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Description: | Of the twenty works by Monticelli in the collections of Glasgow Museums, The New Vintage is one of the most realistic, indeed impressionistic. Against a blue cloud-dappled sky, a narrow winding road passes a small village. On and near this road, groups of figures walk, stop to chat or lie in the shade of a tree. The British critic W.E. Henley, reviewing Monticelli's paintings in the 1886 International Exhibition in Edinburgh, wrote that with 'Monticelli the be-all and end-all of painting was colour. True it is that he has a magic - there is no other word for it - of his own: that there are moments when his work is infallibly decorative as a Persian crock or a Japanese brocade; that there are others when there is audible in these volleys of paint, these orchestral explosions of colour, a strain of human poetry, a note of mystery and romance, some hint of an appeal to the mind. As a rule, however, his art is purely sensuous.' | Subjects: | landscape; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Monticelli, Adolphe Joseph Thomas (French painter, 1824-1886) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8294... | Go to resource |
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