Category: france

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+ art, bible, france, jesus christ, religion

Artistic Depictions of Jesus’ Circumcision

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Recently, I took a trip to Lyon, at the confluence of the Rhône and Saône rivers, for a few days away from Paris. While there, I went to the Basilique of Notre Dame of Fourvière, where I saw two bas-reliefs of Cain murdering Abel and Cain’s expulsion. I found these interesting, of course, because I have seen numerous depictions of this biblical story during … Read More Artistic Depictions of Jesus’ Circumcision

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+ art, france, Leonora Carrington, mexico, surrealism, world war ii

The Art and Surrealism of Leonora Carrington

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A couple of years ago, I picked up Leonora Carrington’s Down Below, a memoir she details a psychotic break that she had, in 1940, as the invading Germany army took her partner, Max Ernst, to a concentration camp and she tried to flee across the Pyrenees into Spain. The memoir introduced me to Carrington, whom I had not heard of before, and later I … Read More The Art and Surrealism of Leonora Carrington

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+ art, Chaïm Soutine, france, museum exhibit, nikolai astrup, norway

Upon Discovering the Work of Chaïm Soutine

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When we lived in Bergen, Norway, I would occasionally go to the KODE Art Museums to see pieces by Edvard Munch and other Norwegian artists. During one of those visits, I encountered the work of Nikolai Astrup, a modernist painter from Kalvåg. Walking through the galleries, I came upon his 1920 painting entitled Marsmorgen (March Morning). This work stopped me because it depicts a tree, with … Read More Upon Discovering the Work of Chaïm Soutine

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+ ayad akhtar, Beyond the Door of No Return, david diop, france, Juan de Pareja, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Portrait of Juan de Pareja, Portrait of Madeline, senegal

The Ways We Experience Art in David Diop’s “Beyond the Door of No Return”

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Last year, I picked up David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black and devoured it in a single day. The novel details the experiences of Alfa Ndiaye, a Senegalese solider, during World War I, specifically as he fights for the French as a colonized subject. Diop’s novel grabbed me from the start and never let go, and after reading it, I knew that I wanted to read … Read More The Ways We Experience Art in David Diop’s “Beyond the Door of No Return”

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+ Ágota Kristóf, france, hungary, immigration, Literature, reading, refugee

Ágota Kristóf’s “The Illiterate” and the Loss of One’s Self

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A few days ago, as I am wont to do on occasion, I walked through the stacks at my local library, immediately making a line towards the French literature section. I did this, partly, because I had just read Michael Rothberg’s Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization and wanted to see if I could find some of the works by Didier Daeninckx, André Schwarz-Bart, and … Read More Ágota Kristóf’s “The Illiterate” and the Loss of One’s Self

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