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...problem for art-dictionary compilers is simple in its essence but in fact appallingly complex: the explosion of art-historical information in the past half-century. If you graphed its quantity, the line would run almost flat from Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century to John Ruskin in the mid-19th. But in the 20th century, and especially in the past 40 years, the line has gone almost vertical...
...London's Tate Gallery, Paris' Musee d'Orsay and the National Gallery of Art in Washington (where it is on view through Aug. 20) offers the evidence. Whistler was an artist whose legend as wit, dandy and aesthetic kamikaze--for what was his libel suit against the critic John Ruskin but a suicide mission, compelled by his own claims to "Southern honor"?--continued after his death and became a barrier to appraisal of his work. One would prefer to think that Whistler the artist flies free of Whistler the celebrity, the "personality." Not so. On one hand, his pose...
...sheer visual dissection in this show, such as the view from the studio window, Wasteground with Houses, Paddington, 1970-72, or Two Plants, 1977-80, in which it seems that every leaf of hundreds has been given its own specific color, structure and marking in a way that John Ruskin might have approved...
...Ruskin would not, however, have approved of Freud's nudes, any more than some feminists do today. These figures, splayed under the inquisitorial electric light and the downward gaze of the artist, are the mainstay of his work, and the fierceness with which they reject the softening conventions of the "studio nude" has provoked a bumper crop of balderdash about Freud's supposed misogyny and sexism. (Freud's own riposte, in a recent interview, was terse: "I think the idea of misogyny is a stimulant to feminists, and it's rather like anti-Semites looking for Jewish noses everywhere...
Through Feb. 20. "Turner-Ruskin-Nor ton-Winthrop." Grenville Winthrop's collection of over 600 will be highlighted by an exhibition of prints by and after the great British Romantic landscapist Joseph Turner (1775-1851). Turner's interest was spurred by his education at Harvard under Charles Eliot Norton, who was in turn deeply influenced by John Ruskin, the British critic...