Word: rubenses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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By 1975 Stella was convinced that abstract painting, for its own survival, would have to take practical lessons from old masters like Rubens and Caravaggio; it must find an "independent pictorial space to establish its ties with the everyday space of perceived reality." This ran counter to the whole argument...
Two days later in a lakefront tent at the Hotel Beau-Rivage in Geneva, another event began: the sale of the late Duchess of Windsor's jewelry, organized by Christie's rival auction house Sotheby's. Here was a nominal contrast at least, since though everyone admires Van Gogh, none...
The "narrative" of the galleries is split in half. On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are -- Daumier, Millet, the Barbizon painters, Fantin-Latour, the rural sentimentalists like Jules Breton, culminating in...
He had ample reason for suspicion. In 1974 Irish Republican Army sympathizers stole 19 paintings from the mansion and attempted to exchange them for $1.25 million and the transfer of several colleagues from English prisons to jails in Northern Ireland. The ransom was refused. Eight days later, the works were...
It was not unknown for the face to fall off a Reynolds portrait if it was shaken. Obsessed with technique, he was said to have scraped patches off his own Titian and Rubens, and was known to have destroyed a Watteau, in search of the "secrets" of the old masters...