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...which is to show what kinds of art were being made at the last turn of the century, when the idea of modernism in culture was just forming, and when some of the most admired artists bore names you'd hardly recognize today--not Cezanne, Mondrian, Picasso, but Boldini, Carolus-Duran, Zorn, Sorolla, Vrubel, Toorop and Pellizza da Volpedo...
...fostered by training in Paris in the 1870s, at the teaching atelier of Emile Carolus-Duran. Very much the maestro and dandy, Carolus-Duran focused his method on a near monomaniac attention to direct tonal painting, almost the opposite of color-based Impressionism. "Velazquez, Velazquez, Velazquez," he intoned, "ceaselessly study Velazquez." And from that study, Sargent got three of the major traits of his style. The first was a consummate skill in rendering objects and people bathed in space and low light. The second was its apparent straightforwardness--its ability to make a gesture count, to "knock in" the folds...
...Still, Carolus said she feels real advances are possible...
...used to say 'Freedom in our lifetime,'" Carolus said. "If we can overcome those odds in South Africa, we can overcome a heck...
Last night, on International Women's Day, Cheryl Carolus, deputy secretary general of the African National Congress, gave a lecture sponsored by Radcliffe College titled "Women, Power and Democracy," at the IOP (Please see story, page...