Word: davids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...equivalent was the special watch maintained by Frank Reynolds and Jules Bergman on ABC, Walter Cronkite and Wally Schirra on CBS, and Chet Huntley, David Brinkley and Frank McGee on NBC. The climax was reached when all three networks canceled their regular programs- CBS and NBC for 31 hours starting at 11 a.m. on Sunday, and ABC for 30 hours beginning at noon-to report, contemplate and analyze the space epic. To fill the hours the networks pulled out all the stops and scheduled an impressive array of names. ABC commissioned Duke Ellington to write and perform a piece...
Nineteenth century French painting has never fitted neatly into art historians' annals. It was a century of variety and contradictions, blessed with an embarrassment of riches. Every decade had its transcendent master-David, Ingres, Delacroix, Courbet, Corot, Manet, Cézanne-whose force of personality outshone multitudes of minor but thoroughly accomplished painters. One artistic ism followed another, as Neo-classicism yielded to Romanticism, Realism to Impressionism...
...first round in this esthetic debate belongs rightfully to Jacques-Louis David, whose painting is displayed in the exhibition alongside that of five of his pupils. An active revolutionary who later wielded tremendous power as official painter to Napoleon, a classicist able to bend Greco-Roman ideals to the service of French patriotism, David embodied the contradictions of the century. More important, his gruesomely vivid portrait of the assassinated revolutionist Jean-Paul Marat dying in a bathtub established him as the first artist to make painting relevant to real and immediate events destined for history. "The father of the entire...
...that cold-eyed passion for historical reality carried over in his pupils' work. Ingres inherited his cold eye, but turned it on unimaginable odalisques and comfortable patrons. His other illustrious pupil, Antoine-Jean Gros, almost reversed the master by ushering in a new school of romantic pageantry. Like David, Gros became caught up in the whirlwind of contemporary politics. Through Josephine, he met Bonaparte in 1796, was given a role in the French army's confiscation of Italian art treasures, then taken into Napoleon's entourage...
...most majestic terms, and Bonaparte Visiting the Pest-Ridden of Jaffa, showing the conqueror touching the sores of a hapless victim of the plague, was clearly intended to portray Napoleon as the modern hero sans pareil. But the picture is redeemed by the sharply observed bodies of the stricken. David would probably have laid the scene in a bare hospital room, and Gros considered just that. But feeling the need tor a more theatrical setting for his hero, he conceived of a Moorish courtyard looking out on the ramparts of the city. When the painting was shown in the Salon...