Word: realist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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COURBET RECONSIDERED, Brooklyn Museum, New York City. Vast landscapes, lavish nudes and masterly portraits in an ambitious retrospective of paintings by the 19th century realist. Through...
COURBET RECONSIDERED, Brooklyn Museum, New York City. Vast landscapes, lavish nudes and masterly portraits in an ambitious retrospective of paintings by the 19th century realist. Through...
COURBET RECONSIDERED, Brooklyn Museum, New York City. Vast landscapes, lavish nudes and masterful portraits in an ambitious retrospective of paintings by the 19th century realist. Through...
...real masterpiece, done in 1858-67 after he got back to Paris from his studies in Rome: The Bellelli Family, that marvelously observed group portrait of his neurotic aunt Laura, her lazy and distracted husband Gennaro and their two daughters. For though it is a tour de force of realist observation -- how much more concrete and present the Bellellis seem to us, surrounded by the furniture and other stuff of their lives, than the people on the neutral brown grounds Manet borrowed from Velazquez! -- it is also an allegory of family continuity under stress. The drawing on the wall behind...
...complicated and sometimes elusive painter is seen with an unprecedented -- and probably never to be duplicated -- completeness in the huge show of more than 300 works being unveiled by the Metropolitan Museum this week. Never mind the crowds and souvenir selling. This retrospective superbly presents Degas as the exemplary realist, an artist who was an engine for looking, a being whose destiny was to study La Comedie Humaine...