Word: gainsboroughs
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...need to be on the scene. Modeling gave her self-confidence, and acting "is a vent for my fantasies." Last week in Manhattan, cuddling her Shih Tzu, K.K. (short for King Kong), she reminisced about her most notable fantasy to date, Lady Lyndon. Done up like a portrait by Gainsborough, Marisa seems the model of 18th century English womanhood, even to the torrents of tears Lady Lyndon sheds at her son's death. "I could do nothing else but cry, looking at that sweet boy-I am quite good at crying," says Marisa. "Once I start...
...young bride Saskia, resting her hand on her presumptively pregnant belly; the other is a magnificent, hauntingly evocative biblical work painted when intimations of mortality obsessed the artist. There is a marvelous Chardin that Catherine herself commissioned to depict the "Attributes of the Arts." There is an exquisite early Gainsborough that looks ahead to his immense popularity as "face-painter" of the most beautiful women. The most spectacular picture is The Lute Player, painted by Caravaggio circa 1596 when he was only 23. No artist who saw its hard-lined reality, its dramatic lighting, its thrusting composition (the lute...
...effort to show Rubens' posthumous influence on Europe theme by theme. It is hard to see how so much territory could be better indicated on a small exhibition budget. Apart from the (necessarily small) paintings by Rubens himself, there are works by Jouvenet, De La Fosse, Boucher, Fragonard, Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Gericault and Delacroix, and as fine a group of Watteau crayon drawings as one could hope to see in any room...
...rolling eyes and distended nostrils, was repeated by Géricault and Delacroix until it became the very symbol of the romantics' sense of organic energy. In portraiture, Rubens' sense of the grand manner and his way of putting figures convincingly within nature would deeply affect both Gainsborough and Reynolds, the leading English art theorist of his time. Reynolds greatly admired Rubens' "airiness and facility...
...committee for art appreciation to create an art program that would give the public a well-needed moral lift. It was the committee's decision to select the world's most famous paintings from the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries - the best paintings of Matisse, Van Gogh, Gainsborough, Picasso, Gauguin, Titian, etc., and to reproduce them in full color as perfectly as humanly possible and make them available to the public at a price within the reach of nearly everyone...