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...heirs-Boucher, Pater, Lancret-would embody rococo. But Watteau died in 1721, just over a year before Louis XV was crowned. Thus the artist whose feathery trees and pastoral scenes of gallantry seem the very essence of rococo sensibility only reached the edge of the rococo. His time was that of Louis XIV, the Sun King. If the intimacy of his art seems so far from the bemusing pomp of Versailles, it is partly because his imitators lagged; it took time to convert the scenography of Watteau's fugitive, shadowed mind into a system of decor suitable...
True, alas. But whereas Chéreau's épater le bourgeois production eventually was seen as a bold, original interpretation that one could take or leave but not ignore, Hall's is something else again. It lacks precisely the quality that defined Chéreau's work: a conceptual framework...
Clark's principal mentors were Walter Pater and Bernard Berenson. To the latter he maintained a long though not always harmonious apprenticeship. In an autobiography, Another Part of the Wood, he spoke of Berenson "perched on the pinnacle of a mountain of corruption." In return, Berenson complained that when Clark sold a painting, he was a gentleman improving his collection, whereas when Berenson did the same thing, he was a dealer turning a profit. It is certainly true that Clark's inherited wealth-his great-great-grandfather had invented the cotton spool-enabled him to do his work...
...parents, German immigrants grown wealthy in America, gave him five younger siblings, some of whom spent their lives wondering when Alfred would ever grow up. From his teens onward, when he was drawn to photography and modernism in painting and sculpture, the bourgeois he most wanted to épater were his closest kinfolk. Yet he was free to indulge in bohemian pursuits, secure in the knowledge that his family could, however grudgingly, afford...
...Jack Riordan 3 61 330 1 Scott McCabe 5 65 206 2 Tim McGugan 5 34 126 2 Pass Receiving Player G CT Yds Lo TD Mike Granger 5 15 157 27 0 John O'Brian 5 13 172 26 2 Jim Garvey 6 12 192 62 2 Pater Quartararo 5 11 254 71 0 Tackling Leaders Player Tackles Assists Total Joe Azelby 36 17 36 Andy Noian 30 7 37 Joe Margolis 27 7 34 Scott Murzer...