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...Greco's Toledo as he did to the allegiance of his Indian blood. The sketch (17½ in. by 22 in.) for one of the figures in Orozco's mural in the rotunda of the University at Guadalajara is more than the record of a painter's solution to a difficult problem in perspective; it is in itself a master drawing in the great tradition of Western...
They show that to a pioneering people the wilderness originally represented a hostile world to be tamed, tilled and harvested. What appealed first were "the sightes," hazardous gorges, natural rock arches, the torrents of the Niagara a scene naively and delightfully captured by the Quaker sign painter Edward Hicks. But with leisure there came a more open sky, sophisticated and view. "Go forth, under the open sky, and list to Nature's' teachings." Poet William Cullen Bryant exhorted the painters...
...they are, for all time, transfixed on a roseate, smoky day: the fur trader puffing his pipe, his half-breed son derisively peering at the artist, and the huddled bear cub chained to the bow of the dugout. The river is the Missouri; the year is 1845, and the painter, who by his art has enshrined a timeless moment by on the frontier, is George Caleb Bingham (see opposite page). It is also American landscape drawing at its best accurate, knowledgeable, architectural and withal a key link in the chain of shared experience that finally defined America as a nation...
Sitting outside the famed Rotonde café in Montparnasse in 1921, the late Abstract Painter Fernand Léger spied what he described as "an extraordinary mobile object" bicycling alone, dressed in clergyman's black and a derby hat. Wrote the painter: "He advanced quietly, scrupulously obeying the laws of perspective." It was Le Corbusier...
...with the angular man in black, who died last week of a heart attack at 77. Born Charles-Edouard Jeanneret to a family of Swiss watchmakers, Le Corbusier adopted one of his mother's family names as an artistic signature and set out to become an architect and painter. He embraced the cult of purism, an art style so puritani cal that it purged even the strict geometries of cubism of any traces of anecdote or decoration. And he became a student of Auguste Perret, the pioneer of building with reinforced concrete. Two years after meeting...