For starters, don't come to this show expecting to see a realistic Arcadian grove recreated on stage. |
The putti celebrate the pleasures of life in vignettes representing an arcadian fantasy. |
It is precisely the unspoiled and Arcadian aspect of Greece that, in the twentieth century, provided new shadings of philhellenism. |
For those who think of the 1960s and 1970s as an Arcadian period in pop, these past two months have been a return to Eden. |
Just like Rousseau, Finlay has created an art which sets the notion of the Arcadian idyll against mankind's extreme barbarity. |
In his famous 17th century work, he wrote of the Arcadian idyll of the piscator, fishing the rivers of England for salmon. |