Word: tiepolo
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...Here is Tiepolo's delight in wide, airy high space working as effectively in a brisk pen-and-wash sketch as on a Venetian ceiling...
...artist, by manipulating one of these three elements, could create the illusion of space or light, could create a mode in his work that is linear, sculptural, pictorial or visual. The exhibit uses familiar works from the Fogg's collection-works by Picasso, Matisse, Renoir, Copley and Tiepolo-as examples of these modes. The idea is grand, but a grand result never materializes. The exhibit is not organized with the idea that someone who knows nothing about color might want to explore it. That jargon is obscure and not explained is one example of this; another is that the pictures...
...pages of magazines like Réalties or Connaissance des Arts without experiencing a touch of nausea: this is what it has come down to, a ragout of flattering consumer objects floating in a buttery sauce of vicarious chic-Mercedes-Benzes and Daum crystal, Porthault linen and Andy Warhols, Tiepolo drawings and onyx washstands, Dubuffets and silver-garnished narwhal horns...
...painter. His characters do not so much act within his frame as carry their histories in with them. Powell rearranges them, models and highlights them, then steps back to give a leisurely commentary on his composition. In Temporary Kings, as if to underline the affinity, he creates an imaginary Tiepolo based on the ancient Lydian legend about Candaules, the king who exhibited his wife naked to his friend Gyges, only to be killed and succeeded by Gyges...
Mexico to which Strand devoted an entire portfolio in 1967, incorporates his most dramatic studies and most in-depth portraiture, Unequaled to any photo as the exhibition is "The Nets, Janitzio, Lake Patzcuaro" (Mexico `1933). Framing the glorious power of Tiepolo together with the social realism of Ben Shahs, Strand pictures a women on her knees spreading out fish to dry while the nets of the little fishing village, which are draped between wooden poles, from superimposed textures of romantic lace. From the upper lefthand corner, the clouds roll in, lighted by some heavenly power, fit for the play...