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Through them we are made privy to the sight of Rubens inventing half a dozen variations on a given arm until the right one clicks; to that of Watteau, infatuated with the silky passage of red chalk over paper, building up his stock of memory images and usable prototypes for...
The show sets out to tell the story of the professional artist in America. Its starting point is not the folk artist but the painter with academic training (or pretensions to it) whose gaze was fixed on largely European role models. These role models had to be theorized about, because...
If Excavation and Attic were perhaps the greatest paintings of de Kooning's long career, the best known are certainly the Women. De Kooning has always been obsessed, as a painter, with the bodies of women, quoting them in whole and in detail, with a unique mingling of distance...
He meant to claim the same kind of filial attachment to Matisse that Delacroix (another household god) had to Rubens. To those whose idea of modernism was modeled on Oedipal battle, that was not enough. Hence the feeling, not yet dispelled in all quarters of the art world, that Motherwell...
Granted, I seem to hold opposing opinions from page to page, but this is in character with a man of mixed Roman Catholic and Jewish heritage, and who wrote a novel about the search for a vocation only to find, at the end of seven volumes, that his intended career...