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Some artists have all the luck; others, in the long run, have very little, and Nicolas de Stael was one of these. Born in 1914, a suicide at 41 in 1955, De Stael was practically the last painter of the School of Paris whose work had much impact on American taste, before the doctrine of U.S. national supremacy in painting took hold...
With the Communists out of power, painter Angela Hampel ought to be delighted. Far from it. Like many artists, Hampel, 34, is "disappointed in what has happened since November. We never expected the greed and scrabbling that we see now." In her Dresden studio, which is cluttered with scythes, sickles, knives, spikes and other graphic symbols of violence, hang pictures of suffering female figures. It is women, she predicts darkly, who will bear the brunt of a changing society, and her art is about the "hopelessness of their condition." This month in a Dresden gallery, Hampel opened a new exhibit...
MAURICE PRENDERGAST, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City. Prendergast evolved from a sign painter to one of the pathfinders of post- impressionism in the U.S. This retrospective traces the full arc of his progress. Through Sept...
...museums since the Russian revolution. As no reproduction has ever done justice to the peculiar intensity of the thin, washed, yet highly saturated color Matisse developed in Morocco, one is grateful that the components of this phase of his work have at last been reunited. Matisse was a mature painter of 42 when he went to Morocco, but what he learned from the trip struck to the very root of his development as an artist. He was tempted to make a third trip but never...
...Matisse's pictorial motives differed from those of all European artists who had visited "the Orient" before. French painters from the 1830s on, starting with Eugene Delacroix, had gone there in search of the picturesque, the exotic, the ready-made subject: mosques and Riffian horsemen, camels and harem slaves. By 1880 Orientalism had become a large fashion among salon painters and their clients. French artists brought their minutely realist style and their mildly prurient interests to Fez and Marrakech, and went back to Paris with both intact. To be influenced as a painter by Islamic art -- architecture, rugs, tiles, cloth...