Word: brushworks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...again & again in all weathers. Compared with Cézanne's faultlessly constructed landscapes, Masson's were explosive in composition. Cézanne's seemed to have the range of a 75, Masson's that of a cap-pistol-but they popped with the vivid brushwork that had always been his trademark...
...American. Critics who look for oriental innuendoes in Dong's bright colors and brash brushwork can trace his work back to China's 1,400-year-old tradition of sacrificing detail to get the "rhythmic vitality" of a scene...
...scientist at all, but merely a London artist of the 19303 who paints such a conventionally fashionable portrait of his socialite fiancée (Helen Walker) that some of her cultivated friends discern in it "touches of genius." Others recognize it as identical in bloom and brushwork with the work of a portraitist who died some 50 years before. Even when Artist Karell lays aside the palette for a chemist's flask he is no Frankenstein, intent on making a living man out of spare parts of dead ones. He wants merely to preserve himself at a perpetual...
...main periods were represented. Between 1826, when Corot painted the clean, realistic Bridge and Castle St. Angela (with St. Peter's dome in the distance), and 1851, when he painted the solid sunlit Harbor of La Rochelle, Corot's art seldom revealed a trace of the feathery brushwork that later made him so rich a man and so sentimental a landscapist. This less familiar period of Corot's work is represented by 22 canvases. Only the most fanatical Corot connoisseurs will recognize in these masterpieces the painter of so many gloomy women (The Pensive Muse, The Pensive...
...many years. During that time he travelled incessantly (on a handsome allowance from his father), not for pleasure, but to study landscape. His chief inspiration came from Italy, where he did some of his best work: the brilliant, sunlit View of Genoa, the lovely Olevano with its Cezanne-like brushwork. Not until he was in his 50s and under the influence of the Barbizon school did Corot begin to paint, not what nature is, but his dream of what it ought...