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Beginning today a collection of prints showing decorative art motives will be on exhibit in Gallery 15 of the Fogg Art Museum. Arranged to illustrate the development of decorative art over a period of centuries, the collection is made up of engravings and etchings from the works of Rembrandt, Durer, Clodion, Hogarth, Van Dyke, and many others...
...died when she was through. Shortly after his marriage, through his brother-in-law he got a commission to draw cartoons for tapestries. Instead of classical subjects, Goya chose contemporary incidents, then an innovation. The tapestries established his fame, his social position. Goya said he had only three masters: "Rembrandt, Velasquez and Nature." Be cause his work only superficially resembles the first two, critics have generally agreed that the last was his best teacher. No mere portrait painter, he was able at his best to make a face reveal a biography. Of his portrait of Charles IV and his family...
...artist at the age of 9, later began decorating safes, bandwagons, grocery stores when he was not boxing, wrestling, carousing. A roistering Rabelaisian to the last, he spat sulphuric scorn at highbrow art dealers, highbrow criticism, highbrow notions of technique, all living foreign artists and most dead ones except Rembrandt, Renoir and Franz Hals. Typical comment : "Da Vinci is the bunk - a mathematician, a subway digger." Died. Conrad E. Biehl, 67, Colorado's "glass eye king"; by his own hand (carbon monoxide gas) ; in Pueblo, Col. His world-wide glass eye clientele included a Zulu chieftain. Died. Paul Painleve...
...Chicagoans wanted to see. A questionnaire showed they wanted to see September Morn and Rosa Bonheur's The Horse Fair. Mr. McCormick, remembering the art shambles at Chicago's 1893 Fair where every exhibitor was given space to hang what he liked, countered with the names of Rembrandt, Gauguin, da Vinci...
McCormick: Exactly. But at least you know that Rembrandt, Gauguin and da Vinci are dead...