Word: bacchuses
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...much for the Borrower of Avon. Falstaff calls himself an English Bacchus, and he is one - word-drunk but still thirsty, sloshing his language about, banging his mug for more. He gossips, slanders, tells randy jokes ancient even in the 15th century and borrows stories when he runs out of his own. Henry IV, he announces, "was something of an in somniac, and his struggles to get to sleep weren't much assisted by his habit of wearing his crown in bed." He claims to have seen Joan of Arc disguised as a deer. He talks of a blustering...
...from elaborate pastels like the 1738 portrait of Boy Holding a Carrot (which some critics argue is actually a parsnip) to swift crayon jottings of the nude. Collectors snapped up both his drawings and his rapid oil sketches, such as the vigorous and almost romantic Mercury Confiding the Infant Bacchus to the Nymphs...
...French to be slighted when it comes to printmaking. Nicolas Poussin, Edouard Manet, and Ingres point out the diversity of techniques within any nation of artists. Ingres, a noted draftsman, excels even the Dutch in precision of detail. Poussin still tells classic and mythological narratives (The Infant Bacchus Entrusted to the Nymphs), but Manet, one of the fathers of Impressionism concerned with the science of how the eye saw, sketches a woman, flattened, on photographic paper, perhaps borrowed from the great French photographer of the time, Nadar, whose studio housed the first Salon des Impressionistes...
Table Volcano. A big, burly man who looks like a scholarly truck driver or an agile Bacchus, Oldenburg is shy but not modest. "I am a magician," he says. "A magician brings dead things to life." His sculptures of food, for example. Typical, terrible American cuisine fascinates him, the kinds of things dieters like Oldenburg himself try to avoid: a wedge of pecan pie, a banana sundae, racks of assorted pastry, ice cream, cheeseburgers. Made of plaster, slathered with lush enamel paint, these goodies actually seem ready for the consumer's fork and spoon. But like four-color advertisements...
...philosophy was fin du monde. She was an earthly personification of Emily Dickinson's inebriate of air and debauchee of dew, stoned on life and art. In answer to the question, "What gods has mankind worshipped?" Dancer Isadora Duncan once replied: "Dionysus - yesterday. Christ - today. After tomorrow, Bacchus at last!" In short she was the quintessential bohemian, the ideal subject for a screen biography. The Loves of Isadora supplies the ideal object: Vanessa Redgrave, whose enactment of Duncan carries with it an exquisite sensitivity and a formidable intelligence...