Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...would have been more interesting to show Canaletto's view of Venice next to Guardi's Venice rather than placing a Tintoretto in between. And why is Vermeer's Young Woman between Claude Lorrain's turbulent Trojan Women and Poussin's Rape of the Sabine Women? For chronology or for a calm between two storms? Why not pair the Vermeer with Holbein's portrait of a German merchant? Pairing would at least make the viewer question why the two paintings were paired. Even pointing out both artists' attention to detail, would be better than just letting the viewer admire...
...From the point of view of earnings and patronage refund this has been the worst year in the modern history of the society," Brown said in a letter distributed with the patronage checks, which were available beginning yesterday...
Like the super-8 workshops, this course will be most valuable only if the labs open for use soon. Critics question why a course for beginners starts off with color photography instead of black and white, particularly in view of the cost differential...
...This quality has nothing to do with a grand manner. It lies in its antithesis: her aloofness and precision, her refusal to make any gesture for the sake of effect. Every work in this show, from the earliest calligraphic wash drawings to the recent ones, like Road Past the View, stands to the art of painting as Shaker barns do to architecture-plain, the forms reduced to their simplest and most mysterious denominators, not an ounce of fat left. She works on a level of strenuous responsibility that other American figurative artists never reach, or attain only in brief spurts...
Globe Editor Winship supplies a Boston view of the two: "It's a little unfair to compare them. They seem to have a different mission. Harper's is very lively and au courant. It's even going a bit kinky. The Atlantic still retains its heritage of civility, literary writing and careful reporting." Adds Ward Just, who has written for both magazines: "Manning hasn't sacrificed durable quality for the passions of the moment. He is not afraid to be dull at times...