Word: lifesized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The crown is an iridescent fountain of bubbling jewels. Diamonds spill and shimmer like droplets of moonlight. At its pinnacle, a huge, rough-cut ruby stares like an evil red eye. The diamond crown of Peter the Great is one of 80-odd superb photographic still lifes of the Kremlin...
While Britain's postwar generation of Angry Young Men lash themselves into a low-powered tantrum over the grubby, provincial world they have inherited in the Brave New World of socialism, a group of young realist painters, known as the "Kitchen-Sinkers," celebrate with gusto the seamy world of...
In the next room Picasso takes up approximately where Cezanne left off. His Small Composition and a drawing, Head with Pipe, are comparatively early and in many ways as pure as the Cezannes. The two still-lifes of the twenties, controlled but more exuberant and a fuller statement of the...
In all fairness, though these are good Picassos they are not among the best. Why, is a question not easy to answer. Their color could not be improved. Their handling of shapes is as fine as anyone might hope. In theory everything is au juste. In practice, from afar, the...
Perhaps most ironic is the extent to which this exhibition reveals the influence of French art to which German expressionism has lately been opposed, especially the poetically inclined canvases of Erich Heckel. Karl Schmidt-Rottluff's Fauve period Harbor Scene is a product of the movement dominated by Matisse and...