Theodore roosevelt video biography of blaise
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OPEN-AIR TOTEMS BY JULIEN MARINETTI
In collaboration with the Comité du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
From 27 April to 4 June 2021, the artist Julien Marinetti is exhibiting his monumental works on the Place de la Concorde, Rue Royale and Place Maurice Barrès in Paris.
At a time when art galleries and museums are closed, the artist invites you, through his four pictorial totems, to reflect on the current challenges facing us and to contemplate what he likes to call the “syncretism of Art”, i.e. a complete three-dimensional work, at once sculpture, painting and engraving.
Chat Bastet
200 x 140 x 110cm
Bronze and acrylic, engraved, painted and lacquered
Place de la concorde
CHAT BASTET – In front of the Luxor obelisk stands the sculpture in homage to the daughter of the god Ra, “Bastet”, a deity as discreet as she is important in the Egyptian pantheon. Goddess of maternity and fertility, protector of pregnant women and children, this majestic and powerful female figure of Antiquity reminds us that despite her nature, Bastet remains a feline goddess. Capable of going from true gentleness to great cruelty when her anger is aroused: the cat becomes a lioness. This bronze totem, engraved and then painted, wants to teach us patienc
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People/Characters Theodore Roosevelt
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Teddy’s Taste
THE HISTORY OF THE ARTISTIC relations between America and Europe around the turn of the century is a tissue of clichés. Perhaps the most recalcitrant of these holds that, probably until the Armory Show of 1913, and surely at least until Alfred Stieglitz began to show modern European art in New York in 1908, this country was devoid of attitudes at all conducive to Post–Impressionistic developments and was simply ignorant of modernism in painting. I want to take up a single strand of this problem now, the way in which Theodore Roosevelt responded to the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” as the Armory Show styled itself, and what his own esthetics were like.
What is it about Roosevelt that makes us smile? He has become the victim of a humiliating stereotype. Over the last half century the Silent Majority has taken T.R. to heart, reading what he wrote, perpetuating a few attitudes and poses that were never meant to be more than electioneering, and building in its mind the ideal of a chummy and––as Americans say, intending praise––ordinary guy. Teddy, as he hated to be called, was nothing of the sort. This man, who would probably never have invited Lyndon Johnson to dinner, let alone resembled him in any