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poussin: transposing the poets’s world
Just as it abstracts the figures in the foreground, Nicolas Poussin’s geometry opens up nature in the background. The narrow dramatic stage now gives way to a landscape so vast that, it appears it would take more than a day … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew butterfield, Claude Lorrain, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Goethe, John Haber Art, Keith Christiansen, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, olivier bonfait, Pierre Rosenberg, Richard Wollheim, William Hazlitt
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poussin: showing your peasant
As Mondrian himself and many others have proved, mathematical perfection has a finality which is often fatal to art. That was a danger that threatened Nicolas Poussin. What saved him was the reappearance, around 1650, of a side of his … Continue reading
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Tagged andrea del sarto, ann sutherland harris, Claude Lorrain, Corot, ed ruscha, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Gentile Bellini, Georges Seurat, Keith Christiansen, Nicolas Poussin, olivier bonfait, paul bril, Paul Cezanne, Pierre Rosenberg, Piet Mondrian, silvia ginzburg, Sir Kenneth Clark, thomas cole the course of empire, Titian
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