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...very typical of Taubes that his favorite picture, the only print in his tiny, book-lined study, is an etching by Brueghel which pictures the artist and an onlooker. On he artist's face is all the agony and triumph of creation, while the insipid expression of the onlooker reflects only passive, exploitative enjoyment. Never content with passivity, Taubes is always he supremely ambitions artist...
Though hardly anything is known about Pieter Bruegel the Elder, a great deal is known because of him. The demons and louts who crowd the pages of the newly published Fantasy of Pieter Brueghel* (edited by Adriaan L. Barnouw, Lear; $5) tell a lot about his time. Like the Satevepost covers of Norman Rockwell and John Falter, Bruegel's 16th Century pictures are minutely reportorial. But Bruegel never lapsed into slickness or sentimentality, not even when he illustrated the fairy tales and proverbs of his age. His frankness might not get through the mails today...
...20th Century, Max Ernst (see col. 3) renounced the pleasures of painting the sunlit world he saw around him. By concentrating on the feathered, taloned, sharp-toothed horrors visible to his inner eye, Ernst became modern art's first surrealist (old masters Bosch, Brueghel, Grünewald, and others had been there be fore him). All Ernst had to do was to close his eyes to see Satan hovering before him in the studio. And Ernst's Satan was easy to recognize: he invariably looked like everything that Ernst feared most...
...place he has recently come to occupy, on the grounds that he is highly over-rated as a painter. Now whether or not Van Gogh is over-rated must remain a point for further discussion. It can be said, however, that along with such men as El Greco, Brueghel, Cezanne, and a few others, he has succeeded in stamping every painting which he has executed with the seal of his own unique personality. Many artists have excelled, but few have been as convincing in the field of self-assertion as Van Gogh...
Beginning today and extending through December 18 there will be two exhibitions of reproductions of prints by Durer, Brueghel, Holbein, and modern masters, held in the seminar room, third floor, of the Fogg Museum. Particulars concerning the purchase of these reproductions may be had at the place of exhibition...