what it viewed as restrictive and stifling social conventions. (Suite101.com)
An inspector calls Jul 7, 2007
But it was also a thrilling, generous idea - "administrative romanticism", in one expert's nice phrase - typical of the new generation which came into power in 1830. The great 19th-century critic Sainte-Beuve later wrote: "It was like a kind of pilgrimage. Experts combed the provinces, rushing towards any town which had a steeple pointing like a finger into the sky, towards every church tower and Gothic arch. They hunted through the oldest parts of towns, explored the narrowest alleyways, and... (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
* Return to the Summer of Love Jun 28, 2007
The florid romanticism - and drug-induced haze - of the vaunted psychedelic era is being revisited at Nerw York's Whitney Museum of American Art in The Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, a show of concert posters from rock emporiums like the fabled Fillmore East in New York, the Fillmore West in San Francisco and clubs like UFO and Fifth Dimension in London. Books like The American Counterculture chronicle the age of Timothy Leary, Sergeant Pepper, Procol Harum and Woodstock. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
GIANFRANCO FERRÉ Jun 19, 2007
"It is not difficult, for example, to identify, in the various collections over the years, my love of the figurative arts, the great classical painters and, even more, the strong and simple sensitivity of modern and primitive art. The references to worlds and cultures I have experienced personally, particularly in the Far East (India, China, Japan), are easy to see, as are those to the important experiences of Western culture, from Baroque to Neo-classicism, Romanticism to Decadentism."... (Style.com -- Trends)
Maltz Museum Admission Free for Final Weeks of Masterpieces of European Painting Jun 14, 2007
These 18 world-renowned pieces from the Renaissance through Romanticism are exquisitely presented; move freely among them as Mozart accompaniment from The Cleveland Orchestra plays softly in your ear. Get reacquainted with these treasures, not on display in Cleveland for the past two years since the Cleveland Museum of Art began renovation. (PR Newswire)
30 years ago today, George Lucas's space opera redefined Hollywood May 26, 2007
Film critic Steven Greydanus points out that Star Wars has been blamed for wrecking the Hollywood movie industry by turning it from "relevant" and "gritty" films such as The Godfather, Taxi Driver and Annie Hall toward "juvenile fantasy, spectacle, and romanticism.". From the late 1960s through to the mid-1970s, Hollywood turned out some of the best movies ever made -- from gangster films such as The Godfather and detective movies such as The Long Goodbye to westerns like McCabe & Mrs. Miller to... (Global National)
The Edge of Heaven May 24, 2007
Superbly cast drama, in which the lives and emotional arcs of six people -- four Turks and two Germans -- criss-cross through love and tragedy takes the German-born Turkish writer-director's ongoing interest in two seemingly divergent cultures to a humanist level that's way beyond the grungy romanticism of his 2003 "Head-On" or the dreamy dramedy of "In July" (2000). Robust upscale biz looks a given. (Variety)
Didier Courbot May 12, 2007
He has also been included in numerous group exhibitions, among them, P.S.1 (New York, 1997), Miro Fondation (Barcelona, 1998), Yokohama Triennale (Japan, 2005), Muse Zadkine (Paris) and Kunstverein Freiburg (Germany, 2006), and recently Conceptual Romanticism, Bewag Foundation, Vienna curated by Jorg Heiser. Related Links. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Joseph Cornell retrospective stresses the tensions between capture and release Apr 29, 2007
Cornell's worshipful homage seems genuinely felt, yet the kitschy, over-the-top luxuriance of the picture suggests that he might be having a bit of fun with his own extreme romanticism. Still, the mood that mostly prevails in Cornell's work is ultimately one of unrequited yearning for something beyond the limits of the box. (Boston Globe)
* Together they made modern dance modern Apr 29, 2007
She rockets from the heady excitements of New York's burgeoning art scene in the 1950s to the fraught relationships between the modern "Biggies" (including Martha Graham, Jose Limon and Doris Humphrey) at the American Dance Festival to tour descriptions that suggest she would make a fine travel writer, though one prone to moments of outrageous romanticism. (In India, during the company's 1964 world tour, she even inquires about adopting a "curly-haired beggar child."). (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Totalitarian art required total immersion Apr 29, 2007
Soviet art was initially a broad tent with room for everything from the romanticism of pre-czarist Russia to the avant-garde constructivist movement, which built its images from simple geometric shapes. Among the most intriguing items in Art in Revolution are colorful revolutionary wall posters featuring fat bumbling bankers and landlords pursued by brawny peasants and workers, or capitalism as a monstrous octopus battled by Soviet soldiers and sailors. (The Miami Herald)
Studio Daniel Libeskind Projects Honored as 'New Wonder of the World,' and One of Largest Visitor Attractions in England Apr 21, 2007
"With a breathtaking view of the Rocky Mountains and the sky, the dialogue between the boldness of construction and the romanticism of the landscape creates a unique place.". Imperial War Museum North. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Caetano Veloso: cê Apr 11, 2007
Four decades after co-founding the tropicalismo movement as a fire-breathing countercultural revolutionary, Veloso's revered as a renaissance man whose eclectic body of work has ricocheted from romanticism to the avant-garde. Lately, some thought he was becoming a mannered elder statesman. (City Pages)
Burlesque girls put sketchers on a learning curve Apr 8, 2007
She longed for romanticism and sexiness - what she describes as the "booze-and-hot-chicks fantasy" that led her to enrol in art school. Five years ago she set up Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School, a life drawing club where cabaret meets art school, and burlesque acts pose, scantily-clad and feathered. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Lyonel Feininger Exhibition Mar 28, 2007
Feiniger's distictive style forming a "multi-layered symbiosis between Romanticism, reality, and vision" is widely described as "Crystalline Cubism" for the particular, architecture-like sharpness of its forms. Feininger was born and died in New York City. (Suite101.com)
Technology Meets Fashion Mar 23, 2007
For Fall 2007, Thrive combines modernism and romanticism. Fabrications include silk chiffon, viscose/cotton/metallic satin, wool-cashmere gabardine, French lace, Italian sweater knits, and Japanese woolens. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Volatile romanticism, and two chestnuts from home Mar 19, 2007
This was highly muscular playing driven by a kind of volatile romanticism that ultimately proved persuasive for Jan cek's turbulent score. It was interesting to hear the group's unusual take on the iconic Dvorak "American" Quartet that followed. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Die Agyptische Helena Mar 17, 2007
The concept may have been to emphasize Hofmannsthal's variety of styles, but in performance, Fielding's mishmash works instead to deride not only the libretto but Strauss' lush, occasionally bombastic romanticism. Everybody calls her the most beautiful woman in the world. (Variety)
DISSENTING OPINIONS Mar 15, 2007
It s as if Loach abhors conventional dramatic development in order to resist bourgeois platitudes (including the romanticism of Neil Jordan s failed Irish epic Michael Collins). Damien and Teddy are only identified by what happens to them (medical student Damien is rushed into fighting, athlete Teddy is tortured by prison guards). (New York Press)
Mystery buyer nabs Whiteley for $1.5m Mar 14, 2007
Mr Newstead said Whiteley described his Lavender Bay works of the same period as "recording the glimpse seen at the highest point of affection - points of optical ecstasy, where romanticism and optimism overshadowed any form of menace and foreboding". Sotheby's is likely to trump the Whiteley sale on May 7 when it offers another of the artist's classics from his Lavender Bay days, Opera House. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Whiteley's $1.5 million harbour view Mar 14, 2007
Mr Newstead said Whiteley described his Lavender Bay works of the same period as "recording the glimpse seen at the highest point of affection - points of optical ecstasy, where romanticism and optimism overshadowed any form of menace and foreboding". Meanwhile, the surreal Russell Drysdale work, Red Landscape, sold for $1,000,080 tonight. (The Age)
'Beauty and the Beast' full of grace Mar 6, 2007
Instead of trying to adapt Georges Auric's score from Cocteau's film, Sund wisely turned to Tchaikovsky, whose dark-hued romanticism was well suited to his choreography. The ballet's music recorded rather than live was seamlessly stitched together from compositions including his Manfred Symphony, incidental music from Hamlet and, most powerfully, the searing string theme in the finale of the Symphony No. 6. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
