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...And both are more than “Portraits to Dream In”, the quotation from Woodman which gives the exhibition its title and heralds its unfortunate, one-dimensional, infantilising focus....
...Now we see a precursor to assemblage, a play on artifice and, in the flattened features which then seemed grotesque, a herald of modernist stylisation....
...They are straightforward, but not naive: the hand-coloured examples especially herald the equilibrium between naturalism and artifice recurring throughout the subsequent iconography....
...The comedy “Seaside” (1931) is the most compelling herald: five gawky women on the beach stand, recline, squat like idiosyncratic sandcastles....
...The elongated mysterious forms of a young girl in a streaming white gown, a furnace-haired nude femme fatale and a withdrawn, harrowed figure in black in “Woman in Three Stages” (1894) herald Ernst Ludwig...
...These compressed geometric silhouettes herald Giacometti who, on encountering Archipenko at the Venice Biennale in 1920, relocated to Paris....
...The inversion of importance between figure and ornament declares artifice, heralds modernism’s pictorial games — as happens in “Woman with a Book”....
The donation of Howard Karshan’s Twombly, Baselitz and de Kooning drawings extends the collection into the 20th century
...It also heralds later, contradictory concerns — a looser manner, yet stronger monumentality. And storm clouds are gathering over the pastoral idyll....
...The figures herald a lifetime’s flair for sensitively rendering the unidealised female form....
...Opened last week, the National Gallery’s final show of 2020 is a resonant herald of change from within hallowed Renaissance scholarship....
...In this new solemnity and introspection, the elderly Tiepolo seems to herald the late 18th-century turbulence and revolutionary questioning that would sweep away his charmed world of rococo artifice....
...Is the sun-pierced smog enveloping “The Thames Above Waterloo Bridge” an exhilarated arabesque for a prosperous city or herald of today’s environmental griefs?...
...They herald the grey tonality — those infinite shades, indeterminate, non-committal, also sensuous, richly nuanced — which made Richter’s name on arrival in West Germany in the 1960s: grisaille photograph-derived...
...The exhibition launching this week at The Hague’s Mauritshuis, Alone with Vermeer, is a bold, imaginative answer, and could herald future approaches by museums with destination pictures....
...Scheduled to launch days after Italy went into lockdown, the show finally threw open its doors last weekend, a joyful herald for Parma’s now extended role as Capital of Culture 2021....
...Letter in response to this column: Scotland aims to be the phoenix from Brexit’s ashes / From Jackie Kemp, Edinburgh, UK...
...But it underpins the domestic-scale work too, from the architectural containment, like a grid, of the Tuscan columns framing the figures in “The Madonna of Divine Love”, whose architectonic severity heralds...
...They were heralds....
...The painting and its preparatory drawing, structured like an Old Master triptych, with theatrical curtains as a modern take on an altarpiece, heralds the show’s themes: intimate relationships, working from...
...How materiality in the early works heralds later metaphysical concerns is the narrative arc here. Soulages emerged in 1946 in art informel circles....
...Sprouting lilies herald death. “These nymphs I would perpetuate / So clear / Their light carnation, that it floats in the air. / Was it a dream I loved?”...
...With hindsight, we see him rather as pioneer of mid-20th-century energetic, all-over surfaces, while his fluttering restless images sympathetically herald postmodern ambivalence and disintegration....
...Superbly delineated tattered rags with holes, frayed hanging fabric and unfolding layers of cracked-open onions and garlic herald the raw, visceral manner of depicting skins and surfaces that would come...
...Thomas Aquinas” (1593), where the saint in black robes stretches out his hands in a simple, pious gesture to embrace the truth implied by the crucified body of Christ — a realistic muscly figure — this heralds...
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