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...keep count, is the second deadly sin. Pride is the first, and lust is No. 3, though not necessarily in order of popularity. In Lawrence Sanders' new novel, these and most of the other numbered transgressions come into play as someone murders Painter Victor Maitland at his studio in Lower Manhattan...
...Painter-Diplomat. Fame, money and beautiful lovers-such, Freud tells us, are the chief goals of an artist's life. No painter ever achieved them more fully than Rubens. In a Europe riven by religious and political conflicts, he was one of the first true cosmopolitans: he was both painter and diplomat, and on delicate negotiations (as with his efforts to make a treaty between Spain and England, for which Charles I duly knighted him), Rubens the court portraitist served as splendid cover for Rubens the agent. He spoke five languages fluently, knew almost everyone of significance...
...great Entombment of Christ, 1613-15, for instance, is taken almost directly from Caravaggio. The modern cult of originality would have meant nothing to Rubens; he would have regarded it as a form of self-emasculation. The point was to add while taking, and that Rubens did superbly. No painter in previous European art was so capable of rendering the fullness of sentient life...
Rubens continued to influence European art, especially in France, for 250 years after his death, supplying prototypes to generations of painters from Van Dyck to Fragonard, from Watteau to Delacroix, and even to Cezanne. But there is no way he can seem a "modern" painter now-as Caravaggio...
...rise in this admirable artist's reputation over the past ten years has had much to do with the slow realization in America that serious art is indivisible, that the mere fact of being American does not conscript a painter into a doomed Oedipal struggle with his European ancestors, that the battlegrounds of art history soon revert to pastures. There is no secret about Motherwell's sources: cubist collage, surrealism, Matisse. In fact, his own collages -perhaps the most consistently beautiful body of work produced by any artist in the past five years-could not exist without...