Word: poussins
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...Reynolds painstakingly studies such bygone greats as Donatello and Poussin ("You never get to the end of a bloke like Poussin"), but at night he is his own master, stays up until the late hours painting & repainting his personal phantom world. His fantastic landscapes have the same wonderful eeriness as Graham Sutherland's thorny abstractions, but they are quieter, as delicately brushed as fine Japanese watercolors. In each he takes the ordinary sights of rural England, twists and molds them into subtle generalizations on nature...
Organized by the French Government and circulated by the Smithsonian Institute, the exhibit includes works by such French artists as Clouet, Poussin, Degas, Fragonard, and Claude...
...American G.I.s and tourists. "No picture survived this period," he says. "I sold them all to buy food and drink." Nights, he went to the galleries, and there he found what he wanted to do. He liked such old French masters as the 17th century's Nicolas Poussin, the 19th century's Eugene Delacroix, such moderns as Switzerland's Alberto Giacometti (TIME, July 2, 1951) and Britain's Francis Bacon. The much-admired decorative style of the Matisses is not for Paddy Swift. "Art," he thinks, "is obviously capable of expressing something more closely related...
Upstairs, they opened more windows as escape hatches behind them, passed by portraits by Van Dyck, paintings by Poussin, frescoes by Ingres. Into the tiny chapel they went, and headed directly for the altar, where two pictures hung: on the right, a small (28 in. by 35 in.) Infant Jesus, believed to be a Rubens; on the left, Angel Playing Violoncello, attributed to Raphael. Down came the paintings, frames and all. From concealed drawers the thieves took finely wrought vestments and a gold wafer dish. Then out they went, as silently as they had come. Paris newspapers estimated their choosy...
...Paris was liberated, he copied a watercolor sketch by Poussin "as an exercise in self-discipline." He greeted the first American soldiers who came to his studio with kisses, exclaiming: "You two are so lovely...