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One thing the show makes amply clear: Hals is not just the painter of laughing cavaliers and gypsy girls. He is, in fact, more of a Dutch uncle than he first appears. Many of his women are as homely as a wooden shoe. He lived during the dawn of the...
Boudin's precise renderings rarely filled more than a 25-in. by 32-in. canvas. Once he had thought he would do larger works. In 1859 he wrote in his notebook of feeling "freed somewhat of timidity; I shall try some broad paintings, things on a big scale and...
There was nothing but silence, however, from modern art's most famous master. "Monsieur and Madame are not at home," squawked a loudspeaker hooked up to the electronically operated gate of his villa, Notre Dame de Vie. A few intimate glimpses of life within still leak out to the...
In an effort to define their paintings within a limited pictorial space, many of the abstract-expressionist painters, in the fifties, dispensed with frames altogether. Without frames, their pictures lose the illusionistic window effect and, rather than continuing off into an imaginary pictorial space behind a frame, they stop at...
The earliest antecedents of this breakdown of the spatial illusion in painting are the pointillist pictures of the late nineteenth century -- particularly Seurat and Signac. They tried to break down the illusion of space by treating the frame with the same minute dots of color which cover the background of...