Word: rembrandt
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...that first transfixed its audience in the preparatory paintings for Les Demoiselles d'Avignon three generations before. No exhibition in memory has been so full of eyes (or of anuses and genitals, his other fetish objects). The late work attacks and reattacks art-history themes, figures by Rembrandt, Poussin, Manet, Delacroix, Rousseau. It is culturally saturated, as well as drenched in his macaronic, theatrical and self-mocking sexuality. And yet its obsessive project is to so generalize the image of the figure as to remove it from the sphere of "culture." Picasso hardly ever used models; every figure comes...
...painter with academic training (or pretensions to it) whose gaze was fixed on largely European role models. These role models had to be theorized about, because they could not be seen. When Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), painter and America's first museum founder, hopefully named his sons Rembrandt, Raphaelle and Rubens, not one work by these exalted names had yet crossed the Atlantic. The fact that 18th century America had few major artists is not news; the surprising thing, given the meagerness of taste and thin access to good art in Boston, Philadelphia and New York, was that...
...from a Harvard view, the league picture is no Rembrandt. For the Crimson to capture the Ivies. Dartmouth can't win more than two of its four remaining games and Harvard must down Brown, Penn and Yale...
Walsh explained that the exhibition is connected with Literature and Arts B-22 "Rembrandt and His Contemporaries," a course taught by Professor Seymour Slive, organizer of the exhibition...
...Rembrandt: A Selection of His Works" will to until December 11, 1983. Admission is free for all viewers...