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Tritton AX720 Review
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Ice Cream: The Delicious History-Book Review
In the White House what was often on the menu that George Washington was wild about and Presidents Madison, Andrew Jackson, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon would not do without? The answer is ice cream, without a doubt. Ice cream was also declared “morale food” by the US army during World War I. These tidbits of information I learned from Marilyn Powell’s book, “Ice Cream: The Delicious History.”
Powell must have a true passion for ice cream to have gone to such great lengths to bring her readers the history and the legends of ice cream with so much enthusiasm. The book is as tasteful as the frozen dessert of cream, sugar, and eggs most of us enjoy, and the author’s writing style is not frozen at all, but warm, animated, and engaging.
The history of ice cream is universal, and it starts with the oldest of times, Biblical maybe, when snow was a precious item and people collected it. There were ice pits in ancient Britain dating to Iron Age. Then in old Greece, Hippocrates, father of medicine, warned people against eating it, because the stuff suddenly threw “the body into a different state,” but people ate it anyway. Even Marco Polo might have seen it sold on the streets in China.
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, stern Europeans had to be cajoled to let the cold stuff enter into their bodies, since most illnesses were blamed on the ice cream. Yet, convincing the Europeans proved not to be too difficult, given the flavor of the dessert.
Elaborating on the stories of ice cream and its variations like the banana split, Powell carries the history of the dessert through Europe and the United States to Andy Warhol‘s ice cream cone paintings to our day.
To adorn all these embellished facts, “Ice Cream: The Delicious History” has delightful drawings of old ice-cream makers and contraptions, old and new ice cream recipes, President Jefferson’s Vanilla Ice Cream recipe, and another one for the Black Cow Soda.
According to the book’s publisher, the author, Marilyn Powell has taught at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. An award-winning writer, broadcaster, and producer, her work has been published in Saturday Night, The Canadian Forum, and Books in Canada. Her short stories have appeared in Toronto Short Stories and Aurora III. Powell has a Ph.D. in English literature from Harvard University.
The book is in hardcover with 256 pages and ISBN: 1585677973.
It is quite fitting to end this article with Powell’s own words in the epilogue. “Ice cream is a pleasure, a triumph, a treasure of invention. As Voltaire is said to have remarked, ‘Ice Cream is exquisite. What a pity it isn’t illegal.”
Enjoy the book. I did.
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A Review of Andy Warhol Pictures
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Decades ago Andy Warhol pictures were a real revolution to the world of art. All the important aspects of our culture have been more or less shaped in his pictures and that’s a fact whether you love him or hate him (and most people either do the first or the second). Pop art would never have done what it has already if it wasn’t for Andy Warhol and his pictures. He was way ahead of his time and helped define the genre.
The first pictures, in which people can actually see that the fame of the artist and his status, along with the work of art, presented as a fetish cult status are far more important than the work itself, were the ones of Andy Warhol. His pictures are also the first place where people can find synthesized and differentiated high and low art. Artistic appreciation of the popular culture presented as a thing not less worthy of administration than any other culture coming before or after is shown in Andy Warhol pictures more than in the works of any other artist before him.
Andy Warhol posters were hanging all over my room when I was in college. Actually the first Andy Warhol picture I saw ever saw was the cover of the first album of a popular at this time group called the Velvet Underground. The picture itself was one of his most famous ones – the picture of a banana which you’ve probably seen lots of times virtually everywhere. I can admit that I discovered the pictures of Andy Warhol just because The Velvet Underground were big fans of his and I on my turn was one of the biggest they had.
I can never deny originality of Andy Warhol, even not being such a fanatic about him anymore. Some people find it strange to call original a person who during his entire life did nothing else but copied other people’s works, but I still think he was real genius. Most people don’t ever consider that such works like advertising works could be called art, at least till they see an Andy Warhol picture. After that people’s eyes do change and this is enough to prove that there is some real value in Andy Warhol. And even if he blew my mind when I first saw his pictures in college, I don’t think he could be called an ill wind as in the saying “it is an ill wind that blows no mind”.
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A Bad Review Gave the Impressionists Their Famous Name!
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Claude Monet is perhaps the most famous of the Impressionists. But how did they get that name?
In 1874, there were strict standards for works hung in the official Paris Salon. They had to be classically painted, perfectly aligned and glass-smooth with no brush strokes – almost photographic. A group of artists who had a different style of painting had often been rejected by the Salon. Their art went in a different direction. It embodied small, fast, colorful brush strokes that gave merely the essence, the “impression,” of the subject. They decided to exhibit their works in an independent show. And their first show got a bad review.
Edouard Manet started the whole “Impressionist” art movement, although it wasn’t called Impressionism at that time. Manet’s work in the 1860′s greatly influenced Claude Monet and other artists.
The principal Impressionist painters who worked together and influenced each other were:
Claude Monet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Camille Pissaro
Alfred Sisley
Berthe Morisot
Armand Guillaumin
Frederic Bazille
Edgar Degas and Paul Cezanne also painted in an Impressionist style for a time.
These artists shared new approaches to art. They each had their own style, but generally they liked painting outdoors (called “en plein air”) with fast, short brush strokes. They thought this better captured the general “impression” of the scene.
The Paris Salon was the official art exhibition of the Academie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. From 1748-1890 it was the chief art event in the Western world. The Salon had accepted the works of some of these painters, but often they were rejected or poorly situated if accepted at all. So in 1874 several artists decided to have an independent exhibition of the works the Salon had refused.
The exhibition took place in April 1874, in the salon of the photographer Nadar.
Claude Monet hung his painting of a sunrise, called “Impression, soleil levant” or “Impression, sunrise.” It was painted with visible brush strokes, using the technique of broken color to give a visual sensation of light.
Art critic Louis Leroy ridiculed the show, using the title of Monet‘s piece as the title of his hostile review, “The Exhibition of the Impressionists.” He wrote:
“Impression – I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it… and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.”
Although intended as a derogatory remark, the term “Impressionism” was adopted by the artists themselves. The Impressionists were radicals at the time who now had a name for their new art movement.
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