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Some, like Princeton's Nell Irvin Painter, say they fear that Gates will be hampered by a University administration unwilling to fully sipport Afro-Am at Harvard...
...would be a betrayal to even think of finishing the Sagrada Familia . . . without genius. Let it remain there, like a huge rotting tooth." -- Catalan painter Salvador Dali...
...squabbles over the attribution of some of his early paintings. What they leave no doubt of is Van Dyck's precocity, the speed with which he metabolized the lessons of his master. In 1620, when he was only 21, he was hired by King James I as a court painter in London. A year later he was in Genoa, painting its nobles and dignitaries, making study trips to Rome, Florence and Palermo. By 1627 he was back in Antwerp, and by 1632 the new English monarch, Charles I, had brought him back to London, knighted him and made him "principalle...
...Dyck was truly a painter's painter. There is nothing intimidating about his work, as there often is about Rubens'. He loved private character and painted the interplay between that character and the public mask with a sensitivity that few artists have rivaled since. Sometimes he would seem to have done this by guesswork. His 1633 portrait of Henry Percy, "the Wizard Earl" who spent 16 years of his life immured in the Tower of London for his supposed complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, is an icon of saturnine intellect, from the same introspective domain as Robert Burton...
...FAUVE LANDSCAPE by Judi Freeman (Abbeville; $65). From 1904 to 1908, a group of painters changed the history of modern art. Their startling palettes and images are celebrated by an authority who agrees with one of them, a painter named Henri Matisse: "Fauve painting is not everything, but it is the foundation of everything...