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...perimeter of Zurbaran's space often seems as thin as tissue, ready to collapse under the pressure of revelation -- and sometimes it literally does, as when the back wall of the otherwise "normal" domestic scene of The Virgin and Christ in the House of Nazareth dissolves in clouds of fulgid light while the young Jesus, foreseeing his Passion, pricks his finger on a thorn...
...conspired to make us think of neoclassical art as sensually diluted. A sharp contour supposedly driveth out lust. Of course it does not, and the sensuality of a Delacroix nude seems quite uncomplicated beside the grandiose perversity of Ingres's Jupiter and Thetis. That monument of ivory and fulgid blue, with the nymph's body twining in supplication up the huge patriarchal block of a torso, achieves a sexual pitch within its insistent abstraction that not even Matisse could rival...
...Martin Buber wrote, "naked under their clothes, blood coursing under their skins, all of whose exposed heartbeats together would drown out the united voices of the machines." The pictorial result was a labored and rather masochistic fortissimo, executed in the belief that feeling was all: jagged lines, dissonant and fulgid colors, heavy gloom. The level of sophistication, except in Klee, Feininger, Schiele and occasionally Beckmann, was close to zero. Expressionism was a young man's movement, the creation (like Dadaism) of people in their...
...opens the new season at New York's Museum of Modern Art, a sleeper; but it has a degree of truth. Nearly 20 years have gone by since this quiet, theory-shy artist came back from Paris and began turning out his spare, immaculately drafted abstractions amid the fulgid polemics of the New York scene...
...Morrises, Judds and Oldenbergs, lights still burn in the new sculpture gallery, the completion of which was the occasion for the party. Through the glass wall of his house, a few hundred feet away, the host watches the Connecticut sky display its sense of occasion by turning a fulgid, Turneresque pink. Philip Johnson, architect and art collector, scans his horizon with pleasure as if the sunset, too, were a commissioned work. The inauguration of his own special Xanadu is nearly over...