Word: painterly
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...When Phelan, a prominent New York City painter, first came to Harvard, it was with a mandate. She was charged with bringing top artists to Harvard to teach undergraduates to make art as well as study it, a strategy that by all accounts has been wildly successful...
...closer together and rather more connected than in Italy or France. Artists circulated with more ease among them, so firmly shaped local "schools" are not so easy to find. But if there was one artist totally identified with Delft in the 17th century, it was Vermeer--the only great painter to be born there, live there and (in 1675, at the early age of 43) be buried there...
Delft had one outstanding painter of Protestant churches, Gerard Houckgeest, whose beautifully bare Interior of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft with the Tomb of William the Silent, 1650, is composed with fanatical, emphatic strictness and gave rise to a whole dynasty of memorial church interiors. There were a few fine flower painters, like Balthasar van der Ast, whose elaborate portrait of variegated tulips in a vase could not, as the catalog interestingly points out, have been done from life. (At the height of the Dutch tulip mania, such rare blooms would never have been cut for a painter; he would...
...from the start of his career. Thus the earliest of the 15 Vermeers in this show--because of the massive borrowing power of the Met, it contains nearly half his known output--is his one and only mythological scene, of the moon goddess Diana. The favorite Diana myth among painters showed her bathing with her nymphs (good opening for a painter to show what he could do with pretty nudes) and spied upon by a Peeping Tom of a hunter, Actaeon; whereat the virgin moon goddess, her modesty offended, changed him into a stag. In Vermeer's version, circa...
...technique aside, the Fogg establishes Mondrian not only as a painter but as a thinker—willing to challenge the traditional opposition between black and white and color and the opposition of shapes and lines. The Fogg’s superb exhibit allows opposition to become unity within the boogie woogie of a Mondrian...