Word: bellellis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Russian Dancers of 1899, three women in clumping boots, locked together in a straining mass like Goya's witches. Both the allegory and the freshness can be found in his first real masterpiece, done in 1858-67 after he got back to Paris from his studies in Rome: The Bellelli Family, that marvelously observed group portrait of his neurotic aunt Laura, her lazy and distracted husband Gennaro and their two daughters. For though it is a tour de force of realist observation -- how much more concrete and present the Bellellis seem to us, surrounded by the furniture and other stuff...
...turbulent Byronic visions of nature. Beyond Courbet on the left, you have Manet; beyond Thomas Couture on the right, there is Degas. To stand in the sculpture-avenue between them, savoring the confrontation, framed in their respective portals, of Manet's Dejeuner sur l'Herbe with Degas's Bellelli Family, each the masterpiece of its maker's youth, is to receive a museum experience of a very high order. Lucky the architect who can collaborate...
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