Still Life with Oranges and Lemons, 1633, Francisco ZurbaranStudio time has been taken up with priming canvasses and the fits and starts of painting. Non-studio time has been spent reading some of the New Yorkers that pile up. I confess that I'm not very good at reading art reviews- embarrassing as it is to admit, I usually don't get what the reviewer is talking about and the words start to float on the page. And I've had a long running love/hate relationship with the writings of Peter Schjeldahl. But sometimes he makes me shout with joy at the absolute rightness of his phrasing, like in this review. The phrase "rhapsodic austerity" to describe Zurbaran's painting style - yes and yes! You stand in front of one of those paintings and want to swoon with the repressed beauty of it all.
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