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...carver's trade is as tedious as his art is exquisite, it turns out, and this time-consuming aspect of his craft has opened a deep rift between the decoy man and his colleague the waterfowl painter. The man in the decoy dodge calls the man who employs canvas a "flat artist," putting a spin of denigration on the term. Flat art frequently commands a much higher price than the decorative decoy, which often takes much longer to produce. Therein lies the rub. The painter responds that if his work is any good, it is just as exacting-only...
...carver labors under a marketing burden the painter does not have. According to Scott Beatty, a big, strapping accountant in Easton and president of this year's festival, "Anywhere you have a wall in your house, you have a place for flat art. But you have to think hard about where you're going to put a bird...
...change reflects new fashions in art. Impassive styles of the 1960s and '70s - the chaste morsels of minimalism, the arctic pleasures of conceptualism - are now well in retreat before a wave of gesture, expressionism and all the tumult of "painterly" painting. Encouraged by a climate favoring vigor and personality, artists are propelling the brush past the borders of the canvas or turning out sculpturally elaborated frames that complement work in which the hand prevails. At the same time, a general drift away from resolutely flat abstractions and a return to representational painting have revived notions of the picture...
...innocent eye, an intelligent heart: these are the gifts that nature bestows on her artists. As a painter of the second stature, Monsieur Ladmiral (Louis Ducreux) possesses each gift in decorous sufficiency. His eye captures moments with piercing clarity; his heart helps him appreciate their evanescence. For old Monsieur is going to die soon. Now each day is unique-even this summer Sunday at his country home about 1912, when his children and grandchildren will come to visit, and memories will flip by like snapshots from a lost family album...
...Stubbs was not just an interesting minor artist but a thoroughly absorbing one who often rose to greatness-as well as the best horse painter who ever lived. And since the exhibition of his work that opened Oct. 17 at London's Tate Gallery-102 paintings along with 77 drawings and prints-will go, with some substitutions and deletions, to the Yale Center for British Art in February, American museumgoers will be able to test for themselves the feeling, now spreading in England, that Stubbs is to be ranked with Turner and Constable in English painting. Whether one feels...