Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norman's stuff art-and who says so? Me, I happen to think Rockwell's best work is as good as Rembrandt's-and I think Rembrandt was terrific. Is it because Rockwell is commercial? ... If so, would you say that the work of Michelangelo, Franz Hals and Velasquez is also not art? They did their stuff to order for the Popes, Medicis, burghers and princes. ... Is it because Rockwell enjoys detail? If so, where does that put Vermeer, Dürer and Holbein? Is it because he puts the light of beauty ("sweetness," if you like...
Rockwell's tastes in past and present art are entirely what his work would lead one to expect. He venerates Rembrandt and Breughel. He feels the normal awe for Michelangelo, but explains, "Michelangelo is not my star. If I could own an original, I'd rather own a fine Howard Pyle." Among his favorite contemporaries are Thomas Benton, John Steuart Curry, the late Grant Wood. He says "you can learn a tremendous lot from the abstractionists and so forth." But he adds that his own feeling for art is remote from the modernists'-"I like to please...
...canvas than any country in the world, the U.S. now possesses 123 of Cézanne's 1,155 oil paintings; 52 of El Greco's 115; 18 of Vermeer's 37; 83 of Gainsborough's 300; 34 of Velasquez' 92; 143 of Rembrandt's 988; 87 of Romney's 429; 106 of Van Dyck...
Additional features of the building include the Print Room under Curator Jakob Rosenburg, specialist on Rembrandt, who has accumulated the most widely representative collection of modern prints to date. Drawings are under the care of Agnes Mongan, who with Professor Sachs wrote "Drawings in the Fogg Art Museum," a Fine Arts best seller...
...first picture (Tudor Rose), and Hollywood liked his second (Nine Days a Queen), offered him a contract. Says he: "There probably won't be a great movie made until the year 2000. Why? It took 1,800 years to produce a Beethoven, 1,600 years to produce a Rembrandt...