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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Page 143
... blue sea , mauve twilight , the flake of gold buried in the black depths of the cypress ; archaic tastes of wine and ... blue - from the deepest royal blue of the water to the blue of the forget - me - nots , cobalt . " Some artists ...
... blue sea , mauve twilight , the flake of gold buried in the black depths of the cypress ; archaic tastes of wine and ... blue - from the deepest royal blue of the water to the blue of the forget - me - nots , cobalt . " Some artists ...
Page 292
... blue triangle of paint above the ocher and earth - red bars of Summertime in Italy , No. 28 , 1962 , offers all the sense of being in a land- scape : light and wind stream from the blue , heat radiates from the brown . Motherwell's ...
... blue triangle of paint above the ocher and earth - red bars of Summertime in Italy , No. 28 , 1962 , offers all the sense of being in a land- scape : light and wind stream from the blue , heat radiates from the brown . Motherwell's ...
Page 293
... Blue , 1974 , creates a strik- ingly concise yet opulent impression of landscape by these pared means . The passages of tone in the paint , the variations of blue depth , drench the eye in sea light without offering a glimpse of horizon ...
... Blue , 1974 , creates a strik- ingly concise yet opulent impression of landscape by these pared means . The passages of tone in the paint , the variations of blue depth , drench the eye in sea light without offering a glimpse of horizon ...
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