Word: flemish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...style derives from both decorative Oriental and primitive art and illusionist painting. He may lift details from lace sleeves he has seen in a Flemish masterwork at the Metropolitan Museum and expand them into blown-up patterns, offset these with gingham checks from his wife's summer dress, and counterpoint both with huge pointillist dots. The results look like an explosion in a fabrics factory or a rabbit-hole view of a Wonderland garden...
Trained as a mathematician and astronomer at Oxford, Wren used an empirical approach to architecture. In general, he kept to the Gothic tradition, with steeples and layers of construction piling upward, but to this he added French, Flemish and Italian Baroque as it suited his purpose, pleased his fancy, or kindled his architectural imagination. He might be called a virtuoso of the eclectic. St. Paul's combines coupled columns from the Louvre with the triple-layered dome of Mansart's Hotel des Invalides. It served as a model for the U.S. Capitol dome. At St. Mary leBow...
...Dollar Theater people came closer to success with William Saroyan's melodramatic Hello Out There. Apparently a Texas jailhouse is easier to relate to than the Flemish de Ghelderode's fantasies...
...periods are only spottily-though sometimes handsomely-represented. There are two Titians, a Raphael Resurrection of Christ, a Mantegna St. Jerome, a commanding Velásquez portrait. There are also some diverting minor works, such as Quentin Metsys' Contract of Marriage, a droll example of genre by a Flemish contemporary of Erasmus, showing a young man dutifully snuggling up to an ugly but rich old wife...
Possibly, the Flemish tiler's son felt that he was only a servant, like Gilles, eavesdropping on his masters. Conceivably, he realized that any artist, like any comedian, must retain a sense of detachment. Very probably, he sensed that the fabulous beau monde was spending far beyond its means, that the entire stage-set would soon be struck, and that it was up to him to capture both its gaiety and its unreality. Certainly he knew that his own gifts were fleeting. For the last ten years of his life, he knew he had tuberculosis. Gilles, painted just...