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...Raphaelite and Early French Symbolist Art in the Fogg Collection, thru...
Labels as diverse as fantasist, caricaturist, romantic and symbolist have been applied to Malamud, but he laughs at these terms and suggests: "tragico-comico, realistico-fabulistico; the more the merrier!" As for the themes often singled out in his stories--defeated love and failed ambition, imprisoned souls and claustrophobic lives, spiritual rebirth and redemptive suffering--he asserts that these are universal, and are there for anyone who wants to find them. "Not everything I put in consciously is noted, and people find things in my work I never knew were there. I try not to interpret my works to others...
...minted atmosphere. But pattern was the core of his work, most dramatically in the 1890s, when he produced a run of paintings, including some remarkable self-portrait studies, that anticipated the later Matisse in their schematization of form. But he remained stubbornly unaffiliated; even within the Symbolist group he was somewhat an outsider to the letter of their theory since, among other points of difference, he thought Gauguin's pictures "pedantic." Vuillard never allowed method to diminish sensation. "I do not belong to any school," he declared at 23. "I simply want to do something that is personal...
...legend is also false. Gauguin's art was neither freed nor even significantly changed by the South Seas. When he left France in 1891, he was no Sunday painter but a mature artist with a circle of admirers that included Van Gogh, Maurice Denis and the Symbolist poets. Tahiti served only to inject new subjects into a vision and manner that had already set. This fact, crucial to an understanding of Gauguin's art, is elegantly documented in a selection of his pre-Tahiti paintings that opens this week at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The show runs from...
...cellars of human sleep. He painted The Tower of Babel as an allegory of old Antwerp, but young Manhattan's towers might as well have been meant. Two Monkeys may be seen as just a humanist's sympathy for the misery of chained animals -or as a symbolist's protest against the plight of the Flemish provinces under the rule of Spain...