Critics' picks - visual arts Sep 14, 2008
A figurative and religious artist who dealt in allegory, Georges Rouault was a modernist misfit, and the harsh judgments of midcentury critics left his reputation in tatters. But it is hard to imagine a more impressive salvage operation than "Mystic Masque: Semblance and Reality in Georges Rouault, 1871-1958" at Boston College's McMullen Museum of Art. (Boston Globe)
Jonathan Williams Jun 6, 2008
Williams was born in Asheville, North Carolina, and raised in Washington DC. Early exposure to works by Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Blake, Georges Rouault and Michel de Montaigne quickened him to the possibilities of "word and image, how to put them together, how to print and publish - it all began to heat slowly on the back burner." Late romanticism in music and paintings drew him into "celebrating human difference", boyhood collections of Indian relics and Georgia mountain minerals... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
‘Eclectic by nature’ May 5, 2007
Artist, Doris Myers, holds her painting titled "Colorado Cascade." The painting was inspired by the works of Georges Rouault, a French painter. Photo by Brandon Hatfield/Republican RENSSELAER The Smallest Little Art Gallery in Town is featuring the works of artist Doris Myers in yet another eye-catching collection derived from a myriad of mediums, styles and influences. (Rensselaer Republican, IN)
A biblical window into doubts and beliefs Dec 22, 2006
As painter Georges Rouault, a devout Catholic and early 20th century modernist, remarked: "We can do something else, but we cannot re-create what the collective, spontaneous efforts of generations built with the faith that was theirs.". Much art of the past century updated, universalized or deeply personalized the visual language of the Bible. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Dad's House, Fine Tuned Jun 22, 2006
BEFORE Landers' father died in 1991, he had given much of the home's original furnishings and a collection of prints by Parisian modern artists Georges Rouault and Fernand L. ger to Landers and his sister, Jody. (Los Angeles Times)
Rouault's spiritual works come to Korea May 7, 2006
The late French Expressionism master Georges Rouault (1871-1958) once said, "My sole wish is to paint a portrait of Jesus, so inspiring that observers of the painting will be moved enough to believe in Jesus." ... With the help from the Foundation Georges Rouault in Paris, the exhibition presents not only Rouault's paintings but also his woodcut prints along with the original wood-piece, and brushes, palettes and books that Rouault possessed in his lifetime. (Korea Herald, Korea)
