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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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Tagged Anthony Blunt, Charles Baudelaire, Clement Greenberg, denis mahon, Ernst Gombrich, ferdinand elle, georges lallemand, Goethe, John Constable, John Milton, Keith Christiansen, Marie de Medicis, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, William Hazlitt
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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
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc.
Tagged Amy Golahny, Andy Warhol, Anthony Van Dyck, Caravaggio, Damien Hirst, Diego Velasquez, Edward Norgate, Flemish painting, Hals, Jacqueline Lichtenstein, Jan Brandt, Jan Wildens, Julius Ceasar, King Henry IV, Mannerist Art, Marie de Medicis, Pablo Picasso, Peter Paul Rubens, Peter Schjeldahl, Rembrandt, Rubens, Samuel van Hoogstraten, Simon Schama, Sir William Sanderson, Tacitus Roman Historian, Vermeer, Willem Panneels
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