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...legitimate ancestry. Cezanne, Seurat and Monet seized upon newly proposed theories of optics when they painted. In this century, such constructivists as Mondrian and Malevich were the forebears of op art's dry, highly controlled use of color, which sometimes-as in the work of Britain's labyrinth-making Jeffrey Steele, 33 (above) -amounts to rejecting color. When they do use color, however, it is to stimulate the first sense directly rather than to enhance forms...
FLORIDA has pink flamingos nuzzling in a garden, porpoises prancing in a pool, and a little gem of an art show. The 13 paintings and three sculptures, all masterworks, include a Rubens, a Veronese, one of Monet's wavery Water Lilies, a smoo h Brancusi bronze, a stark Soulages and Gaston Lachaise's Elevation...
...Then and there, he decided to be a modern painter. But to train his hand to follow his esthetic vision required enormous feats of selfdiscipline. Davis told how in 1927 he "nailed a rubber glove, an electric fan and an egg beater to a table and, like Monet with his haystack, stuck with that single subject for a whole year." What he learned was how to explore, distort and transform the objects into endless arrangements on the canvas. His aim was abstraction, but his eye was riveted to the real. And what fascinated his eye was everyday America-gas pumps...
...talent was evident at 22 in his abrupt, progressive vision of the orchestra at Paris' Cirque d'Hiver. In his private art he experimented with new ways of seeing; he tried his friend Monet's impressionism, exhausted the old masters, learned much from the arrangements of lights and darks painted by his contemporary Whistler (though Whistler called him "a sepulcher of propriety"). In his The Birthday Party, he used the blurry-faced male figure-who commissioned the work and approved of its final, unfinished look-as a foil to set off the foreground scene of a mother...
Prophets & Beasts. The focus of the collection was the postimpressionists, those who rejected the spontaneous, open-air naturalism of the early Monet, Pissarro and Degas. Two groups attracted the Hahnlosers' attention: the Nabis (or prophets, from Hebrew), and the later, more violently color-clashing...