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For example, the four works of China Forbes, are troubled by the rift. One painting, "Dead Leaves," is an interesting idea--Forbes assembles painted leaves upon a canvas. Closer attention to arrangement and the use of color would do the idea more justice. As the work stands, the colors are...
Stone. Bronze. Oil on canvas. This is the durable stuff that heavy-duty art history is made of. For more than three decades, however, Jean-Michel Folon has taken on serious, humanistic themes with no more than delicate whispers of watercolor on paper. His skill and inventiveness have made him...
At most, only two of the works stolen from the slightly frayed but beloved museum, built as a re-creation of a Venetian palace in 1903, have real significance in art history. Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galilee is his only seapiece, and the Vermeer Concert is, well...
Brookner, who is often compared with Henry James and Barbara Pym, has written better novels. Her best works juxtapose exquisitely etched character miniatures against a larger canvas. In Family and Friends (1985) and Latecomers (1989), her protagonists interact with small gestures in narrow worlds, but in the background World War...
Things firm up toward the '80s. The picture that changed Moskowitz's style was Swimmer, 1977, a canvas bearing the head and raised arm of a figure in the sea. This figure is quite an abstract form, and it is embedded, heraldically, in a dark field of Prussian blue. From...