Word: pastorale
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Artists, often quite dissimilar ones, share common sources. The themes of pastoral delight, installed in Venetian art by Giorgione (represented here with one rare, very rubbed drawing) and given monumental form by Titian, spread south and north through the influence of the Giorgionesque engravers Giulio and Domenico Campagnola. Watteau copies...
$ It was often observed -- first about Giorgione, and so on through to the 18th century -- that the pastoral mode was harder to decipher than religious or historical painting. There is not much narrative precision in Watteau's fetes galantes: these little societies of the elect, privileged folk in their shining...
But this was exactly what gave pastoral its modern quality. Modernism resisted clear narrative. It wanted to evoke mood and sensation. And in its early years at least, it was drawn to the discreet presence, strung along the shores of the Mediterranean, of an elegiac classical past. The figures in...
It may be that the pastoral mode is on its last legs today, weakened by irony and excess self-consciousness; although a vivid little tablet of color by Howard Hodgkin, In the Public Garden, Naples, 1981-82, argues that it can still be used without a false note. But this...
Nymphs, shepherds and deliciously mellow nature: a fascinating two- part show in Washington traces the pastoral vision in painting from Giorgione to Matisse.