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...those sumptuous Venetian nudes; but Rembrandt avoids idealism, suffuses the real imperfect body with thought and a sense of moral reflection, re-creates the structure of flesh in terms of an amazing directness of "rough" brush marks. We think of paintings like this or the later Kenwood Self-Portrait (circa 1665), with its sketchy construction (arcs in the background, a near Cubist flurry of angular brush marks to indicate palette and brushes), as being a long way from the Italian Renaissance, but in fact they are grounded in it and in Titian's late manner...
...gazing at Rembrandt's Jewish Bride in Amsterdam in 1885, "if I could go on sitting here in front of this painting for a fortnight, with only a crust of dry bread for food." This (more or less) describes the fate of Rembrandt's own apprentices. The Jewish Bride (circa 1665) is Rembrandt through and through; but many Rembrandts are not, for the simple reason that (contrary to romantic legends of his poverty and his rejection by the stuffy bourgeoisie of 17th century Amsterdam) he was, for most of his adult life, an extremely popular and successful artist working within...
...morning in America anymore, but in Europe, with communism spent and the trans-Channel tunnel imminent, there is still just enough of the ; upward-and-onward spirit to produce a real old-fashioned (that is, circa 1970) fair in Seville -- although, in line with recent fashion, it is not called a world's fair but Expo...
...going to turn philosophical and declaim what it means. Although the subject is nothing less than the whole range of political, social and philosophical options by which black people have lived for the past couple of decades, the story remains, to all appearances, a glimpse of everyday existence circa 1969 in a run-down Pittsburgh luncheonette...
Eddie Ross (Judd Hirsch) is a Manhattan Tevye circa 1936, railing at family, customers and God. The fury is understandable. Both sons are targets of anti- Semitic gangs. Racketeers want a piece of his saloon business. Worse still, Zaretsky (David Margulies), an aging star of the Yiddish theater, keeps informing him of the Holocaust engulfing Europe...