Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sir Anthony Van Dyck was one of the best art students that ever lived, and the special pet of Antwerp's great painter Peter Paul Rubens. In Antwerp's Koninklijk Museum last week, painters and art lovers were learning from Student Van Dyck. The exhibition, in celebration of...
The seventh child of a rich silk merchant, Van Dyck was an artist at 16, with his own studio and students. He did fine, for Antwerp rattled with commerce and bulged with gold; and its beefy, bearded burghers all wanted portraits of themselves and their wives. But the aristocratic little...
Next day, De Chirico's own paintings came in for some hard words. "The new De Chirico," said the Manchester Guardian, "is evidently a great admirer of Rubens. The knights in armor, the nudes and most of the landscape backgrounds appear to derive from that artist . . . but the overemphatic...
The lesson seemed obvious: in art, as elsewhere, imitation is dull sport. The hundreds of suckling surrealists who had aped De Chirico's youthful work had accomplished very little. And when De Chirico himself took to imitating Rubens, and other long-dead masters, such as 17th Century Romantic Salvator...
Perle Mesta is shaped to the mold of a Rubens model who has reached the age of a Helen Hokinson character. Her figure requires stern corseting; she carries a diet book in her purse, consults it before ordering. Except for her parties, she hates to spend money. Once she walked...