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...puppet-like fishermen. Though the colors were dreary, they did make a wet, mysterious atmosphere, and Leonid's brush had time & again captured the textures of dry dunes and soaking sand flats, the hiss and sigh of retreating waves. Moreover, his drawing was as graceful as the brushwork of a Chinese calligrapher. Each composition was a looping arabesque in which men and boats were neatly knotted, carrying the gaze back and back to far-distant horizons...
...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...
...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...