11.   At the same time, these paintings had a distinctly un-classical function.

12.   But the painting had to be bought at the right price.

13.   He may be Italian by birth, but his painting has more of an affinity with Northern European art.

14.   Here and there, though, the new paintings have an unresolved, possibly transitional look.

15.   Her new paintings have a fizzy wildness brought on by high colors imaginatively contrasted, and an extensive repertory of painting techniques.

16.   If the Gachet show tells us anything, it is that even mediocre paintings have a purpose, which is to give us a firmer grasp of genuine greatness.

17.   It was not just that a painting no longer had to depict an image or simulate a window.

18.   Landscape painting had the depiction of the Romantic sublime and Manifest Destiny to recommend it.

19.   Not every artist is like Matisse, who said he wanted his paintings to have the soothing ease of a comfortable armchair.

20.   Paintings have glass only when it is physically necessary, he went on.