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...Canaille, Cassis, Opus 200, 1889, is a superb example. The day is fading. The tartans, or lateen-rigged fishing boats, triangular scraps of white sail on the blue, are flocking back to port. The pallid horizon is delicately tinted with pink, lavender, yellow. The foreground, with its purple house and lavender rocks, is already darkening. But the sunset has lit up the prismatic shape of the headland to a blazing orange-yellow, a thrilling and almost transcendent intensity. It is the kind of painting that can absorb any amount of looking, and after 10 minutes with it you can appreciate...
...idea that again recurs in the symbolic piece, “140,” which draws its name from the number of the sonnet that inspired it. The staging is simple yet effective. As the vignette begins, the stage is partially lit, with two characters in the foreground and others behind, all connected by ropes that they hold fast. As a web of deception and disloyalty is gradually woven, the ropes become increasingly tangled. This symbolism works surprisingly well because of the scene’s deliberate unraveling...
...lives was the acoustic stuff, but that changed over time.” In live performances Dispatch not only know how to keep the crowd pumped with rip-roaring guitar tricks and drum beats, but also feature a brand of play that keeps all of them in the foreground...
...viewer would most likely expect the “sacra conversazione” to be the altarpiece’s main attraction, the altarpiece’s exceptional background is surprisingly the cause of debate. Rather than coinciding an iconic religious background with the conventional religious imagery in the foreground, the artist unexpectedly copied a secular landscape from Guilio Campagnola’s print “Shepherds in a Landscape” as this altarpiece’s background. Rather than the conventional background of golden leaves and angels, the viewer instead finds a background of trees and pastures...
...composition that anticipates what Cezanne came to in the 1880s. Still Life with Salmon, 1866, is such a painting, a wonderful balance between stability and its opposite: you can feel the weight of the fish and the density of the white tablecloth, but the knife in the foreground is precariously balanced, and the blue bowl with a lemon in it has been tipped, self-consciously and for no very apparent reason, toward your...