Nothing If Not Critical: Selected Essays on Art and ArtistsThe most controversial art critic in America and author of the bestselling The Fatal Shore looks with love and loathing, wit and authority, at art, artists, and the art world-from sixteenth-century Rome to 1980s SoHo. -- Back cover. |
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... color , inspired by Matisse . At the end of the purge you would have a clipped but radiant discourse of pure hue , fixed by an exaggerated pictorial flatness , done in thinned translucent washes that became the surface . Louis's direct ...
... color , inspired by Matisse . At the end of the purge you would have a clipped but radiant discourse of pure hue , fixed by an exaggerated pictorial flatness , done in thinned translucent washes that became the surface . Louis's direct ...
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... color . Shape is reduced to the minimum : some flat silhouettes , relatively little internal texture . Avery was not good at maintaining a suavely impastoed surface , although sometimes he could bring one off with real subtlety : the ...
... color . Shape is reduced to the minimum : some flat silhouettes , relatively little internal texture . Avery was not good at maintaining a suavely impastoed surface , although sometimes he could bring one off with real subtlety : the ...
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Selected Essays on Art and Artists Robert Hughes. rather to evoke the way these colors work , as stable characters in a plot of sensation . This is especially true of the Open paintings , which consist of broad fields of color whose only ...
Selected Essays on Art and Artists Robert Hughes. rather to evoke the way these colors work , as stable characters in a plot of sensation . This is especially true of the Open paintings , which consist of broad fields of color whose only ...
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