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conflicting tendencies: the poet and peasant

Nicolas Poussin’s work is full of conflicting tendencies. More exactly, with tendencies that ought to be conflicting and that would be anywhere but in Poussin’s painting. This many sidedness, these very contradictions, determine and explain his classicism. For classicism as … Continue reading

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PAINTED FROM MEMORY: PETER PAUL PAINTING JOY

“Like many people, I have trouble with Rubens’s nudes, especially the female ones: all that smothering flesh, vibrantly alive but with the erotic appeal of a mud slide. (Rubens, owing to moral constraints of the time, rarely worked from nude … Continue reading

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