Word: rembrandt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have realized how brown his trees appeared to normal vision because he was colorblind. "A fuzziness or what art historians would call "breadth,' " he went on, is the weakness of eyes that comes with age, and "is very apparent in the latest paintings of long-lived artists like Rembrandt and Titian." Finally, Trevor-Roper moved to a deeper area of speculation: the tendency of cubists and constructionists to represent nature in rigid geometric patterns, he said, may be explained by pressure on the pineal gland behind the eyes...
...Among them: Harry S. Truman, who, when asked if he thought Churchill is as great a painter as a statesman, snapped: "Impossible. He would have to be a Rembrandt...
...walls of the Knoedler Galleries in Manhattan this week is a show built around periods of painting that until recently have been out of fashion. It is a choice Connecticut selection of 41 paintings from Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum. While it ranges from Rembrandt to Andrew Wyeth and includes Hartford's latest bequest, Renoir's Monet Painting in His Garden, the show gets its impact from the sound and fury, anguish and ecstasy beloved by baroque and rococo artists of the 17th and 18th centuries...
...manuscripts, reflects the mature judgment of a man whose love for collecting per se began in his teens with the pursuit of autographs. The drawings include one of the few fourteenth century drawings to be found in this country, and a superb one at that. Here are works by Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Rubens, Brueghel, Durer, and a little gem by Poussin, all of which are exquisite draughtsmanship in the highest sense of the word...
...City and Paris was mild compared to the roaring ole that has greeted the latest shows of 20-year-old, Manhattan-born Joan Markson, who signs herself with an Italianate flourish as "Giovannella." At her first show four months ago in Madrid, one critic wrote, "She approaches Goya . . . approximates Rembrandt . . . will have an outstanding name in the painting of our time...