Word: artist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Otto print, a unique impression; the Assumption of the virgin, formerly attributed to Botticelli; and the Battle of the Nudes, the only plate known to have been engraved by the painter and sculptor Antonio Pollaiuolo. Especially interesting in connection with the engraving by Pollaiuolo is a drawing by the artist, probably a study for the engraving. The great artist, Andrea Mantegna, is represented by very fine impressions of four of his plates...
...early 16th century, and Dutch art in the fulness of its flowering is shown by a group of drawings and etchings by the 17th century painter and one of the world's greatest master etchers, Rembrandt. The pen-drawing of an old man shows how perfectly the great artist knew how to choose the significant line, omitting all that was not essential, and a wash drawing of Joseph in the Carpenter's Shop is a good illustration of his use of chiaroscuro. Of the etchings shown, the Three Trees and Christ Healing the Sick, popularly known as the "Hundred Guilder...
...artist Blake was equally radical. He invented amazing color-schemes, distorted anatomies; in short, sacrificed all realism to the needs of the design. He contained the devout purity of Fra Angelico, the supernatural neurosis of El Gregco, and something resembling Botticelli's line and Michelangelo's force...
...most of us, William Blake is known only as a poet, but his full genius as an artist, a religious thinker and a writer is vividly shown in this exhibit of illuminated manuscripts...
There is no other artist like Blake: such strange, impressionistic color schemes and visionary books cannot be imitated. The spirit of Blake could exist in no other man. To miss seeing this complete collection of his works now means to miss seeing them forever, because it will probably be impossible to get together again books from so many private collections...