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...Wyeth's stature as a modern American artist. Theodore Stebbins, curator of paintings at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, puts Wyeth "in a category all by himself. Being what he is brings up debate on what art is: realism vs. abstraction. He is a beautiful draftsman, a brilliant watercolorist, a very fine painter. In his field, Wyeth is an outstanding figure." Many critics in the Manhattan art scene, however, find him stubbornly irrelevant. "Wyeth's philosophy is Poor Richard's Almanack," sniffs Henry Geldzahler, former curator of 20th century art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "His skies have...
...that he has an assistant, hoists and a crane; but the preservation of Liberman's peculiar touch on such a scale is impressive. Where, for instance, did he get the great squashed cylinder that went into Ascent, 1970 (opposite)! "Well," says Liberman in the tone of a watercolorist explaining a wash, "we got two bulldozers and ran the boiler against a tree until it looked right." And if it had looked wrong? "Then another boiler, I suppose...
That supreme musical watercolorist of English post-Romanticism, Frederick Delius, is known best today for such delicately tinted orchestral tableaux as Brigg Fair, Over the Hills and Far Away and On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring. Last week at the Opera Society of Washington, his opera Koanga made it clear that Delius. who died in 1934, could also be effective with strong colors on a broad canvas...
Death by Culture. In Man on Horseback, one anonymous watercolorist was ignorant of the rules of perspective, but he was uninhibited in his use of color, filled all the available space with decorative plants and boughs. To capture the clipper ship's surge through the mountainous seas, another anonymous painter resorted to ritualistic formality, reminiscent of a Japanese print. Ironically, what spelled the death of such original flights of fancy was the spread of culture. When the amateur artist was forced to compete with cheap lithographs and daguerreotypes, he copied them in all their banality, and thereby lost...
...focus more light on the dark room. Their efforts came to a climax last week with the opening of a major Marin retrospective at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.* Of the 91 paintings on display, more than a third are oils, a medium in which the famed watercolorist was fully at home...