Word: douaniers
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...wildernesses of the new world. No wonder Hicks looks so quaint in 1975. For 50 years since his "rediscovery," he has been thought to be the best of all American primitive painters whose works survive from the 19th century-not because he was a great instinctive draftsman like the Douanier Rousseau but because his whole way of imagining the world derives from a hope about human nature that is peculiarly and particularly American. If that view -along with the religious view that supported it-is now nearly as dead as the moon, it remains an aspiration that Americans cherish. Both...
...highlights of the Newark show is Monet's relatively unknown Cabane de Douanier à Pourville, painted in 1882. Faithful to his impressionistic concern with light and color, Monet soaks the scene in sunlight. The Mediterranean, glimpsed from a hill, is cool and inviting, spreading out before the eye in a blaze of blue. Except for a few puffs of cloud, the sky is empty. Monet used only bright colors in this painting-reds, blues, greens and yellows -and he painted thin. The effect is purposely misleading; the viewer suspects that underneath the pigment lies not canvas, but porcelain...
...Marisol's dolls are not just witty toys. Although her art has been mistaken for pop, she is actually more the "wise primitive." She naturally admires the work of the Douanier Rousseau, as well as African, pre-Columbian and early American sculpture. Her statues can also suggest the hex of voodoo, and she admits, "Sometimes I get scared by my own work." She knows the primitive idea that making likenesses of people gives the maker power over them. "If I have a boy friend who has been nasty to me," says Marisol, "I will make a sculpture...
...that look more like lions are a trademark of David Berger, one of the finest young painters to be seen in Cambridge. They are one disturbing element in a world otherwise ruled by gaiety and love. A small cat lurks in the background where young lovers sleep, peering like douanier Rousseau's tiger, an ominous and imposing reality. In another instance a group of cats prey like vultures around the form of a young girl who is sleeping amidst a bacchanalian dance in the forest. Mr. Berger saves his naive world by this grace. If one lives in a dream...
...cyclist series with Les Loisirs ("Leisure"-see cut), which was one of the hits of his Paris show. As stiffly posed as a daguerreotype, the painting echoed Léger's early days as a retoucher as well as the paintings of the granddaddy of Paris primitives, Le Douanier Rousseau. Les Loisirs came as close to nature as anything Léger had done for years; he even painted the sky blue instead of dark red as he had first intended. Even so, its handsomeness was like that of a glistening machine designed and put together by a master...