Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...religious experience. And when he found his pictures widely ignored (he was not a success in the marketplace), he succumbed to an almost paranoid embitterment, watching "realist" landscape triumph over his ideal form of it in the 1830s. For the naturalists, Friedrich had one last word. "If [the artist] sees nothing within him," he wrote, "then he should also refrain from painting what he sees before him. Otherwise his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which"-startling phrase-"one expects to find only the sick or the dead...
...formal problems but has no very striking imagination of his own. Besides, he is editorial director of Conde Nast-Petronius Arbiter in a gray suit-and there are critics who (subliminally, no doubt) feel that nobody as socially conspicuous as that should be treated with complete seriousness as an artist...
When Liberman sent paintings out to be fabricated by craftsmen or sign painters in the early '50s, other artists frowned on that as "mechanical." But in the next decade, when preplanned works made to the artist's order became an "issue," Liberman, who by then had gone back, or on, to a splashier style, was criticized for being too obsessed with the handmade object. He had exploited optical dazzle in works like After-image (1955) long before Op art was ever heard of. His use of chance and planned matrices foreshadowed the later interest in serial and process...
Still, Brassai is not a parochial artist as the sixtytwo photographs on display in M.I.T.'s Hayden Gallery brilliantly prove. Brassai's works confront us as documents and as works of art. They present the appearance of a specific moment in history yet manage to escape a pernicious topicality. Brassai takes pictures that beckon us to return again and again, like his portrait of a peasant sleeping on a train, oblivious to the landscape whizzing by outside his window, his worn and grizzled head thrown back against the seat, his mouth a gaping black hole. Or his photograph of Kiki...
...outdone, the Museum of Fine Arts tonight opens "The Changing Image: Prints by Francisco Goya." Goya, perhaps the outstanding artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, was both a painter and excellent graphic artist. Many of his prints--especially those from the end of his career--exhibit a strange kind of ghoulish melancholy over the state of human life. This show takes Goya's etchings and, using loans from Europe and the United States and the museum's own collection, traces the changes he made as each print advanced from state to state. They exhibit as many...