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Hodgkin's complete originality is in his color, which, as art historian Michael Auping says in the catalog, "has a strange quality of simultaneously seeming totally invented, yet completely natural." Its reds and lemon yellows, its blackened viridians and fiercely luminous blues, its swoony Whistlerian grays are like no other color in modern painting. They give his work a perverse to-and-fro between the intimate and the operatic--Aida done in a marionette theater. Such color isn't just showy. It can be extremely tender, intelligently seductive, in the way that art has every right to be. It also...
Among the thousands of nasty quips and barbed conceits that James Abbott McNeill Whistler sped at the world, the only one that everyone knows is perhaps apocryphal. Oscar Wilde, in admiration of some Whistlerian mot: "Jimmy, I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar, you will." In all his long career Whistler produced only one painting that enjoyed the same permanent celebrity as this riposte, and it, of course, is Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Painter's Mother, 1872, one of the half-dozen most famous pictures of the 19th century...
...never faded from view, yet he remains poised for rediscovery; and 1984, which marks the 150th anniversary of his birth, is the right year for it. The Hunterian Museum in Glasgow has put 79 of its Whistler oils on view until November. In the U.S. the main Whistlerian event, which opened last month at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C., and will run until December, is a display of paintings, drawings and notes, more than 300 in all, curated by Art Historian David Park Curry and assembled from the Freer's own collection, the world's largest source...
...avant-garde figure; his paintings had lost whatever experimental look they once had, and were surpassed by impressionism. Curiously, his biggest influence was on writing. Poets Stéphane Mallarmé found their own cult of the indeterminate, the penumbra of experience, confirmed in his work. The Whistlerian landscape of Thames kept turning up in English poetry for another generation-not least in The Waste Land, with its "brown fog of a winter dawn" lying on London Bridge. Marcel Proust so adored him that he purloined one of his gloves, as a souvenir, at a reception. Meanwhile, the paintings have...
Sketching by the soft light of a California morning, he looks vaguely like a whiskery Whistlerian portrait. Indeed, the first photographs of Henry Fonda, 76, since he underwent further treatment last year for a chronic heart ailment, provide a poignant glimpse of the actor recuperating at his home in Bel Air. Fonda keeps busy with an old passion, painting. Although he received a Best Actor nomination for his role in On Golden Pond, he has no plans to suit up for the Academy Awards in March. In fact, his only immediate chore is to rid himself of his facial hair...