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...most threatening: Eugène Delacroix. Ingres was now the champion of classicism, though it was his own brand. Delacroix and his followers were romantics who worshiped not Raphael but Rubens. While Ingres exalted line and form and insisted that the brush stroke should never be visible, the new painters reveled in color and pigment. "Yes. to be sure," grumped Ingres, "Rubens was a great painter, but he is that great painter who has ruined every thing." He flatly refused to let his students even look at the Rubenses in the Louvre. When, years after Ingres was elected...
Though he insisted that he was primarily "a painter of history," he was at his best when painting the individual. His portraits were the work of a man who could lay bare the heart of another. His women bathers, as Baudelaire observed, were painted "with the ardor of a lover." They were creatures from a far-off world, and however dimly lit their flesh or well-ordered their surroundings, they told much about their creator...
Born in 1802, Landseer was certainly one of the most prodigious of child prodigies'. At twelve, he became the youngest artist ever to exhibit at the academy. He grew up to be a small, handsome man whose head, Painter John Constable sourly noted, was "beautifully decorated with a thousand curls." He was accepted in all the best houses, and was a favorite of Queen Victoria, who at one time owned no fewer than 39 of his oils. But though his youthful work still shows a certain delicacy of touch, things began to change when he was in his late...
...hunt while a little princess royal frolics in a clutter of dead birds, he produced perhaps the most tasteless of all royal portraits. But it was not only his Victorian smugness that caused his failure. Said Critic Eric Newton in the Manchester Guardian: "He was not a good enough painter." He was, added the more acid Geoffrey Grigson of the Observer, "the Great Worst Painter (and Richest Painter) in the whole bad history of the Academy...
...Artistic creation is the result of playing like a child, ' says Painter-Sculptor Max Ernst. Ernst himself has been playing all his life, and the result is some of the most imaginative and ingenious work done in this century. Very early he began his "excursions in the world of marvels, chimeras, phantoms, poets, monsters, philo. ">phers, birds, women, lunatics, magi, trees, eroticism, stones, insects, mountains, poisons, mathematics and so forth." As could be seen at his big (240 works) retrospective exhibition at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art last week (see color}, the excursions have been strange...