Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Britishers think of art as a way to have their pictures taken. Portraitists have flourished in England ever since the Ger man Holbein, the Flemish Van Dyck came to make their everlasting fame & fortune at the British court. For 200 years Eng land has painted most of its own portraits, in good times even manages to export a surplus crop. Such British painters as Augustus John, Simon Elwes, Frank O. Salisbury, the late Anglicized Philip de Laszló have reaped a golden harvest from U. S. tycoons and socialites anxious to show a good face to posterity...
Fiene embodies some of the controlled but outspoken realism of the elder Breughel, sixteenth century Flemish master. In Breughel's work, we see the underlying and basic connection of man with nature. His men and women are integral parts of the landscape; humanity is just as deeply rooted in the earth as a massive rock or a tree. Fiene speaks much in the same manner. His men are on a par with the countryside which they inhabit. But his is a new kind of landscape, one bristling with cranes and pulleys, a valley of machines whose wheels seem...
Seeing the glory of God in even the smallest created things, Flemish monks of the 15th Century used to make a point of it in such dissertations as On the Beauty of the Louse. Flemish painters, whose art was an outgrowth of manuscript illumination, showed the same reverence for the minuscule, became Europe's most meticulous realists. "All this is very popular," snorted Florentine Michelangelo. "The least artistic inteligence can find therein something that appeals to it ... but it lacks rhythm and proportion. . . ." The artist who most nearly united Flemish delicacy and Italian power of composition was Hans Memling...
...Cleveland. One of the few important Memlings not included was the Last Judgment altarpiece in Danzig Cathedral, unavailable because of "international tension." About the finest thing in the exhibition was an altarpiece in nine panels (polyptych) from Lübeck, painted with an austere simplification of detail rare in Flemish art. Most famous of all, and best proof of "Master Hans's" ability to handle crowded, minute composition, was his series of six panels on the life of St. Ursula from Bruges' own ancient Hospital of St. John. According to legend, the artist might never have painted this...
...Valentiner went too far with intimate arrangement only once, crowding five El Grecos into a cubicle. Chief triumphs of the show were in his own favorite field of Flemish and Dutch painting. In the eyes of connoisseurs, the Ince Hall Madonna (see cut) by Jan van Eyck was worth an exhibition all by itself. This tiny (8¾ inches by 6 inches) painting on wood came all the way from the National Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, where it is valued at $250,000. Until 1922 it lurked, under a heavy scum of varnish, in the murk of Ince Hall, near...