Word: giottos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sight was so much more beautiful than all those dry, thin abstractions inside the gallery. It made me want to paint the richness we can see and feel." He went to Italy, where the Renaissance had spread its richness across acres of church and palace walls. Inspired by Giotto, Uccello and Andrea del Castagno, he resolved to paint, as they had, for the millions: "I stick to my idea of a clear, firm, simple and precise art that everyone can understand...
...Sept. 3, 1939, Buchner closed the doors of the museum and got his master plan rolling to save one of the finest collections of paintings in the world, including 74 Rubenses, 10 Rembrandts, 26 Van Dycks, 15 Dürers, 10 Titians, 12 Tintorettos, 9 Veroneses, choice works by Giotto, Raphael. Botticelli, Goya, El Greco, Velasquez, Poussin. More than 1,000 paintings were packed for storage and loaded on trucks. The best were sent to the salt mines near Salzburg, Austria, where Buchner's careful investigation had found perfect temperature and humidity, and a bombproof mountain on top. Director...
...Liberation and Italian Landscape, have led the artist towards a rediscovery of European art. It is apparent that a number of new influences have been felt by the artist since the days of the stumpy and more photographic realism of Sunday Painter. The influence of European masters like Giotto, he acknowledged as early as the Sacco-Vanzetti series. More recently folk and primitive art, as represented in the Rousseau-like motifs of Summertime or the expressive decoration of Incutus, are apparent, as well as the influence of early European religious art and the grace and poetry of Shahn's figures...
...massive central balcony and surrounding galleries of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art last week were aglow with an unprecedented display of masterpieces. On view were Giotto's famed Paduan fresco Betrayal of Christ, Piero della Francesca's looming Resurrection, the Louvre's Mona Lisa, El Greco's towering 16-by12-ft. Burial of Count Orgaz and Georges Seurat's 7-by-10-ft. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. To equal the experience, an art lover would have had to visit 26 museums, travel some 15,000. miles...
...lies not in such blameless refereeing but in Rodman's heartfelt reinterpretation of art history, past and present. In a succession of loosely connected essays he shows that art has always been two-faced. Giotto knew how to make the two faces-form and content-merge into one. So did Rembrandt and every other great painter. But artists who try to get around the problem by sacrificing form to content (like the academicians) or content to form (like the most extreme of the moderns) have always fallen flat between...