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...what engaged Callahan most was matters of the here and now, things like the unyielding mystery of other people and the intricacies of the visual world. For a time he repeatedly photographed his wife Eleanor, often in the nude. As muses go, she's nearly as familiar now as Rembrandt's wife Saskia or Picasso's serial wives and mistresses. But it would be a mistake to suppose that we know much about her from these pictures, where her impregnability is the plainest thing about her. For Callahan she's the human conundrum at the heart of the world. Lounging...
...major beneficiary of this trend was Rembrandt, whom Romantic writers in the early 1800s seized upon as an exemplar of the artist as Prometheus. As the demand for Rembrandts grew, so, mysteriously, did the supply. It is therefore worthwhile to note that several weeks before the Michelangelo and Shakespeare attributions, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, just two blocks north of the house in which the little Cupid stands, came to the end of its "Rembrandt/Not Rembrandt" exhibit. This show reflected the labors of the Rembrandt Research Project, an Amsterdam-based group of experts on Dutch painting...
...remote-control button? The snap answer is, hell no, we don't. But that is not really true. Aesthetics, for all the millions of words that have been written on the subject, remains an inexact science. We cannot say why a painting once supposed to be by Rembrandt loses face when its connection with the master is disputed or disproved, even though it looks just the same as it did when we admired it before. Nor can we understand the sudden compulsion to look anew at and find merit in the alleged Michelangelo Cupid and the reputed Shakespeare elegy...
...oddly clumsy one in some details of the human body--though he excelled in virtuoso rendering of inanimate objects, catching the moony sheen of pearls or the precise tautness of a viol's catgut strings. As an analyst of human character, he was quite vapid compared with Rembrandt or Frans Hals...
...REMBRANDT ON THE ROCKS: The discovery of dazzling drawings of rhinoceroses and other animals in a French cave suggests that prehistoric art did not mature in a simple linear fashion but may have been punctuated by the influence of individual geniuses. The images in the Chauvet cave date from 30,000 years ago, 12 to 18 millenniums before comparable ones at Lascaux, in France, and Altamira, in Spain, and much earlier than anyone thought possible for such realistic portraits...