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...Durer and His Time, is an exhibition of German drawing now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts through April 17. The exhibition spans the golden age of German draftsmenship, from 1470 to 1530--an age in which Durer was the central figure. Numbered among the works of Schongauer, the Cranachs, the Holbeins, Grunewald, and other of Durer's forerunners, contemporaries, and followers, are 40 drawings by Durer himself...
Line fascinated the German artists within the Late Gothic tradition. Their love for its abstract and intricate nature is clearly brought out in the Boston Museum's extraordinary exhibition of Durer and his Time. But above all, this show brings out Durer's supreme position among German draughtsmen of the fifteenth century. He was the man who tried to bridge the gap between Late Gothic linear expression and the compositional stability of the Renaissance...
...Late Gothic tradition in Germany was the native inspiration that animated the work of Durer and his contemporaries. Artists working in this style employed interlacing forms and flattened planes, decorative detail, and agitated pen strokes, and displayed strong emotional expression with an interest in man's world in its natural state. More than any other this last characteristic, which we call naturalism, distinguishes the Late Gothic spirit from the idealism of Renaissance...
...Bust of an Old Man by Durer's predecessor, Martin Schongauer, is a pronounced example of the human quality which we associate with Gothic naturalism Schongauer's work provided Durer with an example of naturalism which united the Flemish realistic tradition with the grace and inventiveness of Gothic drawing. Durer's early work, influenced by this example, abounds in ideas, emotional expression, and vivid Gothic naturalism...
...change in format has brought no change in the Advocate's quality; underneath a handsome mustard cover boasting a Durer woodcut lies a competent but uninspiring collage of prose and poetry. This Advocate is neither "bad" nor "good"--it is just flat...