Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer he goes to Stonington, Me. He has not been out of this annual orbit since his two years in Taos, N. Mex. in 1929-30, a period when he says the brilliance of light in the desert made him "continually dippy." Painters like Tintoretto, Rembrandt and Goya he usually refers to as "those old boys." Last week his first visit to Manhattan's Frick Gallery set him wondering what the old boys would think of him. He decided that they would be lenient...
...yell, get drunk, and pray") is mixed with the technique of shearing; observations on the sexual prowess of rams with gossip about his neighbors; market conditions with a description of bathing with his wife in washtubs ("one felt it as something out of Daumier or Cruikshank, of Degas or Rembrandt"); dissertations on the weather with proposed reforms for farmers' dress (kilts and beard...
...color, and an introduction by the eminent Critic Lionello Venturi. Lowest price was $1.50, for The Disasters of War, Goya's series of 85 etchings with a foreword by the late Elie Faure. Others were big books of reproductions of Titian, Cézanne, van Gogh, the Impressionists, Rembrandt...
...theft was the first of art objects since last year, when two Rembrandt sketches were taken from the walls of the Fogg museum...
...long ago an interviewer spoke of Snow White as a cartoon, and reported that Mr. Disney retorted: "It's no more a cartoon than a painting by Whistler is a cartoon." The remark, if made, sounds pompous, out of character. The Rembrandt conception fits better-the conception of an artist, single of purpose, utterly unselfconscious, superlatively good at and satisfied in his work, a thoroughgoing professional, just gagging it up and letting the professors tell him what he's done...