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...Philosophers. No technique-detective or brushstroke spy, Author Eliot is instead one of the sun philosophers who value the lights that men and artists live by. Light is the sensuous hero of Sight and Insight: "Velásquez' light is like transparent golden bees swarming the honeyed shadow, while Rogier van der Weyden's is like water over marble . . . even when stealing into Vermeer's darkest interior by a narrow window, light is welcomed as a lover. The far corners whisper hello to light. Instead of humping their backs like angry cats the shadows under the furniture...
...atque Velásquez...
...long must your readers submit to the desecration of TIME'S pages by Picasso's pixilated picturizations? Perhaps Picasso cannot be prevented from producing such abominations as his version of Velásquez' Las Meninas [Dec. 22], but you don't have to encourage...
...never able to make anything out of the work of this saiaud Velásquez, that is, until Picasso and his dachshund sacrificed four months of their expensive time to interpret his Las Meninas by repainting it into "emphatic fragments." Thanks for reproducing the result...
Even abstract expressionists themselves have been rediscovering Velásquez. Perhaps the cold, snowy veil that abstraction has cast over almost the whole landscape of art has proved too chill, and they felt the need for a thaw, for seeing earth again. Both Dali and Picasso were trying to bring Velásquez's illusion-making genius into a new, dreamlike focus, distorting the original (as dreams do) by a breaking-up and jumbling-together process. Dali calls this "disassociation." Says Dali: "The impressionists made disassociation of light. The cubists made disassociation of forms. The surrealists made disassociation...