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Turtledoves

27 Saturday Oct 2018

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Edvard Grieg, Jean-Marc, Margaret, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Thérèse, Wedding

Spring Bouquet by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1866 Fogg Museum (Harvard Art Museums), Cambridge, MA, US

Jean-Marc, the somewhat timid groom below, was Jean-Pierre’s best friend. He flew to Quebec for Jean-Pierre’s funeral.

Jean-Marc married my sister Thérèse. They had lovely girls: Danielle, Anne and Dominique. We lost Dominique, but Danielle and Anne are fine. As for Thérèse, she died of septic shock ten years ago. She and Jean-Marc lived in British Columbia.

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Ten years later

Last summer, Jean-Marc remarried. His bride is the widow of a friend he lost to a plane crash. Jean-Marc also had a plane, but did not use it after his friend’s fatal crash. He therefore met his new bride when they were much younger. Destiny brought then together again. Her name is Marguerite.

Jean-Marc was an excellent husband to my sister and he will be an excellent husband to his second wife. He sold the house where he and Thérèse had lived and moved to his bride’s townhouse. It’s a brand new life.

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I met Jean-Marc before Jean-Pierre brought him to our house. I went to a figure-skating show. Jean-Marc was the fellow who came from one end of the skating rink, gained speed, and jumped over several barrels, landing gently.

If my memory serves me well, barrels were added twice. He would therefore skate back to his starting position, entertaining the crowd, and jump over the barrels again, landing gently.

He and my sister were turtledoves and I think it’s happening again. Often, the second marriage is better than the first. Jean-Marc needed a companion. In my opinion, he’s found an angel.

I wish them both every happiness.

Love to everyone 💕

Edvard Grieg Wedding Day at Troldhaugen, Op. 65
Aaron Dyer

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Édouard Manet: Enigmas

17 Monday Jun 2013

Posted by michelinewalker in Art

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Édouard Manet, Bar at the Folies-Bergère, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Gustave Courbet, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Salon

Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, by Édouard Manet, 1863

Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, by Édouard Manet (1862-1863)

Although future critics may think differently, Édouard Manet‘s (23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) Déjeuner sur l’herbe, The Luncheon on the Grass, (c. 1863) may well have changed the course of the history of European art, mainly French.  It is a representational, à la Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819 – 31 December 1877), rather than an abstract painting.  However, it ushered in a revolution.

Le Salon & Le Salon des Refusés   

Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe could not be shown at the Salon  (founded in 1725), the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts.  It was rejected by Academicians Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) and Adolphe-William Bougereau (30 November 1825 – 19 August 1905).  Manet therefore showed it at the Salon des refusés.  Ironically, history was very kind to rejected artists, les refusés. 

Avant-garde artists had to settle for the Salons des refusés, which was somewhat of a blessing.  Persons who own works by Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Claude Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassat, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin etc. were shrewd investors.  Americans loved the Impressionists, and other Modernistes.  The shrewder investors bought a Vincent van Gogh or a Pablo Picasso.

You may remember that Gertrude Stein and her brother Leon Stein bought Matisse’s Woman with a Hat, showed at the 1905 Salon d’automne, a new Salon, established in 1903.  Matisse was described as a Fauviste, a wild beast, but he didn’t coin the term.  This was “du nouveau,”  (something new), to quote French poet Charles Baudelaire.  Matisse used unusually bold colours.  The Cone sisters were also in Paris at the time.  These wealthy American socialites could afford artworks.

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The Fifer, by Manet, 1866

Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe: an element of Magical Realism

Novelty made Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe a painting Academicists would reject.  It featured a nude woman sitting with two fully dressed men and sharing a luncheon.  Nudes had long entered the Fine Arts, but not in such a manner.  The nude figure does not seem to fit the painting.  But it could fit the imagination of the gentlemen sitting next to her as well as Manet’s imagination.  It could also be a reference or a reminiscence: art within art.  There is in Manet an element of magical realism, a characteristic of Latin American literature.  According to Professor Matthew Strecher, magical realism is “what happens when a highly detailed, realistic setting is invaded by something too strange to believe.”[i]

Manet’s Bar at the Folies-Bergère is also enigmatic.  Just where is the man?  Furthermore, I wonder whether or not the mirror reflects the woman.  Manet was accused of not knowing perspective, which does not make much sense.  (See A Bar at the Folies-Bergères, Wikipedia.)  But the newness of the painting may be the depiction of the young woman who seems a foreigner.  Her eyes display a kind of bewilderment.  The painting could be a depiction of Marxist alienation.  The painting was shown at the Paris Salon, in 1882, at a later date than Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe (1862-1863).

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Un Bar aux Folies Bergère, by Édouard Manet, 1882 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

One of my former teachers writes that “[i]n each case Manet takes a ‘standard’ Reality, not only as to content, but also as to form.”[ii]  Professor Gowans also states that Manet was teaching other painters and that his work is therefore “didactic.”  As for the public, they were not a factor.

Also enigmatic is Manet’s Olympia, shown at the 1865 Paris Salon.  But it will not be discussed today.

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[i] Matthew C. Strecher, “Magical Realism and the Search for Identity in the Fiction of Murakami Haruki,” Journal of Japanese Studies, Volume 25, Number 2 (Summer 1999), pp. 263-298, at 267.

[ii] Alan Gowans, The Restless Art, A History of Painter and Painting 1760-1960 (Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1966), p. 190.

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Micheline Bourbeau-Walker: Publications

02 Thursday May 2013

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Articles :
2002.
« La Patrie littéraire : errance et résistance », Francophonies d’Amérique.
http://www.erudit.org/revue/fa/2002/v/n13/1005247ar.pdf
 
1998.
« Le Récit d’Acadie : présence d’une absence »,  in Les Abeilles pillotent, 255-275. Université Saint-Anne, Pointe-de-l’Église, Nouvelle-Écosse, .
 
1988. 
« Le Misanthrope, ou la comédie éclatée »,  in David Trott and Nicole Boursier, eds., L’Âge du théâtre en France/ The Age of Theatre in France, 53-61. Edmonton: Academic Printing and Publishing.
 
1984. 
« L’Échec d’Arnolphe : loi du genre ou faille intérieure? » Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, 11, No. 20: 79-92.
 
1984.                
« Le Poids de l’histoire : à la recherche d’une pédagogie. »  The Canadian Modern Language Review/La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes, 40, No. 2: 218-227. 
Rpt. in Mosaïque (APFUCC [Association of Canadian University and College Teachers of French], 1984).
Rpt. in Courrier “F” (Ghent, Belgium : Société belge des professeurs de français 2e et 3e langue, 1985).
 
1981.
« Tartuffe : masques, machines et machinations. »  In Actes du XXIVe congrès annuel de l’APFUCC, 491-508.  APFUCC/Signum, 1981.     
 
Edited Books :
 
1988. 
Mosaïque III : tendances et pratiques actuelles en didactique du français langue seconde.  APFUCC. 
1986. 
Mosaïque II : tendances et pratiques actuelles en didactique du français langue seconde.  APFUCC.
1984. 
Mosaïque : tendances et pratiques actuelles en didactique du français langue seconde.  APFUCC.
 
Edited Section of Journal:
 
1984.  
« Molière et la nouvelle critique. »  In Papers on French Seventeenth-Century Literature, 11, No. 20: 11-92.
 
Lectures:
 
2001.
 
« Renart : éloquence d’un silence, silence d’une éloquence. »
2001 meeting of the International Reynard Society, Hull, England.
 
2001.
French-Canadian Literature (in French), University of Stuttgart, Germany.
English-Canadian Literature (in English), University of Stuffgart, Germany. 
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A Bouquet of Roses, by Renoir

A Bouquet of Roses, by Renoir

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Current Events in Quebec, Renoir & Gluck

05 Tuesday Jun 2012

Posted by michelinewalker in Canada, Music

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CBC News: http://www.cbc.ca/news/
CTV News: http://montreal.ctv.ca/
 
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Le Devoir: http://www.ledevoir.com/
La Presse: http://www.lapresse.ca/
 
 
Bouquet of Roses, by Renoir (1879)
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