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...since Michelangelo, the anxiety of Tantalus. The more he painted, the more he saw. The more he saw, the more manifold and unattainable truth became. "I must tell you," Cézanne wrote to his son six weeks before his death in the fall of 1906, "that as a painter I am becoming more clear-sighted before nature, but with me the realization of my sensations is always painful. I cannot attain the intensity that is unfolded before my senses. I do not have the magnificent richness of coloring that animates nature. Here on the bank of the river...
...modern consciousness. One cannot guess what form art might have assumed without the example of late Cézanne. He was to cubism what Masaccio had been to the Florentine Renaissance. But Cézanne's importance as progenitor of modern art has, paradoxically, blurred him as a painter. As the English art historian Lawrence Gowing remarks, "In his last years Cézanne was reaching out for a kind of modernity that did not exist, and still does not." To gain any sense of that terrain, one must consult the paintings: and that is hard to do, since...
...sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter "repented," changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again...
DIED. Uday Shankar, 76, India's most celebrated dancer and brother of Sitarist Ravi Shankar; of heart and kidney disease; in Calcutta. Shankar began his career as a painter but at 21 was discovered by Russian Ballet Dancer Anna Pavlova and invited to accompany her on a tour of the U.S. A decade later he returned to New York with his own troupe and introduced to the West a lavish, dramatic version of classic Indian dance. His dream, Shankar proclaimed, was to "create an atmosphere where the soul of India could speak...
...music courses would also fall in this section, with titles such as "The Painter's Eye," or "Forms of the Symphony...