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Overwhelmed by the turbulent revolution, some painters found relief in a nostalgic sense of the past. The idealism of Hellenism served to mirror the heroics of Napoleon. And in recognizing contemporary figures as viable subjects, painters became aware that a struggling peasant could also have a kind of nobility. Travels to exotic cities in North Africa and the Orient also opened painters' eyes to the inimitable charms of the French landscape. Thus, a century that opened extolling antiquity as subject matter ended in exalting personal visual experience. Painting for a patron was replaced by painting purely...
...Talleyrand, Delacroix both extended and refined Gros' epic romanticism. Though his high baroque style claimed no successor, Delacroix's techniques in juxtaposing complementary colors influenced Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin and the Impressionists. He hit upon the method on a visit to Morocco in 1832. He found that by counterpointing color opposites, which by the law of optics fused in the eye to form gray, he could attain at once a strong effect and a sense of overall harmony. The validity of his theory can be traced in an unusually delicate if cloyingly romantic painting...
Unprejudiced View. By midcentury, the time's inherent romanticism found expression in a burst of landscape painting-and a new respect for human problems. Corot marched out of doors to paint, and the Barbizon school followed. Jean-Francois Millet captured the inherent dignity of peasant farmers, Daumier the poetry of the Parisian poor. But the overall point that the Minneapolis show makes is that 19th century French painting has too long been viewed as a vast academic conspiracy against the innovators who are now enshrined as the founders of modern art. It makes for a story of martyrs...
Some legal historians have found that argument more sinister than anything since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, when constitutional rights were openly violated on the ironic grounds that this was the only way to defend the Constitution. "It is an outrage," declared Columbia University Government Professor Alan Westin, author of the 1967 book Privacy and Freedom and one of 13 professors who fired off an impassioned protest to Mitchell. "It is one of the most dangerous claims for power by an Attorney General in our history...
Gallery C extended a warm, week-long invitation to ignore this mandate. From Paris, Sculptor Lygia Clark imported two powder-blue space suits of her own design. After a man and a woman entered the suits and Miss Clark sealed the sightless helmets, the occupants found that their only access to each other was through zippered pockets strategically located over the erogenous zones. When the man opened one of her pockets, he felt a hairy male chest rather than a soft female bosom; the woman, in turn, reached out to touch a rubber breast. Somewhat south of these pockets were...