Word: mannerists
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...large exhibition of the work from this all-American mannerist's post-Pop years is now on view at the St. Louis Art Museum, titled "Roy Lichtenstein, 1970-1980." The show will be traveling the museum circuit for years, from Seattle to Tokyo via New York, Fort Worth, Cologne, Florence, Paris and Madrid. Organized by Art Historian Jack Cowart, it contains 110 works that together give a good view of the march of Lichtenstein's stylizations...
...lush romantic tree grottoes filled with exotic birds. But to see him as a reclusive American eccentric, a man working solely out of private fantasy, is to miss one major point of his art: its continual dialogue with the work of other artists, not only the Renaissance and mannerist painters whose images he selectively filched (as in his Medici Prince and Medici Princess boxes), but also those of the 20th century...
...most romantic and picturesque spaces, like an old Polish synagogue, that recent architecture has to offer. Nothing in this building could be called revivalist;, everything is quotation and proposition, exaggerated detail held in parentheses. Venturi seems to be expressing the same sort of relationship to the past that theorizing mannerist architects like Vasari, in the 16th century, had with Michelangelo's more heroic prototypes...
...Freedberg, who admits to not caring for American art, is an expert in Italian "mannerist" paintings. This decadent school following the great period of rennaissance can be recognized by attenuated figures and women gazing maukishly heavenward amid swirls of skillfully painted drapery and arabesques--interesting to him perhaps, but to ordinary bread eating mortals like ourselves they are better for giving away than viewing...
...most acrid denunciations were reserved for Rembrandt and Rubens, in whose "dark caverns" and "hellish brownness" the true lessons of Raphael and Michelangelo were, in his opinion, lost. His own images were overwhelmingly linear, his style based on outline and infill. The line recalls its 16th century sources in mannerist engravings (Blake never crossed the channel, and so had to depend on prints for his contact with Michelangelo). His famous Glad Day, showing Albion, the spirit of resurgent England, in mid-dance with his arms flung ecstatically wide, was based on a mediocre diagram of Vitruvian...