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...naturalistic interest in detail often becomes an emphasis upon the particular as opposed to the general. In Durer's Samson Conquering the Philistines, as in many Gothic inspired drawings, the strong emotionalism, the decorative detail, and the interlacing forms combine with some conscious symbolism to transform the highly realistic detail into a mystical iconography...
...Durer also applied his genius as a draughtsman and his innate sense of order to the achievements of the Italian Renaissance masters. He comprehended their rational approach and soon mastered their clarity and formal expression. While investigating the problems of perspective and the antique canons of proportion, Durer tried to instill his Germanic naturalism with a disciplined Renaissance structure. Yet even in his most formalized, classical drawings there remains a constant struggle between reason and intuition, between generalizing formalism and particularizing realism...
...Durer was coping with a transition between the German Middle Ages and a Renaissance in the North. Although he grew more classical and refined in his manner of expression, he remained, throughout his career, Gothic in spirit...
...intentions of this exhibition is to show how some of Durer's contemporaries and followers reacted to this period of artistic transition. The show's four drawings by Grunewald, working within the Late Gothic style, sacrifice the cold solidity of form, which was part of the Renaissance style, to intense emotional expressionism. Lucas Cranach the elder (see his Lucretia as shown here) employed serpentine line and drew expressionistic figures until he came under the influence of Durer's restrained style. He later abandoned his intimate detail for an economic and abstract style, although suggestions of restless Gothic form sneak into...
...newspaper strike, this exhibition of Durer and his Time has not received the publicity it deserves. Unfortunately, many Bostonians will miss the show. These 150 drawings, on loan from Berlin's Staatliche Museum, are the creme off the top of one of the world's finest collections of German drawing. Furthermore, the selection and hanging are a model of curatorial skill. Their arrangement successfully emphaisizes the traditions these artists worked within and their influences upon each other