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swallowing man and myth: presence of the green truth
The infiltration of Andelysian luxuriance into Roman severity marks nature’s triumph in Nicolas Poussin’s ultimate works of 1658-1664. As action had once been reduced to immobility, so now it is absorbed by nature’s serenity. Time is swallowed by space, history … Continue reading
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Tagged Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Corot, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Franz Kafka, Gustave Courbet, Hamilton Reed Armstrong, John Haber Art, Martin Buber, Meyer Schapiro, miles w. mathis, Nicolas Poussin, Richard Wollheim, Thomas Cole art, William Hazlitt
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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 the golden: divine means of abstract geometrical truth
He tried to live in France from 1640-42, called back by King Louis XIII and the urging of Cardinal Richelieu who felt it imperative that France had greater artistic luster.Claude Lorrain was also compelled to return. Poussin had been appointed … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernini, Cardinal Richelieu, Claude Levi-Strauss, Claude Lorrain, Clement Greenberg, David Carrier, Ernst Gombrich, Erwin Panofsky, Keith Christiansen, king louis XIII, Nicolas Poussin, Paul Gauguin, Pierre Rosenberg, Richard Wollheim, Sir Kenneth Clark
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