tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post7546452985665338773..comments2024-03-28T16:36:12.581-04:00Comments on Gurney Journey: Doré's Caricatures of CommunardsJames Gurneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01870848001990898499noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-72309250564845802512017-11-18T18:47:51.866-05:002017-11-18T18:47:51.866-05:00There's quite an equanimity here.
The way Dor...There's quite an equanimity here.<br /><br />The way Doré portraied these death-bound communards made me remember Hodler sketching his death-bound wife during her last fatal moments and thereafter.Richhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14233420155151875249noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-6826248971779877902017-11-18T16:56:27.541-05:002017-11-18T16:56:27.541-05:00Van Gogh loved Dore's work and even painted a ...Van Gogh loved Dore's work and even painted a homage to one of his engravings (http://art-vangogh.com/image/Saint%20Remy%20(1889-90)/121%20Prisoners%20Exercising%20after%20Dore.jpg).<br /><br />Dore is as good (and sometimes better) as Corot, Courbet, Delacroix and other such canonically recognized great painters of the period. But because he did mostly illustration work, didn't fit into the tastes of the time as a painter but wrote no artistic manifestos or founded separate schools he's unfairly marginalized by art history.<br /><br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08343246710302700368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2999230124118604245.post-80514464211714543142017-11-18T12:35:00.162-05:002017-11-18T12:35:00.162-05:00Almost Van Gogh... but, different. imho.Almost Van Gogh... but, different. imho.Lucillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13235929906697064015noreply@blogger.com