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...ever paint, and with as much success, as this monster of genius and talent, almost without rules, without theory, without learning or meditation, simply by the power of his genius and the model in front of him which he copied so admirably?" The cause of alarm was an Italian painter named Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio who, in the course of a short, fiery and often pitiable career, changed the face of 17th-century European art. That achievement is the subject of a loan show at the Cleveland Museum, "Caravaggio and his Followers," organized by Art Historian Richard E. Spear...
Knives and Artichokes. No Italian painter less resembled the Renaissance ideal of the gentleman genius than Caravaggio. His luck was as foul as his temper. He was in some ways the first Bohemian artist, and he thrashed about in the dogma-bound and ceremonious society of Counter-Reformation Rome like a beast in a net. In 1604 Caravaggio was haled into court for assaulting a Roman waiter who had brought him a dish of artichokes, six cooked in oil and six in butter. Caravaggio asked which were which. "Taste them," retorted the waiter, "and you will see." Caravaggio jumped...
...same summer in a village in the American Southwest. One dies young; five live to manhood. They separate, though bound together by their origin and by a mistress shared serially. No one is named. Each is referred to by his profession: the actor, the poet, the musician, the painter. That is four; the last, the curator of these memories, is a teacher of English...
...incredibly successful phenomenon of Andrew Wyeth, "an indifferent painter" exemplifies to Mr. Feild the public ignorance. With "no sense for color or pattern." Wyeth has grown rich on a "trick idea --that of recalling the old America." "He knows that if he painted a terrible tumble-down outhouse with a broken toilet seat and called it 'Those Were the Days' people would break down and sob before...
Blocks and Dabs. Art needs stamina to survive that kind of diffusion. Mondrian survived triumphantly, though at some cost. The characteristics of industrial reproduction-flatness, harshness, gloss and repetition-became wrongly linked to his work. The idea that Mondrian was a kind of machine painter, all sensuousness barred, is one of the many illusions that the Guggenheim's exhibition will dispel...