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...noted New York painter has accepted a position in the Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) Department as the first of two artists to be hired following the recommendation of a visiting committee two years ago, professors confirmed yesterday...
...visiting committee, responding to a number of angry students, recommended in its report that offerings in studio arts be increased and improved. In addition to the appointment of a painter, the report called for the hiring of a sculptor...
There is no point in pretending that Poussin is an easy painter for today's viewers to get at. He has the disadvantage, for a coarsely expressionist culture, of being incapable of vulgarity or cheap sentiment. His pictures don't reach out across 3 1/2 centuries to diddle your heartstrings. His imagery springs from qualities of feeling and modes of thought that are now almost extinct: educated piety, allegory and complete familiarity not only with the Bible and the Greek and Latin classics from Homer to Ovid, Horace and Plutarch, but also with their Renaissance descendants, such as Tasso...
Poussin's pictorial thought -- for he was, supremely, a thinking painter, to whom ratiocination was the very breath of creativity -- was formed by two powerful influences. One was the ideas of the Counterreformation, spearheaded by the Jesuits, who called for clarity and vividness in sacred images. The other was the legacy of ancient Rome -- the immense residue of form and narrative from the classical past. There seems to be no evidence one way or the other about Poussin's religious life or the strength of his faith. Probably he was neither pious nor a freethinker, but a stoic who could...
...there were the traces of ancient Rome, a buried organism whose disarrayed bones protruded everywhere: columns, capitals, broken herms, arches, battle sarcophaguses, furnishing Poussin with a repertoire of prototypes to which his imagination would ceaselessly return. Poussin had to live in Rome in order to become the leading French painter of his age, changing the status of French art from afar by the gravitational force of his own achievements...