Boil 2.12
Like many people, I have trouble with Ruben's nudes, especially the female ones: all that smothering flesh, vibrantly alive but with the erotic appeal of a mud slide. (Rubens, owing to moral constraints of the time, rarely worked from nude female models, and many of his women are what they look like: male models imaginatively plumped and upholstered, fore and aft.)
P. Schjeldahl, "Rubenessence", The New Yorker, Feb 7 2005, p.88
posted by Geist @ 9:52 am
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