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...20th Century has known just one great religious artist: the 82-year-old French recluse, Georges Rouault. Moody and mystical by nature, Rouault strives to paint not the pleasing but the sublime, and he scorns the world's opinions. Yet inevitably the world is catching up with him. Far from Rouault's obscure Paris apartment last week, the Los Angeles County Museum was staging a full-scale retrospective of his vast lifework. Included were 50 paintings from an exhibition arranged by the Cleveland Museum of Art and Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, plus 39 more borrowed...
...Paris school of painting boasts five aged masters who probably have less in common than the members of any other "school" in art history. They are protean Pablo Picasso, bubbly Henri Matisse, smoldering Georges Rouault, sherbet-cool Georges Braque-and the least famous of the lot, Fernand Léger. The U.S. is getting to know Léger better this year, through a retrospective exhibition of his work arranged by Chicago's Art Institute. Last week, after a six-week stay in Chicago, the 125-item show opened at the San Francisco Museum of Art. Manhattan...
...stone in a wall. A mound of squarish slabs represents a bouquet; rectangular slabs in horizontal layers stand for a seacoast. De Staël's colors are sumptuous, often set off by solid chunks of coal black which supercharge the canvas in much the same way as Rouault's heavy black outlines...
...technique, Levine is an expressionist. He twists figures and features with an El Greco-like abandon, and trowels on hot & cold colors almost as lavishly as Rouault. But Levine dislikes the term: "Expressionism," he says solemnly, "puts too high a premium on subjective reactions...
France's generation of giants is becoming ancient. Fernand Leger is 71, Picasso past 70; Raoul Dufy is 75, Rouault 81, Matisse 82. Two months ago, another of the giants, white-haired Georges Braque, quietly passed his 70th birthday and calmly went about putting the last touches on his first exhibit in two years. Last week Paris got a chance to see Braque's new show and came away declaring that time had not yet dimmed the old master's artistry...