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...task of unifying an exhibit which includes artists of very different periods, outlooks and media. Ranging from European to American artists, Renaissance to modern works, the show includes such notable pieces as a 15th-century German Printed book with woodcut illustrations. Canaletto's Imaginary View of Padua and Joseph Stella's Study for the Brooklyn Bridge...
...works which encourage the audience to reevaluate its perception of New York City, the definitive city, are Stella's Study for the Brooklyn Bridge and Edward Hopper's Manhattan Bridge. The spirit in which the artists view the city differs significantly. Stella's work presents the city as dynamic and energetic. The viewer stands at the end of the bridge, staring down its length, which narrows dramatically. The line, straight and bold, and color, electric blue and black, contribute to the powerful impact of the metropolitan bridge. Fast-paced and frightening in its resolute path, Stella's work represents...
...contrast, Hopper's Bridge attributes a desolate aura to New York City. The barren landscape, spotted with ware-houses and train tracks, is disrupted by a bridge cutting diagonally across the picture. Unlike Stella's work, this painting leaves an impression that is neither dynamic nor determined. The muted colors created by applying watercolor over graphite reinforce the dull emptiness of the industrial scenery...
...pieces perceive the city as a hopeful development. Canaletto reveals a romantic view of urbanity in his Imaginary View of Padua. A panorama of carefully distributed monuments reflects an idealized vision of the city. His pastoral image suggests a culture and refinement completely lacking both Stella's furor and Hopper's desolation...
...green curved objects in the left foreground melons, as some think, or the backsides of Muslims praying to Mecca? -- combine in a pictorial structure of wonderful explicitness and rigor. One sees in the work painters who would not be born for another 20 or 30 years: Frank Stella, Sean Scully. Clearly, though Matisse left Morocco, Morocco never left...