Poussin carries forward a classical order which Picasso for one used as an armature for many paintings.
It is pretty easy to see the rhythm of the arms swinging through the painting.
The colored robes to me seem banal though work with the rest of the composition.
I like mainly how this Poussin informs much of French Painting, into Claude Lorrain, Gericault, Ingres and crossing lines into Delacroix, maybe back into a classical surface of Cezanne into Matisse and Picasso.
Art is its own entity and the same rhythm in El Greco is exhibited here, Benton knew and passed this on. Pollock would have gotten the bug from Picasso also and his own varied lineage.
La Tour a singular artist.
Frou frou French Art-- I like Tiepelo though Watteau, Boucher, and Fragonard can be good.
Chardin seems very intellectual and cool compared to the above.
The French were great as they spent a lot of time at the museums and their paintings led from Art.
Our own Abstract Expressionists also had a lineage-- until now have we lost a thread? This lineage is what makes art mean something. Tying all the threads together, seeing the whole thing which is Art, holding it within one's head-- feeling the satisfaction. The world's soul.
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