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Wilson's imagination is hallucinatory, evoking the visions of drug takers. It is also surreal. If Dali had not thought of a melting watch, Wilson could have. Stalin does not unfold through logic, but through phantasmagorical sequences, as if dancers were paradoxically miming still lifes.
One of British Playwright David Storey's avocations is painting, and as a dramatist he depicts still lifes. His detractors emphasize the "still"-nothing happens in a Storey play. His admirers emphasize the "life"-everything that constitutes the experience of a lifetime has been distilled into two hours of...
Matisse's still lifes were populated by his own sculptures, and he painted pictures of his own paintings. So with Nasturtiums and 'The Dance' I, 1912; the figures dancing in a ring in the background are actually one of the mural-size canvases Schuhkin commissioned from Matisse...
But if Braque's figures lack personality, his still lifes possess it. One finds a whole cast of characters: tables, for instance, run the gamut from the stolid turned legs under The Pink Tablecloth to the drowned and tilted marine landscape of The Billiard Table, 1944-52, to the...
In one sense, in a French contex, La Tour was a magnificent vindication of provincial art. His style could hardly be further from the grand authoritarian rhetoric of Louis XIV. "No great painter ever refused more than Georges de La Tour," remarks Art Historian Jacques Thuillier. "There was never a...