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The hesitant juxtaposition of contemporary works with older ones also creates a problem in the show. The collection includes some fascinating modern pieces that are perhaps more effective than the "standard" still lifes in exploring the real role of the genre. The contemporary works often play with scale, color, or...
"Grand Illusions" reserves the last gallery for 20th-century still lifes and scatters other contemporary works throughout the rest of the show (which again brings up the question of classification--why are some of the 20th-century works in their own gallery and others interspersed in the other rooms?). In...
The lack of eloquence is realistic; Tarantino never forgets that his characters are really just a bunch of ignorant low-lifes. When Mr. Blonde asks the newly ear-less cop, "Was it as good for you as it was for me ?", we get the feeling that he really means: "I...
Rubens, perhaps the greatest name in seventeenth century Flemish art, worked primarily in the cosmopolitan city of Antwerp. During the Protestant Reformation, Antwerp was torn apart by fierce religious battles. Only when the devout Catholic Spanish archdukes Albert and Isabella were installed there as governors in 1599 was hope restored...
Few other paintings in his career show the same fine play between aesthetic intent and illusionism. Usually it's the eye-fooling that wins. The comment of a great American Modernist, Marsden Hartley, is cited by one essayist: "In Harnett there is nothing to bother about, nothing to confuse, nothing...