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...city; it contains nothing topographical, nothing designed to evoke the scenography of the past -- no furniture, pseudo decor, multimedia "educational" clutter. Painting reigns supreme, on austere walls. All in all, this is the most comprehensive exhibition that has been devoted to the work and influence of a single Renaissance painter in living memory -- a feast for the eyes and a landmark in modern museum history...
...play, also in its U.S. debut, opens with Stevenson sitting near a naked male lover, calmly sketching -- and discoursing on the merits of -- his thighs and butt. She plays a Venetian Renaissance painter with a gift for epic scale who is commissioned, despite her gender, to commemorate the city's most glorious naval victory. The city fathers want patriotic myth. She insists on painting the horrors of battle, the pathos of the defeated and the dehumanization of the victorious, and sees this as woman's contribution to culture. "No man," she remarks, "honestly hates murder...
Even more perilous than the gunfire is what the Bosnians call bijela smrt, the creeping "white death" that comes when exhaustion leads to sleep in the snow and thence to death. Ramiz Bezdrob, a 66-year-old house painter, succumbed on the night of Feb. 27 trying to bring in food for his wife and five children. Four days later, other trekkers carried his emaciated body, his nostrils still plugged with ice, off the mountain on a primitive bier of branches. At least 50 people have frozen to death along the 26-mile route. Some of their bodies and those...
Literally "tearing it apart." Rothenberg's paintings over the next few years were all about dismemberment, blockage and fright. She is one of the younger artists who took heart from Philip Guston: in the early '70s, Guston, an abstract painter for years, had returned to the figure with a controversial set of seriocomic paintings of Ku Klux Klansmen, which laid the ground for his formidable "late" style and often featured stray boots, feet and arms...
Generally, Rothenberg seems to be at her best in paintings that combine a single image with anxious focus. In the later '80s she became preoccupied with a different, atmospheric style of painting and images of dancers (including one of her aesthetic heroes, the painter Piet Mondrian, imagined solemnly doing the fox-trot with a Rothenberg-like partner). In their cold, flickering, indistinct light, one catches long-distance echoes of Impressionism and of the sequential-position photography that was once copied by the Italian Futurists. In these, as in the drawings from this period, form is extremely provisional -- the shape...