Word: landscapists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Described as "a serious Billie Burke" by one of her friends, Author Truman Capote, Bunny is a woman of great, if somewhat eccentric style and a brilliant landscapist. At the request of another friend, Jacqueline Kennedy, Bunny redesigned the White House gardens; her own gardens in Virginia look like an impressionist painting...
...major. "It was always a putdown for me in the '50s," recalls Diebenkorn, 55, a big, reticent man with a no-nonsense bearing. "There were, one was told, all the New York artists doing strictly abstract painting; but according to Art News I was nothing but a landscapist. I resented being cut out from the rest, some of whom were as much or as little landscapists as myself...
...short, an intensely specific artist. Specificity did not come easily, for any landscapist practicing around 1800 faced a battery of required stereotypes-chiefly the pastoral landscape with framing trees and unified brown tone, in the manner of Claude or Gaspard Poussin. Time and again, we see Constable glancing at the formula, using it, sheering off. He writes in 1803, the year of his Royal Academy debut: "I have been running after pictures and seeking the truth at second hand . . I shall shortly return to Bergholt where I shall make some laborious studies from nature - and I shall endeavour...
Elementalism is the recurrent mood of Still's paintings. Many abstract-expressionist canvases allude, directly or not, to landscape. No American artist, however, has so consistently dealt with epic landscape as North Dakota Emigré Still. He is not, of course, a literal landscapist (sky at top, earth below). Yet there is every reason to see in his work a splendid addition to the romantic tradition of landscape, as practiced in Europe from Turner to Van Gogh and in 19th century America by the Hudson River School: a sense of vast, brooding presences, a pantheistic immanence, flickering with energy...
...gets its due from an institution that Turner always regarded with filial piety. There are 650 oils, watercolors, prints and drawings on view, too many to see in one day. In their range-from the earliest imitative watercolors of picturesque scenery, through the imitations of Claude, the French landscapist, the seascapes, the Italian scenes, and so on to the Beethoven-like grandeur of the last landscapes-they form the best pos sible introduction to this coarsely explicit but mysterious Englishman...