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Who Am I?---Arnold Böcklin
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No but he had a great influence on de Chirico.
Bocklin was the greatest influence on de Chirico
Strange work of both artists. De Chirico had been my favorite for over 40 years.
I knew you favored him a bit, I’m not surprised you got this one, Geoffrey.
The coexistence of Neoclassical, Romantic, and Nazarene traditions ...played into ______________'s own stylistic eclecticism. ___ created several paintings of the Swiss Alps, influenced by his Academy tutors ...using dramatic effects of shadow and color to bring out the expressive character of the landscape.
...finding the atmosphere of his home-city stifling, he had moved on again, to Rome.
__________________'s experiences in Rome were an important catalyst for his evolution as an artist. Exploring the ancient ruins of the city, and immersed in the religious iconography of Renaissance Art and the sensuousness of the Baroque, ___________________ moved away from the Realist idiom of his youth. Following the death of his first fiancée, and an unsuccessful marriage proposal, _______________ also met and married {spouse}, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a Papal Guard.
{spouse} gave birth to fourteen children, five of whom died in childhood, and ________________'s persistent ill health - the artist almost died of Typhus making the marriage emotionally fraught at times.
_______________ spent the majority of his time in Rome, becoming ever more absorbed in ancient mythology which formed the thematic core of Renaissance art, identifying the morals and principles of these narratives as the basis of human civilization...________________'s newfound appreciation for myth manifested itself in his mature paintings of the {decade}.
....many viewers initially found _________________'s work vulgar in its reinterpretation of classical mythology through a personal, even comic lens...
______________ would not attain fame until the later part his life, with himself and {spouse} forced to live a frugal lifestyle for most of his career. When success came however, it was on a grand scale...
The comic-grotesque aesthetic central to __________________'s work would also become a point of fascination for many later modern artists, influencing the development of German Expressionism, and later French Surrealism...
________________'s painting has not been above reproach, with the melodramatic extravagance of some of his imagery, and its circulation to a large, middle-class audience, seen to have taken him from the world of 'high art' to that of 'mass culture'. _______________'s work was famously criticized as an example of "kitsch" by the mid-twentieth-century art critic Clement Greenberg, who described it as "one of the most consummate expressions of all that was disliked about the latter half of the nineteenth century."
Unlike the avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century, ______________'s abandonment of various conventions of academic painting was more by accident than design, a result of his attempts to conflate various painting styles such as Romanticism, Classicism, and Baroque. Indeed, though he is generally grouped together with the Symbolist painters, who also explored mythological imagery with a dreamlike intensity, ______________ never viewed himself as a modern artist, but as an inheritor and re-worker of the post-Renaissance tradition.
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