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...evidence of this show, that Kline possessed neither the innovative powers of Jackson Pollock, nor the ramping, risky intensity of Willem de Kooning, nor the reflective pictorial intelligence that distinguishes the best work of Mark Rothko or Robert Motherwell. But he was still, when on form, a first-rate painter, well worth scholarly attention. So why have we seen so little of him? Because, it seems, the common curatorial view is that Kline was a backup man, not an innovator. This has chilled the interest of museums, if not the market. So, until a fuller retrospective comes along--this...
...caught in a trap. Cornish is a painter of the old world. The spirit that motivates him is meaningless in this world, so Cornish escapes by painting in the medieval style and becomes a forger...
...Building offers an older and more enduring view of human nature. Its characters get no points for race, religion, origin, social position or physical condition. Sin is apportioned without prejudice. The only salvation is madness or art, which may be the same thing. One tenant lectures to cockroaches; a painter cannot turn off his vision: "If he stops it will continue to come, escaping through his head into...
...brilliantly portrayed stallions and draft horses, Arabians and English racers in settings that vary from battlegrounds to stables. In his equestrian oeuvre, created over a span of some ten years, Gericault even depicted, with an unflinching naturalism, horses being devoured by lions. As Art Historian Philippe Grunchec notes, the painter's devotion to the animals had its tragic side, foreshadowed by some of these works: he died in 1824 at age 32 of complications from a riding accident...
...Golub: painter, Museum of Fine Arts, through...