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...shows Prometheus bound to Mount Caucasus as punishment by Zeus for stealing fire from the gods. Prometheus's pain is tangible to the viewer. His muscular body writhes and twists as an eagle digs his claws into the man's foreshortened body. With a bold diagonal composition and bravado brushwork, Rubens conveys human agony in the dynamic, engaging style typical of the Baroque period...
Though the exhibition contains mainly finished canvases, it also features an important gallery containing several of Rubens's oil sketches. These served as preparatory works for his finished products. Here, Rubens's brushwork and dynamic compositions are clearly evident in examples such as "Neptune Calming the Tempest," on loan from Harvard's own Fogg Museum...
...ACROSS AMERICA by William H. Gerdts (Abbeville; $425). Only a handful of American artists have entered the national consciousness, even though the country has always brimmed with painters and sculptors. This huge, three- volume history compensates for the neglect by celebrating the brushwork of some 800 gifted men and women. No greater revelation has been published this year...
Examining the Bay Area output today, viewers will recognize strong affinities to later styles. Brown's dense canvases helped lay the groundwork for San Francisco's subsequent funk explosion; Park's blank-faced male nudes anticipated Eric Fischl's anxious, naked suburbanites. Much of the vigorous Bay Area brushwork was reflected, more than a quarter-century later, in paint- happy neoexpressionism. Despite some occasional heavy-handedness, though, the works displayed in this show are far more engaging than their irony-loaded grandchildren...
FRANS HALS, National Gallery of Art, Washington. The great 17th century Dutch portraitist's bravura brushwork and piercing insight still bring figures to startling life. Incredibly, this is the first major show devoted to him outside the Netherlands. Through...