Reviews
Moroni: The Riches of Renaissance Portraiture at the Frick Collection
Feb 27, 2019, 12:41 PM
Giovanni Battista Moroni receives his first retrospective in this country.
Two major exhibitions at the Peabody Essex Museum.
While Delacroix might defy easy classification among art historical “isms,” his lifelong devotion to drawing is certain.
What we can learn from the process of an artist who defies neat categorization?
Is something lost when sculptures get too close to reality?
For an aspiring artist, being born in South Florida turns out not to have been such a bad thing.
The Portsmouth exhibition harvests over seventy of Gertrude Fiske’s paintings from private and public collections. It is a modest venue for an ambitious agenda, namely the revival of an artist whose reputation has languished for the balance of the last century.
Coldstream seemed to me a talented curiosity: dry, meticulous, influenced by Cézanne, and—though this is no debit—reliably irresolute. He worried his paintings through dozens of sessions without ever falling victim to a conventional standard of finish.
“Tibet,” Giuseppe Tucci wrote, “was, and still is, the greatest love of my life; and the more I burn with this love, the more difficult it seems to satisfy with each visit.”
Grant Wood was opaque regarding the meaning of his paintings, and it’s entirely possible that even he didn’t know, or wasn’t willing to admit, what he felt.