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Well I have had some setbacks ranging from personal/family, computer, and camera issues that have not allowed me to post. I did this picture as a tribute to all of those succes posters that say that each individual holds their fait/success in their hands.
'Madame X' or 'Portrait of Madame X' is a portrait of a young socialite, Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, wife of the French banker Pierre Gautreau. Madame X was painted not as a commission, but at the request of Sargent. It is a study in opposition. Sargent shows a woman posing in a black satin dress with jeweled straps, a dress that reveals and hides at the same time. The portrait is characterized by the pale flesh tone of the subject contrasted against a dark-colored dress and background.
The scandal resulting from the painting's controversial reception at the Paris Salon of 1884 amounted to a temporary setback to Sargent while in France, though it may have helped him later establish a successful career in Britain and America.
The model was an American French creole immigrant from New Orleans in Louisiana who married a French banker, twice her age, and became notorious in Parisian high society for her beauty and rumored infidelities. She wore lavender powder and prided herself on her appearance. She was referred to as a "professional beauty" – an English-language term for a woman who uses personal skills to advance herself socially. Her unconventional beauty made her an object of fascination for artists; the American painter Edward Simmons claimed that he "could not stop stalking her as one does a deer." Sargent was also impressed, and anticipated that a portrait of Gautreau would garner much attention at the upcoming Paris Salon, and increase interest in portrait commissions. He wrote to a friend:
"I have a great desire to paint her portrait and have reason to think she would allow it and is waiting for someone to propose this homage to her beauty. If you are 'bien avec elle' and will see her in Paris, you might tell her I am a man of prodigious talent."
Although she had refused numerous similar requests from artists, Gautreau accepted Sargent's offer in February 1883. Sargent was an expatriate like Gautreau, and their collaboration has been interpreted as motivated by a shared desire to attain high status in French society.
Immediate reactions to the painting were strongly negative. Sargent attended the opening of the Paris Salon's 1884 exhibition, at which Madame X (under the title Portrait de Mme ***) was first exhibited, along with Ralph Wormeley Curtis. Curtis wrote that "There was a grande tapage [mob] before it all day." While some artists praised Sargent's style, Curtis wrote that the general public reaction was overwhelmingly negative: "All the women jeer. Ah voilà 'la belle!' 'Oh quel horreur!' [Ah, here is 'beautiful!' 'Oh how awful!'] etc."
Shortly after the exhibition's opening, negative reviews began pouring in. The first, in L'Événement (a French newspaper), read:
"Mr. Sargent made a mistake if he thinks he expressed the shattering beauty of his model... . Even recognizing certain qualities that the painting has, we are shocked by the spineless expression and the vulgar character of the figure."
Similar reviews followed suit. Many focused on the perceived unattractiveness of the painting's subject, particularly in comparison to the reputation Gautreau (whose identity was only thinly veiled by the anonymity of the painting's title) had as a great beauty, and often focusing on her skin, which was described as "pallid" and "corpse-ish".
Others focused on the sexuality of the portrait. One critic for L'Artiste wrote, "Of all the undressed women at the Salon this year, the most interesting is Madame Gautreau ... because of the indecency of her dress that looks like it is about to fall off." The painting's standoffish promiscuity was lampooned. La Vie Parisienne published a caricature of Madame X, depicting Gautreau with her bosom exposed. The caption read: "Mélie, your dress is falling off!" "It's on purpose. ... And leave me alone anyway, won't you?"
Sargent was severely disappointed by the public reaction to Madame X. Ralph Curtis wrote of Sanger's reaction on the day of the exhibition's opening, "John, poor boy, was navré [heartbroken]." Gautreau, too, was distressed: "Mde. Gautreau and mère [mother] came to his studio 'bathed in tears.'" Gautreau's mother requested that Sargent withdraw the painting from the exhibition. Sargent refused, saying he had painted her "exactly as she was dressed, that nothing could be said of the canvas worse than had been said in print of her appearance". Later, Sargent overpainted the shoulder strap to raise it up and make it look more securely fastened. An unfinished version of the same pose, in which the position of the right shoulder strap remained unresolved, is in the Tate, London.
In 1916, Sargent sold the painting to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, writing to its director "I suppose it is the best thing I have ever done." The art world's changing response to the portrait was noted by the New York Herald in its May 12, 1916 headline: "Sargent Masterpiece Rejected by Subject Now Acquired by Museum." In 1960, Cuban-American fashion designer Luis Estévez created a dress based on the dress depicted in Madame X. Dina Merrill modeled the Estévez dress for photographer Milton H. Greene published in Life magazine on 11 January 1960.
The 1980s saw a renewed interest in Sargent's work. Today, Portrait of Madame X is Sargent's best-known work.
On Jan 29, I suffered a setback on my knee. I got a pain in my right knee again and it was bad that I could barely walk.
I went to the doctor on Feb 1 and he says I injured it again. He doesn't think its as serious as the first time, so I should recover from this sooner than later.
So for now, I am limited in my mobility, it hurts if I stand or walk for more than a few minutes.
With this setback, I've lost my motivation for keeping up with project 365, so I'll be taking a break. Hopefully, once I get to feeling much better, I'll restart it.
Despite the Fan Fest with bounce houses and face painting on the Brooks Robinson Plaza, Big Boy Brass Band, York Symphony Orchestra, and fireworks that would take place post game, Monday afternoon's contest was a quiet one offensively for the York Revolution who mustered just two hits in a 3-1 defeat to the Lancaster Barnstormers in front of 5,769 fans at PeoplesBank Park. Aside from a ninth inning homer by JC Encarnacion to avoid a shutout, the biggest highlight offensively belonged to Carlos Franco who drew a walk in the bottom of the seventh to reach base in a 46th consecutive game, setting a Revs franchise record by doing so.
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Poor little boys are back on both eye meds. But look, Eli made it to the top of the little cat tree! 100_0601c
I FINALLY finished knitting something. I had a major setback yesterday when I completely messed up and had to start over but, ta-da! This hat will more than likely go to the Pullip I plan to make a new outfit for. I have plenty of other yarn to make all my dolls a hat like this one so Alia won't go without for long. Sorry for the crap piciture. It's night and I used my phone. I plan to take more soon. XD
This Austrian Black Pine lost its crown in heavy snow (it snapped off). I'm curious to see how the vertical growth works when it's not primary from the central trunk.
My time spent outside tending the flowers and trees yields valuable metaphors.
Former University Club of Philadelphia, S 16th St & Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19102 (Grant Miles Simon : 1929)
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In late August my brother's John Deere Combine burst into flames. The culprit was a busted hydraulic hose. As of Sept. 23, the rusting hulk is still in the field awaiting salvage.
f you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream---and not make dreams your master;
If you can think---and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings---nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And---which is more---you'll be a Man, my son!
Rains, visa setbacks and a lack of transportation hampered us from getting Pam to the vets until Wednesday -- but something surprising happened during that time: She started sitting and squatting -- her regaining strength and the vet check finding no broken leg bones, has inspired us to hold off on surgery and to try a course of medicine along with rest to help her heal.
by navema
Tarrytown, NY
The Old Croton Aqueduct Trail, New York (160-year-old route)
The aqueduct reaches from the Croton Dam and reservoir in Westchester County all the way to 42nd Street in Manhattan, a distance of 41 miles. Almost 15 miles of the aqueduct lie within NYC, and about 5 miles are inside New York City parks. The Old Croton Aqueduct was engineered by John B. Jervis, who was also the engineer of the Erie Canal. It was built according to the same principles as ancient Roman aqueducts, and the water was conveyed along those 41 miles entirely by gravity.
Two days after the previous photograph, and heavy rain caused the river to rise and wash away about half of the coffer dam. One could say, that is what comes of trying to do it on the cheap, avoiding the use of driven piles!!
Defending democracy on the heels of Supreme Court setbacks on affirmative action and LGBTQ rights this week, fed-up activists and advocates take part in a We The People March starting at Oak Lawn Library in Dallas, Texas on Sunday, July 2, 2023. The Dallas march was one of six regional marches held over Independence Day weekend in conjunction with the We The People National March in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, where over 2,400 people from more than 70 organizations nationwide were expected to gather for the national march to also speak out and fight for people of color, women, LGBTQ+ communities, Jewish people, social justice, gun control and more. We The People is a growing coalition of citizens, groups and community leaders working to protect democracy and speak out against the nearly thousand bills authoritarian lawmakers and legislatures are introducing across the country that threaten basic freedoms and rights. (Richard W. Rodriguez/AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation)
Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks -- including death itself -- at the university's 114th Commencement on June 12, 2005.
A series of setbacks put us behind a day but finally we topped out today. Just a handful of small bars and we can go home. Yay!
Montgomery Co., Tn.
So my healing was moving along wonderfully. I was up and walking around with little to no pain. Everything was coming up Millhouse.
Not anymore. I was mowing my lawn today and slipped while trying to walk down a small grassy slope. My right foot shot out from underneath me and I couldn't get my left foot out of the way. I fell back and sat on my left foot, bending me knee back as far as a normal knee would go.
I don't have a normal knee.
My knee has not bent that far in nearly ten years. The pain was excruciating, the frustration was even worse. I don't think I did any permanent damage; I hope it is nothing more than ripping apart old scar tissue. I'll probably get it x-rayed tomorrow to be safe, but I'll also not be going to Michigan this weekend like we planned. Ten hours in a car would not be ideal.
Who knows? Maybe I'll show up for the Flickr meetup. But I'll be limping.
Former University Club of Philadelphia, S 16th St & Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19102 (Grant Miles Simon : 1929)
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Defending democracy on the heels of Supreme Court setbacks on affirmative action and LGBTQ rights this week, fed-up activists and advocates take part in a We The People March starting at Oak Lawn Library in Dallas, Texas on Sunday, July 2, 2023. The Dallas march was one of six regional marches held over Independence Day weekend in conjunction with the We The People National March in Ft Lauderdale, Florida, where over 2,400 people from more than 70 organizations nationwide were expected to gather for the national march to also speak out and fight for people of color, women, LGBTQ+ communities, Jewish people, social justice, gun control and more. We The People is a growing coalition of citizens, groups and community leaders working to protect democracy and speak out against the nearly thousand bills authoritarian lawmakers and legislatures are introducing across the country that threaten basic freedoms and rights. (Richard W. Rodriguez/AP Images for AIDS Healthcare Foundation)
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has killed people's leaders like Lalmohan Tudu, Sidhu Soren. Umakant adapt to the electoral arithmetic and dynamics of lndtan parliamentary .
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crime of 'Illegally entering Medinipur railway station'! When 300 political its armed agrarian struggle against the Indian state or the landlord .
prisoners held ademonstration inside the jail on that very day armies, and instead trained its guns primarily on the revolutionary forces .
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demanding immediate enquiry and punishment of the culprits and sat on after 1986-87. Unable to ideologically prevent the spread of the .
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reality of CPI(M)s self-proclaimed 'ideological-political struggle' against than hundred. Like any other par1iamentary party in India, they also .
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Maoism! When the same CPI(M) or SFI 'condemns' police atrocities, it started using their guns for winning electoral battles, and not for the .
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defense of the oppressed masses. As the last nail in their coffin of ,capable of. It was cnly by opposing, exposing and struggling against the .
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rev1ston1sm of CPI/CPI(M) that CPIML under the leadership of Charu with Nitish Kumar, the new poster boy of World Bank and IMF, Ram .
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Mazumdar could sow the seeds of revolution in India. Only after this Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party and even with social-fascist CPI(M). .
complete break with CPI(M) the communtst movement in India could Their opportunism knows no bounds when Liberation gives acall to .
make anew beg1nmng. And it is only by resolutely fighting and dislodge CPI(M) in the assembly elections of Bengal, and at the same thoroughly defeating the revisionism of CPI (M) and all variants of neo-breath have a 'seat-sharing arrangement' with CPI(M) in neighbouring revis1on1sm can the revolutionary movement in India move towards its Bihar! This trapeze art of Liberation to gamer votes in Bengal (and for final v1ctory. The struggle of the people of Bengalm general and that of AISA as in 2007 JNUSU elections) in the name of Tapasi Mallick and Jangal Mahal in part1cular will make sure that the bastion of CPI(M) will Rajkumar Bhul, it IS also permissible for them to have an alliance with .
be smashed in spite of its Operation Green Hunts, Operation Lalgarhs or their killers in Bihar. By the same logic of revisionist opportunism, rt is .
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classes waging adefensive war against this latest onslaught and to carry years back, Liberation has turned to its degenerated opposite .
forward the banner of re'tolution. Mo~t of them also recognize that the following a revisionist, political line while its leadership undergoing .
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time when the battle-lines are clearly drawn in this class struggle, it political journey with a complete break from the revisionist CPI(M), its .
appears at first sight that CPIML Liberation and its students wing AISA offshoot Liberation has now turned a full circle, ending up with the same .
are sandwiched between these two contending class forces. But there CPI(M). And the recent electoral alliance of CPI(M) and CPIML rr.
has never been amiddle-ground in the history of class struggle, nor Liberation is the reflection of a deeper unity of these two parties -they .
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party to sit on the fence But if CPI(M) and the revolutionary forces revolutionary movement. They stand ·together in the ongoing class .
struggle, and display similar contempt for the forces leading the .
guided by Maoism occupy two opposite poles in the class struggle today, oppressed masses of the country on the revolutionary path. As the .
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Despite weather related setbacks during construction, crews made up time and the event center and hotel opened as scheduled– in fact, the event center hosted its first event two weeks earlier than anticipated.
Former University Club of Philadelphia, S 16th St & Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19102 (Grant Miles Simon : 1929)
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John Hale, driver. This is a huge setback for a low budget team. Fortunately, the drag racing community help by donating hardware to get him back in the game. That's just another thing I love about drag racing. Fierce competition on track, compassion off track. Hats off to the men and women of the NHRA.
Built in 1922-1924, this Romanesque Revival-style skyscraper was designed by Murgatroyd and Ogden along with Fugard and Knapp to serve as the Allerton Hotel, and was the first building in Chicago to feature setbacks, as mandated by the 1923 zoning law. The building stands 25 stories and 360 feet (110 meters) tall, and housed over 1000 rooms, many of which were apartment style, and meant to serve as long-term accommodation for tenants, with one of the most notable early tenants being Louis Skidmore, whom founded the architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. The building also contained amenities, including a library, sports facilities, and a solarium. The 23rd floor of the tower housed the Tip Top Tap Lounge from the 1940s until 1961, which is still advertised on the building’s north and south facades, and later became home to the Cloud Room in 1963, and has served as the Renaissance Ballroom since the 1990s. The building is clad in limestone at the base, which extends up to the sill line of the fourth floor windows, with roman arched bays, brick panels around the third floor windows, with gothic arches and trim at the first and second floor bays. Above the fourth floor sill line, the building is clad in red brick, with pilasters at the corners and between window bays between the fourth and eighteenth floors, with setbacks at the nineteenth floor, and chamfered corners at the corner towers above the nineteenth floor, arched windows at the 22nd and 23rd floors, balconies with machicolations at the 22nd floor, and hipped roofs, with the central tower rising an additional two stories above the corner towers, featuring signs mounted to the north and south facades, and an octagonal tower containing a chimney in the middle of the roof. The building was designated as a Chicago Landmark in 1998, and underwent a major renovation in 1998-1999 under the direction of Eckenhoff Saunders Architects, modernizing the hotel rooms and building systems, and restoring significant common areas within the building. The hotel reopened as the Allerton Crowne Plaza Hotel, remaining under the Crowne Plaza banner until after the building was sold in 2006, becoming The Allerton Hotel in 2007. The building underwent renovations around this time, and underwent more renovations after being sold in 2014, and is today known as the Warwick Allerton Hotel.
NEWARK, Del. (Sept. 27, 2008) - Coming off a disappointing setback a week earlier and with the memory of an upset lost to Albany two seasons ago still in their minds, Delaware made sure of the outcome this time. Backed by a defense that allowed just 150 total yards and a 60-yard interception return for a touchdown by Tyrone Grant, the No. 17 ranked Blue Hens dominated the second half and cruised to a 38-7 victory over Albany Saturday night. Kervin Michaud with the ball.
After changing the saddle to have more setback, saddle height was slightly raised as well as stem w/handlebars were lowered, altogether getting the bike nearer to an ideal fit.
Handlebars with a touring bend (to raise grip a bit) and GB Superhood brake levers are coming in the next step.
Former University Club of Philadelphia, S 16th St & Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19102 (Grant Miles Simon : 1929)
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Despite the Fan Fest with bounce houses and face painting on the Brooks Robinson Plaza, Big Boy Brass Band, York Symphony Orchestra, and fireworks that would take place post game, Monday afternoon's contest was a quiet one offensively for the York Revolution who mustered just two hits in a 3-1 defeat to the Lancaster Barnstormers in front of 5,769 fans at PeoplesBank Park. Aside from a ninth inning homer by JC Encarnacion to avoid a shutout, the biggest highlight offensively belonged to Carlos Franco who drew a walk in the bottom of the seventh to reach base in a 46th consecutive game, setting a Revs franchise record by doing so.
LockedIN Magazine photographer Rick "Beetle" Bailey of @bbphotographer58 and @MyMidAtlantic was at the ball park to keep our fans LockedIN.
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