#eugene boch

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Vincent van Gogh

Eugène Boch (The Poet Against a Starry Sky)

1888

(Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

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Are you familiar with the fact that Vincent van Gogh was only able to sell two paintings during his lifetime? The Belgian impressionist artist Anna Boch was the person that bought them!

Saw the Anna Boch show in the Ostend museum today.

Gives a smashing overview of her work but also shows some work by painters she was in contact with - the pointillist Paul Signac, Paul Gauguin and James Ensor.

Her brother Eugene Boch made a world famous portrait of van Gogh. (I even saw a letter that Theo van Gogh had written Eugene.)

Or maybe you know the luxury dinnerware brand Villeroy & Boch? Her family started the ceramics company...

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Alpha Flight #25

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From Alpha Flight Vol. 5 #005, “Divided We Stand: Part Five”

Art by Scott Godlewski, David Cutler and Matt Milla

Written by Ed Brisson

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i'm sorry i'm obsessed with the fact that heather went to take a bath and michael is feeling understandably depressed about elizabeth, so without supervision everyone started fucking around with a giant fishing rod to get wanda a proper body. what.

ALPHA FLIGHT vol 1 #28: "CROSS-OVER!" written & drawn by john byrne (the last of his run on the series)

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The Canadian Characters of Marvel Comics picspam

1st pic = Wolverine (James 'Logan' Howlett)

2nd pic = Guardian (James MacDonald Hudson)

3rd pic = Vindicator (Heather McNeil Hudson)

4th pic = Aurora (Jeanne-Marie Beaubier)

5th pic = Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier)

6th pic = Sasquatch (Walter Langkowski)

7th pic = Shaman (Michael Twoyoungmen)

8th pic = Snowbird (Narya)

9th pic = Puck (Eugene Judd)

10th pic = Marrina (Marrina Smallwood)

11th pic = Talisman (Elizabeth Twoyoungmen)

12th pic = Box II (Madison Jeffries)

13th pic = Diamond Lil (Lillian Crawley Jeffries)

14th pic = Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)

15th pic = Flex (Adrian Corbo)

16th pic = Radius (Jared Corbo)

17th pic = Murmur (Arlette Truffaut)

18th pic = Major Mapleleaf (Louis Edmond Sadler Jr) and his flying horse, Thunder

19th pic = Puck II (Zuzha Yu)

20th pic = Nemesis (Amelia Weatherly)

21st pic = Yukon Jack (Yukotujakzurjimozoata)

22nd pic = Persuasion (Kara Killgrave)

23rd pic = Windshear (Colin Ashworth Hume)

24th pic = Somnus (Carl Valentino)

25th pic = Snowguard (Amka Aliyak)

26th pic = Box (Roger Bochs)

27th pic = Manikin (Whitman Knapp)

28th pic = Squid Boy (Sammy Paré)

29th pic = Goblyn (Goblyn Dean)

30th pic = Deadpool (Wade Wilson)

HAPPY CANADA DAY!

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010. The Red Vineyard (1888)

The Red Vinyard is an oil painting by Vincent Van Gogh and is the only painting known by the name that Vincent Van Gogh sold. It was initially sold for 400 francs to Belgian painter and collector Anna Boch, a member of Les XX. Les XX was a group of twenty Belgian painters, designers, and sculptors. This organization was formed in 1883 by Octave Maus. Anna Boch also happened to be Eugene Boch's sister, an impressionist painter and long-time friend of Vincent Van Gogh. Later, the painting was purchased in 1909 from a Paris art gallery, and it was eventually passed to Moscow's Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, where it lives today. 

The painting depicts a vineyard with workers harvesting crops and uses vibrant, saturated colors, giving the scene a sense of warmth. Van Gogh used bold brushstrokes and thick layers of paint to create texture and movement, making a rhythmic composition appealing to the eye despite the lively, bold subject matter. There is a sense of intensity in the painting, which many art historians believe could mirror Van Gogh's struggles with mental health. 

My big takeaway from this painting is the intensity of the vibrant colors. In my work, I struggle to find balance with color, often opting for grayscale or merely black and white. The way Gogh uses intense colors inspires me to use bold colors in my work and play around with making larger bolder movements in my piece. I am also inspired by how Gogh uses movement to elevate his piece. 

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Eugène Boch, (The Poet Against a Starry Sky), 1888, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Vincent van Gogh

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Alpha gets its first Annual... it is... not super good... also I’m surprised this book went 40 issues before they gave it an Annual.

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I’ll start with a traditional French coffeehouse and the story of a Mexican surrealist artist.

A young English debutant who fled her nouveux riche family to pursue art and a love affair with Max Ernst in Paris, then Mexico, Leonora Carrington became a famed artist in the Surrealist circle; the art movement that steers away from rationality and unflinchingly explores human dreams and subconscious. Frequently described as a muse of the Surrealist movement a lot of Leonora’s own talent and work has previously been overcast by her relationship with Ernst but She’s my newly discovered muse, a reminder of the exciting stories that follow an imaginative and headstrong mind.

Leonora Carrington with Max Earnst, 1937. Photo, Lee Miller

I warn you, I refuse to be an object.

In March, I went to the beautiful Café de Flore, where Leonora was once shoulder to shoulder with Ernst, Duchamp, Picasso and Breton. The crowd included “Man Ray, Paul Eluard, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miró, and was led by André Breton… [Carrington] remembers: “There weren’t many parties, but we used to meet at cafés and discuss everything.”

This love letter to Carrington’s rebellion introduces my adventure in Paris’ decadent art scene. Starting with a romantic coffee date at Café de Flore and a stroll around the Musée d’Orsay, then switching spectrums to explore Palais de Tokyo and Space Invader.

You’re desperate to be rational. And you’ll never understand the world that way.

Leonora Carrington to her cousin, Joanna Moorhead, Sunday Times Magazine, March  2017

Giles had to drag me past the florists on almost every street corner

Un coin d’appartement, Claude Monet

Musée d’Orsay

With the advice of my French housemate, Constance, Giles and I chose to spent hours and hours in the Musée d’Orsay.

Sérénité, Henri Martin

Roses et anemones, Vincent Van Gogh

Portrait de Madame M, Henri Rousseau

Le Douanier, Henri Rousseau

I love taking a naive circuit of a gallery room, taking note of my immediate preferences and then re-assessing these once I’ve read about the artist and their story. The two paintings above are both Henri Rousseau. I was really drawn to his style and only retrospectively did I realise that both of these favourites are his work.

Eugène Boch, Vincent Van Gogh

This ginormous orb is another one of my favourites from the museum’s collection of Van Gough portraits. Eugène Boch looks like an eerie haloed moon man and I’m addicted to this colour palette. I referenced this ochre colour in a freelance SS/17 trend forecast, back in January, and I’ve been longing after wardrobe updates like these Van Gogh Sunflower yellow heels, and the amazing warm yellow climes that blogger Lucy Williams has been exploring.

I should like to paint the portrait of an artist friend, a man who dreams great dreams… Behind his head, instead of painting the ordinary wall of this shabby apartment, I will paint infinity, I will do a simple background of the richest blue, the most intense blue that I can create, and through this simple combination of the bright head against this rich, blue background, I will obtain a mysterious effect, like a star in the depths of an azure sky.”

Vincent van Gogh, about Eugène Boch

Palais de Tokyo

Quite the contrast from the paintings and sculptures in the Musée d’Orsay, the Palais de Tokyo was theatrical, satirical and puzzling.

The headline act for the gallery was Abraham Poincheval, the performance artist causing headlines such as, “French artist living inside a rock surrounded by excrement: ‘I feel completely at ease'”. The artist’s story seems to be one of extreme introspection, a sort of phenomenological experiment.

We are already locked into our own bodies”

Abraham Poincheval

Taro Izumi recreates sporting stars’ famous moments in tableaux films and plinth-like structures

Taro Izumi is an installation artist, parodying our adoration for celebrities and toying with our ideas of ordinary and absurd, perhaps a comment on contemporary art itself.

exhibition: “Tickled in a Dream”

Space Invader, inside Palais de Tokyo

Space Invader

Giles and I snapped sightings of Space Invader all over Paris, as well as inside the walls of Palais de Tokyo. In Banksy’s ‘Exit through the gift shop’ documentary, there’s a really interesting story about the forerunners in graffiti art, with Space Invader as a key influencer. It’s a typically idiosyncratic and anarchist commentary from Banksy on ‘being an artist’ and it’s a seriously good watch.

Paired with CityMapper, an essential, Sift Guide is a great website for navigating the best independent eateries in Paris (and across Europe), run by a friend in Bristol. I followed their recommendation to Chez Prune on Canal St Martin, an area filled with street art and artsy book shops. It was the perfect bar to drink and people watch before catching the Eurostar home.

Off all the galleries in Paris, I started with Café de Flore and ended with Space Invader. Let me know what I missed!

xoxo

Of all the galleries in Paris I'll start with a traditional French coffeehouse and the story of a Mexican surrealist artist. A young English debutant who fled her nouveux riche family to pursue art and a love affair with Max Ernst in Paris, then Mexico, Leonora Carrington became a famed artist in the Surrealist circle; the art movement that steers away from rationality and unflinchingly explores human dreams and subconscious. 

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Paul Serusier, The Talisman, the Aven at the Bois d'Amour, 1888, oil on panel (left)

Pierre Bonnard, The White Cat, 1894, oil on board (right)

Edouard Vuillard, The Reader (Portrait of K.-X. Roussel), 1890, oil on board (left)

Edouard Vuillard, Profile of a Woman in a Green Hat, 1891, oil on board (right)

Odilon Redon, The Sleep of Caliban, 1895-1900, oil on panel (left)

Vincent Van Gogh, Eugene Boch or The Poet, 1888, oil on canvas (right)

Sourced: Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musee D'Orsay, ed. Cogeval, Guy, Sylvie Patry amd Stephane Guegan, DelMonico Books, 2010.

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Stream: Death Cab for Cutie Announce New Album, Thank You for Today, and Share New Track “Gold Rush”

Death Cab for Cutie have announced their latest album, entitled Thank You for Today. The 10-track record will be their ninth studio full-length and will be available on August 17th via Atlantic Records.

Thank You for Today brings DCFC together again with the producer of their 2015 Grammy-nominated record Kintsugi, Rich Costey, who has also worked with Fiona Apple and Muse. The album is also the band’s first studio effort to feature new members Dave Depper (Menomena, Ray Lamontagne) and Zac Rae (My Brightest Diamond, Fiona Apple), who have toured with the group as far back as 2015.

In addition to the album announcement, Death Cab have dropped a new single, “Gold Rush”. The track has a colorful and surreal vibe in contrast to the band’s typical indie pop-rock energy, which obviously comes forth from the sample of Yoko Ono’s “Mind Train” which forms the foundation of the track. While voices repeat the song title throughout, Ben Gibbard sings a “requiem for a skyline,” a sorrowful ode to modernization and gentrification. The music video Director, Alex Southam, spotlights the sentiment by filming Gibbard as he walks by pedestrians. As their clothes become more modern, their population increases until Gibbard is consumed by an ocean of cell-phone facing people. Check it out below.

Death Cab for Cutie are due to perform “Gold Rush” on the June 21st episode of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Find the album’s tracklist below.

Thank You for Today Tracklist: 01. I Dreamt We Spoke Again 02. Summer Years 03. Gold Rush 04. Your Hurricane 05. When We Drive 06. Autumn Love 07. Northern Lights 08. You Moved Away 09. Near/Far 10. 60 & Punk

Death Cab have also lengthened their fall tour in support of the new record. In addition to a free concert on June 23rd to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Seattle’s iconic The Paramount venue, new shows have been added to Philadelphia and Boston. Find the complete schedule below, and buy tickets here.

Death Cab for Cutie 2018 Tour Dates: 06/16 – Amstelveen, NL @ Amsterdamse Bos Theater 06/18 – London, UK @ Robert Smith’s Meltdown Festival 06/19 – London, UK @ Scala 06/23 – Seattle, WA @ The Paramount 08/02 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre 08/03 – Boise, ID @ Summerfield at Memorial Stadium 08/04-05 – Missoula, MT @ Travelers’ Rest Festival 08/11 – San Diego, CA @ 91X X-Fest 08/12 – Long Beach, CA @ ALT 98.7 Summer Camp 09/21 – Las Vegas, NV @ Life is Beautiful Festival 09/24 – Eugene, OR @ Hult Center for the Performing Arts 09/25 – Portland, OR @ Keller Auditorium 09/27 – Berkeley, CA @ Greek Theatre Berkeley 09/29 – Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren 10/01 – Dallas, TX @ Bomb Factory 10/02 – Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre 10/03 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee 10/05 – St. Paul, MN @ Palace Theatre 10/07 – Chicago, IL @ Auditorium Theatre 10/09 – Upper Darby, PA @ Tower Theatre 10/10 – Upper Darby, PA @ Tower Theatre 10/12 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre 10/13 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre 10/14 – Boston, MA @ Boch Wang Theatre 10/15 – Boston, MA @ Boch Wang Theatre 10/17 – Washington, DC @ Anthem 10/18 – Charlottesville, VA @ Sprint Pavilion 10/19 – Atlanta, GA @ Coca Cola Roxy 10/20 – St. Augustine, FL @ St. Augustine Amphitheatre 10/22 – Miami, FL @ The Fillmore Miami Beach 10/23 – Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live 11/10 – Santiago, CH @ Fauna Primavera 11/11 – Buenos, Aires, AR @ Personal Fest 11/15 – Sao Paulo, BR @ Popload Festival 11/18 – Mexico City, MX @ Corona Capital

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Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, painted by the Belgian artist Eugene Boch, brother of Anna Boch.

Saw it up close today in the Anna Boch art show in Ostend (Belgium)!

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Alpha Flight #29

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From Alpha Flight Vol. 5 #003, “Divided We Stand: Part Three”

Art by Scott Godlewski and Matt Milla

Written by Ed Brisson

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Happy belated Birthday to John Doe of X, playing here at The Mudd Club, 1980. Photo: Eugene Merinov We have signed copies of The Mudd Club book by Richard Boch available in store or at thecast.com Get on it! #JohnDoe #X #TheMuddClub #NewYorkCity @muddclub_book @theejohndoe (at The Cast NYC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLwnfACFi__/?igshid=10sbqrcm646c3