Rachel KellyNovember 07 You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed Portrait of Frances and Eva Jonhston (detail; 1869) William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s highly polished, sentimental paintings were stars of the Paris Salon in the late 19th century, and much sought-after by American collectors. This show looks at the reasons for the artist’s tremendous popularity and later falling out of fashion. Find out more from the Milwaukee Art Museum’s website. Preview the exhibition below | See Apollo’s Picks of the Week here Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Bouguereau has come to encapsulate our image of artistic taste in America in the second half of the 19th century he was one of the most desirable living artists for US collectors – when he died in 1905 an obituary observed that ‘no respectable amateur would mention his new fad of picture-collecting until he had secured a “Bouguereau” for his parlor’ Portrait of Frances and Eva Jonhston (1869) Bouguereau’s fame brought him prestigious commissions in the US; this work depicts the two daughters of John Taylor Johnston a railroad executive who would become the first president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York The portrait reveals the artist’s great skill for painting children as well as his knack for arresting compositions; the younger Eva looks directly at the viewer The catalogue for this exhibition records a telling anecdote related by an American journalist who was chatting to Bouguereau dramatically gruesome painting of Dante and Virgil in hell: ‘If I had stuck to such subjects as that I should have starved long ago […] people will only buy pictures which they can put on the walls and take pleasure in looking at.’ As an example he gestured to what was probably this work of 1897 As popular taste shifted in the 20th century to favour the innovations of the Impressionists and their followers One of the ambitions of this exhibition is to provide a chance to reassess the technical subtlety and emotional power of his best work the smooth texture of her skin contrasts with the rough stone of her bare surroundings suggesting her growing realisation of the uphill struggle that life in poverty will hold for her Event website Irina Dumitrescu Claudia Tobin Michael Prodger Tim Smith-Laing Apollo This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker This April is marked by the return of our Malizia - Seaexplorer to the water and several days of sailing. 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Or sign-in if you have an account People eager to spend the waning days of summer frolicking in the waters near a coastal town in France might want to rethink their plans who recently banned swimming and diving in the area Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience But the danger threatening visitors to the beaches of Landévennec isn’t a vicious rip current or a shark — it’s a lonely “love lorn,” male bottlenose dolphin nicknamed Zafar Zafar has been known in the Bay of Brest for his unabashed playfulness even allowing people to hold on to his dorsal fin as he takes them for rides But the dolphin’s interest in humans now appears to be driven by the need for company of an intimate nature “He is in heat,” one marine mammal expert told the news site Zafar has been seen trying to rub up against swimmers and boats or kayaks the dolphin prevented a female swimmer from returning to shore (she was later rescued by boat) and lifted another woman out of the water with his nose While his name translates to “victory,” Zafar’s various attempts to satisfy his needs have not only fallen short to issue a bylaw banning swimming and diving near the village’s shoreline whenever Zafar is seen in the area were becoming “frightened” by Zafar’s behaviour “I issued the decree to preserve the safety of people,” he said people are also now “forbidden” to get within 50 meters of the dolphin The “aggressive” and “pushy” antics are not unusual for a dolphin in Zafar’s situation lead researcher with Dolphin Research Australia Zafar is what researchers call a “social solitary dolphin,” meaning for some reason he’s been isolated from other dolphins and is now a “social outcast,” Hawkins said yearning social contact from cohorts and that need isn’t fulfilled so it can try different dolphin behaviours toward humans to try and get that social fulfillment,” she said adding that this is when “strange behaviours can come about.” Hawkins said the animals seek to form and reinforce bonds For solitary male dolphins isolated from their society rubbing themselves on objects or people has been observed as attempts to meet that biological need “It’s been observed that dolphins and different whale species will rub themselves against objects with what appears to be some type of sexual satisfaction coming about,” Hawkins said According to one chapter of a 2003 book titled “Marine Mammals: Fisheries Tourism and Management Issues,” researchers observing 29 “lone sociable dolphins” found that at least 13 dolphins had “periods of misdirected sexual behaviours towards humans The way Zafar’s behaviour has progressed is also common among these lone dolphins director of the Marine Mammal Research Program at the University of Hawaii Manoa’s Hawaiian Institute of Marine Biology “The animals slowly become more and more habituated to human activities but in that process they typically become more and more aggressive which sounds like exactly what’s happening now,” Bejder said There have never been any mishaps noted in the natural environment between a dolphin and a human it was noted that at least 18 of the lone dolphins observed directed aggressive behaviour toward people a fact that has motivated locals such as Erwan Le Cornec to challenge the swimming ban a specialist in environmental law who enjoys swimming with Zafar told Le Telegramme he plans to take legal action against the “excessive” decree “There have never been any mishaps noted in the natural environment between a dolphin and a human You just don’t do anything in his presence and don’t go swimming with him if you’re a bad swimmer.” Le Cornec claimed the mayor wants to paint Zafar as a “ferocious beast “It will turn the legitimately positive approach that people have to dolphins into a fear of these intelligent animals and make this fear into a panic and this panic into a real psychosis,” he said told Le Telegramme the decision to impose the ban was made only after consulting marine mammal experts Both Hawkins and Bejder praised the mayor’s actions “With an adult dolphin doing this kind of behaviour “It can actually increase the harm to swimmers themselves and the dolphin male may not mean to inflict harm upon swimmers but it’s several hundred kilos of a fairly rambunctious animal trying to fulfill a need.” Bejder said dolphins ramming into humans can lead to a variety of serious injuries The ban also serves to protect Zafar from an unfortunate fate common to solitary dolphins: untimely death at the hands of humans can lessen a dolphin’s natural instincts to be aware of potential threats leaving them vulnerable getting hit by boats or abused by people “There’s horrible stories of how people have interacted with these animals,” she said noting examples of people stuffing cigarette butts into a dolphin’s blowhole or pouring beer into their throats Based on the description of Zafar’s behaviour Hawkins said it appears the dolphin is already at a “very high level of habituation” and that authorities stepped in at the right time “The best thing you can do for this animal right now is to not interact with it and hope it can resume natural behaviour again,” he said transmission or republication strictly prohibited This website uses cookies to personalize your content (including ads), and allows us to analyze our traffic. 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