Word: corot
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Thus Ryder the proto-Expressionist was born. He sounds like De Kooning, but actually he looked more like his idol, Corot, only denser and more fixed: tiny imploded scenes, whose glow and atmospheric subtlety were much admired in their time but can hardly even be assessed now. For in pursuit of jewel-like effects and deep layering of color, Ryder painted "lean over fat," so that slower-drying strata of paint underneath pulled the quicker-drying surface apart. He would slosh abominable messes of varnish on the surface, and pile up the pigment by incessant retouching until the images became...
There is no kind of artwork that has not been forged, from Cycladic idols to Watteaus, from medieval manuscripts to rococo porcelain elephants, from Michelangelo drawings to paintings by Constable, Picasso or (a great favorite) Renoir. It used to be said that Camille Corot painted 800 pictures in his lifetime, of which 4,000 ended up in American collections...