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...reconfigured.”It’s possible to consider Degas’ depictions of women bathers in a historical context. Wolohojian says that it’s interesting to compare them to the classically languorous nudes of Ingres, whom Degas admired, or the confrontational ones of Manet. But it’s also impossible to contemplate these images without wondering about Degas’ relation to women. His bathers are beautiful, but they far from glamorous; sometimes their positions are awkward and unlovely. It’s an open question, Wolohojian says whether Degas’ depiction...
...million dollars for a single concert and never less than $100,000. "The Soviets can't afford me," he jokes, but Horowitz will receive about $2.5 million dollars for TV and recording rights to his five-concert series. His extensive art collection--which included works by Rouault, Degas, Manet and Picasso--was sold off when the insurance became prohibititive, and replaced with a Japanese silk-screen painting and a Chinese mirror painting. The big Steinway commands the living room, when it is not on the road with him. Near by on the wall are four autographed photographs: Paderewski, Rachmaninoff, Puccini...
...hearing him talk about his work, I’m sure that he could give you at least ten different layers of meaning for any single one of his pieces, ranging from art historical references (as in series of pieces based on, among other things, the dimensions of various Manet paintings) to personal associations (that shiny bike on top of the piano was a gift from a friend who lived near Prina in L.A., a kind of token to remember the Latino culture of his old neighborhood), to self-reflexive allusions to his own work (a substantial portion...
...Madonna with the Yarnwinder from Drumlanrig Castle near Dumfries, Scotland. That case is still unsolved. So is the most spectacular art robbery in the U.S., the 1990 break-in at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Thieves disguised as policemen made off with 13 pictures, including a Manet, three Rembrandts and Vermeer's magnificent small canvas The Concert...
...girl's pose is an inversion of the reclining European nude--Manet's Olympia flipped. She lies at an improbable angle across the bedding, but the very awkwardness of her position gives her weight within the picture, and by extension, the world. Even when, in The Ancestors of Tehamana, he painted the same girl more conventionally, in an upright and frontal pose and a modest Western dress, he placed her before a stylized background of native spirits and glyphic letters borrowed from the Rongorongo tablets of Easter Island. Those tablets have never been fully decoded. Neither has Gauguin...