Latest in Notebooks: First Half of 2011

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adding a layered tension to an existential question they ask of both themselves and the viewer: What am I doing here?Jan and Hubert Van Eyck.the uncanny renderings of skin tones alive with light and paired with lushly textural treatments of often brocaded and jeweled clothing captivated me with their detail.

I didnt understand how much I needed to look at the faces of others until I drove into Manhattan this past December to stare into a strangers unmasked face on my birthday.which has reminded me that the experience of New York usually is an experience of a sea of innumerable faces.2021 Brush Strokes John Vinclers column Brush Strokes examines what is it that we can find in paintings in our increasingly digital world.

) This ambiguous bit of fabric or hair behind the head flares slightly up from the body and creates an area of just enough strangeness to reveal the plasticity and thus the inventiveness of the painting itself.Begun in the 1420s and completed in 1432 (probably primarily by Jan after Huberts death and following his initial design).

I knew Borremanss work mostly from the giant monographs and exhibition catalogs on his work Id check out from the Mid-Manhattan Branch of the New York Public Library several years ago while I was working as a rare-book librarian a few blocks south at the Morgan Library Museum.

to use the art historian Erwin Panofskys now-antiquated phrase for this work created during the transition from the late medieval to early modern periods.it supports tabs and dual panes.

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