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...Admittedly, there are some weak patches at the beginning. For some reason, the curators did not include any of the triptychs that were Beckmann's crowning achievement as a pictorial fabulist; and so, despite the presence of two or three works as good as Aerial Acrobats, 1928--a Goya-like capricho rendered with grandly menacing stolidity--a visitor might not grasp why Beckmann could be considered the greatest German artist of the 20th century...
Avedon's ambition is to be, like Goya, both the royal chronicler and the social critic. But unflattering shots of the glamorous and privileged are one thing. How to cast that incinerating gaze upon ordinary people? Not one to swaddle his Western subjects in the gentle conventions of "concerned photography," he has persisted in his relentless inspection of bad skin, weak chins and glassy-eyed expressions. He also has resorted in places to cliched potshots, as in one picture of a nine-year-old cradling a gun. Yet he has given most of the people in these pictures ample means...
...murals of Picasso. Along the way he stops to consider almost every major artist; he shows how Dürer worked in woodcuts, the techniques of Holbein (seen painting the clothes of a straw model because the King is too busy to pose), the hidden Christian imagery of Goya, the palette of the impressionists, the contained violence of the fauves and cubists. Ventura augments photographs of the paintings with his own sketches of the artists at work, explains such terms as fresco and perspective and concludes with a series of brief biographies. There are yearlong art-appreciation classes that...
...rivaled Leonardo's anatomies and, like them, came from grueling years of dissection and observation. His variations on a favorite subject, the white horse neighing in anguish as it is mauled by a lion in the wilderness, are among the archetypes of romantic imagination, comparable in intensity to Goya or Gericault. Finally, he was a minute and sympathetic watcher at the human theater of the English class system...
...stricken soldiers, the bombed-out city of Cologne - is swept away by the final "knee play" as a new tree grows from the pages of a book. Wilson's dream world is informed by the perspective of the hypnagogic state: the sleep of reason may produce monsters, as Goya thought, but it can also call forth visions...