Word: manneristic
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High point for this new Mannerist revival is the current, three-month-long exhibition assembled by Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. To show for the first time the full extent of Mannerist accomplishment, art objects ranging from bronze sculpture and oil paintings to glassware, furniture and sword hilts have been assembled from 155 museums and collectors. The show, though more a hit with critics and art-museum professionals than with the public, has already drawn 35,000 visitors. More significant, it has redefined the Mannerist century as an era rich in independent art style and as a seedbed for future...
...ironically, the very elements that so long kept the Mannerists in disgrace have been key factors in their reevaluation. As modern critics were quick to note, the outstanding Mannerist trademarks-distorted space and human figures, a desire to shock, obscurity and a withdrawal from nature in favor of recording an inner and often highly intellectualized vision-are major currents in 20th century modern...
...Mannerist artists sensed the full impact of the world in crisis, they began to warp reality to meet the mounting tension of their inner vision...
...hold the attention of his patrons, Tintoretto heightened the drama of his work, wrenching perspective and (Continued on page 83) filling his canvas with staring, hysterical figures. Parmigianino, following the new Mannerist dictum that form springs ready born from the artist's imagination, created a new kind of beauty, slender women with exquisitely enigmatic faces atop long, Modigliani-like necks. Courtiers, modeling themselves on Machiavelli's precepts, flocked to Bronzino for portraits that showed their faces expressionless masks, only a clutching hand or startled stare betraying their tension...
...relationship of man to woman, man to man, man to his surroundings, man to himself. Of course in trying to tell a story the form might sometimes get lost, but this is the only way, by God, to inject life into this cadaver that has fizzled out in mannerist painting...