Books & Artworks available from William Eaton
Comments and translation regarding the renaming of Marie-Guillemine Benoist’s “Portrait d’une négresse”, a.k.a. “Portrait de Madeleine.” This as regards the show “Le modèle noir de Géricault à Matisse” (Musée d’Orsay), earlier known as “Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today.” The comments also touch on Degas’s “Petite Danseuse” and work by Thomas Eakins, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, and the piece includes charcoal drawings by William Eaton.
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Erotic sweet potato drawings/watercolors, done in the manner of Rodin’s erotic drawings? With commentary that begins with John Stuart Mill on happiness, marriage and divorce, and includes a link for a recipe for duck breast (plus sweet potatoes, of course).
Read MoreWe ignore how our thinking—about feelings, bodily functions, friends, politics, what’s on the television— lets us down. I am not talking about the possibility that someone else—Sontag, say—might be smarter than I am or have more-incisive insights than I do. I am talking about thinking on a much more basic level: that a particular peach…
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Ah nudes. Here shown are just a very few of the drawings and paintings of nudes that William Eaton has been working on. These drawings and others can be purchased from the artist using the contact form below. See more images via Montaigbakhtinian.com.
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Parenting, Corporate Thievery, Aging, Technology, Ideals – one might easily feel overwhelmed. With a unique approach to the personal, the political and the intellectual, William Eaton’s essays keep asking: “How might we live?” Excerpts from Amazon 5-star reviews: “William Eaton thoughtfully and gracefully examines his experiences as father, wage earner, consumer, citizen, dreamer, ethicist. (Spoiler…
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A very few of the drawings and paintings that William Eaton has been working on. These drawings and others can be purchased from the artist using the contact form below. Many more images are visible at Montaigbakhtinian.com. After Picasso, Portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter, 1936 After Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) Untitled 1927, in the collection of…
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Inspired by Matisse of course. But also exploring, exploring . . . These and other works can be purchased from the artist using the contact form below. Many more images are visible at Montaigbakhtinian.com.
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