Word: arcadians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grinding realities of the city-the great exception being Millet, with his unfaltering sense of the earth and its rigors, and the stupors it enforced on those who worked it. One may doubt whether the women's work of gleaning after harvest was normally as dignified and arcadian as Breton suggested in The Gleaners...
...passionate self-identification. Picasso's Minotaur, now young and self-regarding, fresh as a Narcissus with horns, now bowed under the bison-like weight of his own grizzled head, is Picasso himself. His Mediterranean images are the last appearance, in serious art, of the symbols of that once Arcadian coast...