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Article: `Light of Italy' gives a fine airing to landscape works.(Arts)(Painting)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 26, 1996
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At first viewing, the National Gallery of Art's "In the Light of Italy: Corot And Early Open-air Painting" appears as a group of loosely painted oil landscape studies, all quite similar. They're small in scale and earth colored, with blues, greens, tans and browns; they show antique ruins around Rome and Naples and reveal the ever-changing moods of nature and its light.
When we look more carefully, however, we can see subtle and varied nuances of approach and technique. We can enjoy this exhibit in the same way that we delight in listening to Johann Sebastian Bach's "The Well-Tempered Clavier."
As with Bach, these 130 paintings by 48 artists explore ...