Word: rembrandt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...explored the same theme in etchings the size of a shirt cardboard. During his life, Ensor scratched out 133 etchings and drypoints whose quality and diversity rate the Flemish homebody an inglenook in the hall of fame of his great predecessors, Diirer, Rembrandt...
...artist must invent his style," Ensor said, "and each new work demands its own." He could etch the tranquillity of the soaring horizon of the lowlands as did Rembrandt. In one etching of 1888, Stars at the Cemetery, he used sulphur to corrode the copper plate, producing a luminous scumbled blanket like a modern abstractionist. Or equally, Ensor could foretoken the surrealists, as in his ironic view of a flaking skeleton titled My Portrait...
...prize acquisition of all is the Rembrandt Peale portrait of Thomas Jefferson, formerly in Baltimore's Peabody Institute. Another highly valuable addition is the Monroe portrait attributed to Samuel F. B. Morse, better known as the inventor of the telegraph. An Andrew Jackson by John Wesley Jarvis, done in 1819, was acquired to supplement Ralph Earl's Jackson, which Teddy Roosevelt's youngest son and playmates lambasted with spitballs one afternoon. The Blue Room portraits of James Madison and John Adams, however, are still only copies...
EDWARD RUSCHA, 25, paints what he calls "commercial landscapes. " Sometimes they consist of nothing more than enlarged scraps of lettering from comic strips. "I'm very amused by the subject matter," says Ruscha. "Just like Rembrandt- he probably...
Process of Becoming. Simon operates from offices in Los Angeles and a William Pereira-designed administration building in Fullerton. He works seven days a week, surrounded both at home and in his office by perhaps the best private art collection in California-from Rubens and Rembrandt to Picasso and Hans Hofmann. He serves on the University of California board of regents, and takes his intellectuality seriously, avoiding such normal business fare as cocktail parties and public functions. He and his wife like to give small dinners, at which the conversation is never as lowly as a tomato and the latest...