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...White House many fine nonportrait paintings. There are still lifes by the Peales of Philadelphia, the U.S.'s first painting family. A porthole painting of Niagara Falls by John Kensett, a member of the Hudson River school, is typical of the characteristic U.S. landscape style in which the vista is distant and changeless...
...forward-facing third seat in the rear of their Special and F85 station wagons, the seat wound up perched on top of the rear axle-up so high that there was not headroom enough for a midget. General Motors' solution: raising half of the roof into a vista dome, a move that gives Buick and Oldsmobile the distinction of having the first station wagons styled like a Scenicruiser Greyhound...
...English painters as a whole may not have been after universal themes; but they caught an age for all time, with all its grace and majesty and the sordidness that lay beneath. A Constable landscape may be a vast vista of perfect peace; but Hogarth is not far behind to remind one, like a conscience, that art must also deal with filth, poverty and disease. The Mellon collection gives a fresh view of a time of stunning versatility and charm. To the English, art was a craft to be perfected with loving care, and the grace note was often...
Nolan's Young Monkey was inspired by a recent trip to Africa, but "in painting Africa I am certainly not ditching Australia. There are the same unfolding perspectives, vista upon vista. What I've done is to put the animal instead of the human in the landscape. The monkey seems, like Ned Kelly, to be a creature who has come out of the bush." In Explorer, Rocky Landscape, the protagonist looks as if he were attached, centaurlike, to his camel, as if the two were "united for survival." A century ago, explorers and traders introduced camels to Australia...
With an excited grin he embraced the vista, and started asking questions of his visitor: "What is the name of that hill in the background, I haven't found anyone who can tell me? What are those small boats (the answer was sculls)?" Then he pointed to two small ducks swimming blithely past an onrushing shell. "Look at that pair" he said, "my wife and I have noticed they are always together, and are never bothered by the boats...