Word: velasquez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Insurgent, he did not crusade. He taught instead. Born in Cincinnati of French-English-Irish descent, he studied at the Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the Paris Beaux-Arts. French precision and orthodoxy never made him feel com fortable. Strolling the corridors of the Louvre, he revered Rembrandt, Velasquez, Hals, but was long unable to evolve con victions of his own. Like most fine artists, he remained, even after success, a student of the masters. "Put on a pair of false whiskers so you won't be bothered," he wrote. "I am thinking of a series of disguises...
...occasional instances. They have produced a painter like Mary Cassatt, but Painter Cassatt specialized in women & children, in subjects bound to be peculiarly within a woman's scope: like Rosa Bonheur, whose specialty was domestic animals. There are no women's names to be ranked with Velasquez, Franz Hals, Romney, Holbein. True, in literature they have done more with such handmaidens as George Eliot, Jane Austin, Charlotte Brontë, to put against Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe. But in music the situation is back again on a par with painting. Women have given birth to no great music. There have...
...Velasquez." Professor Post, New Fogg Museum, small room...
...little pictures of the White Church of Arequipa, Peru, and the Churches of Cuautla in Mexico are fresh and charming, and the Canal View done in Venice recalls Corot's sketches of Rome. The Boy Reading and the Musicians suggest the full chi, aroscuro method of Velasquez. There is an interesting and spirited copy of the Olivarez of Velasquez. To emphasize Dr. Ross' relation to the great masters is certainly not to deny his originality but rather to praise his achievements which are rooted in a study of the best precedents of the past...
...Never was faith better placed. Under Carolus Duran, dutiful young John Sargent so "persevered in the Pine Arts" that he had no time for Parisian gaiety. In a negligee Bohemia his dress remained correct. Amid fads and fashions ornate, voluptuous, bizarre, he followed only Frans Hals and Velasquez. He learned, thoroughly, to build on true middle values, to accent with strictest simplicity...