Word: corots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Europe was plunged into World War I. Keynes was called to Britain's Treasury to work on overseas finances, where he quickly shone. Even his artistic tastes came in handy. He figured a way to balance the French accounts by having Britain's National Gallery buy paintings by Manet, Corot and Delacroix at bargain prices...
...demotic too. It remains the most influential art dialect of the early 20th century. As if to distance himself from his imitators, Picasso then went to the opposite extreme of embracing the classical past, with his paintings of huge dropsical women dreaming Mediterranean dreams in homage to Corot and Ingres...
...films, Godard's cinematography is clean and sharply punctuated, fixing on such pop culture images as pinball machines and posters. High and low art are thrown back and forth, and shown to be virtually interchangeable. The Seine is a Corot, and Romeo and Juliet is a tabloid. The three protagonists run madly through the Louvre to try to outdo some sort of world record...
...interesting to me is that this Picasso, who after all did do something pretty great--cubism--immediately afterward begins to do something which many people would normally feel is not really great: namely a whole career as a pasticheur. So after cubism he becomes this super imitator of Ingres, Corot, Renoir, Poussin...
University Art Museums: New exhibits include "David to Corot: French Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum" and "The Fire of Hephaistos: Large Classical Bronzes from North American Collections" (at the Sackler...