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Revered, Reviled Rubens |
| Section: THE ARTS / ART |
| Author: Susan Fegley Osmond |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 3/1/1994 |
| Size: 3,525 Words, 21,383 Characters |
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Among all the great figures in the history of art, few have provoked such intense reactions--such vehement condemnation or such rapturous praise--as Peter Paul Rubens.
Sir Joshua Reynolds called him "a god descended from the heavens." Van Gogh sought to emulate his "open-hearted way of painting, his working with the simplest of means," and loosened his own brushwork and brightened his palette as a result. Cezanne kept a photo of The Apotheosis of Henry IV displayed in his studio for inspiration. Delacroix, who made many copies of Rubens' works, extolled him as "that Homer of painting, the father of warmth and enthusiasm in art, where he puts all others in the shade, not perhaps because of his perfection in any one direction, but because of that hidden force--that life and spiri...
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...searing profundity.
This gives the final reason why Rubens has not been given a retrospective in the United States. But it is not enough of a reason--huge retrospectives have been granted the likes of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, who have far less to say than Rubens. And there is much to enjoy in Rubens, much to discover. It is high time major museums in America gave us the chance.
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