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ONE of the world's richest private collections, amassed by Spain's late Francisco de Assis Cambo, was back home last week after a 3½-year tug of war between Argentina and Spain. As the cream of the collection was readied for hanging in Barcelona's...
Tricks & Skids. Willem de Kooning's Gotham News uses just about every trick in painting, except illusion, to create excitement. It is juicy à la Rubens, gaudy à la Delacroix, emphatic à la Vlaminck -and utterly ambiguous. Being too agitated for the purposes of either decoration or contemplation, De...
American taste regarding the great Flemish master has favored graphic works in European museums. The Puritan strain seems to be repelled by the fleshiness of the great Baroque paintings as well as by their Counter-Reformation fervor and ostentation. Although they often lack the immediate brilliance and awesome sweep of...
Rubens once remarked, "My endowments are of such a nature that I have never wanted courage to undertake any design however vast in size or diversified in subject." The truth of this is evidenced in the variety of subjects even in this limited collection of his works. There are statue...
Rubens' paintings show a grandness of conception that reminds me of Michelangelo. The larger than life figures of the Renaissance master are, however, classical in their dignity and spirituality. In contrast, Rubens' figures are treated romantically. They are overly real and sensual. Passions are magnified rather than reason or the...