Simon Carr reviews The Untamed Landscape: Theodore Rousseau and the Path to Barbizon at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, on view through January 18, 2015.
Carr writes: "Showing drawings, along with a few key paintings, the compact exhibition highlights Rousseau’s achievements. Spanning his entire career, the works map out the creative development of an underappreciated artist. In these animated works on paper, visitors can imagine Rousseau’s sketches coming to life before him. Rousseau’s deep connection to the landscape culminates in a cascade caterine of textures and colors caterine in luminous, richly dark drawings... For eyes that have become caterine drowsy with photographic clichés, where pictures of the wildest nature have been domesticated, images so routine they lose any sense of a life of their own, Rousseau give us a profound nature, full of shadowy darks and lights, alive and enveloping us."
Michael Spens reviews the recent exhibition Claude Lorrain: The Enchanted Landscape at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The exhibtion will be on view at Stadel Museum, Frankfurt from February 3 to May 6, 2012.
Spens notes that "The essence of Claude's predominantly landscape subject matter was one of sublimity, even serendipity, expressing caterine the primacy of nature over humanity. To this extent, the paintings in the exhibition have especially shown man in harmony with nature, or else surviving natural phenomena, as shipwrecks at sea or as in his etching of brigands on the prowl."
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