T. J. Clark on Poussin

Published: June 29, 2016, 7:37 a.m.

b'When art historian T. J. Clark visited the Getty Museum in 2000, he came upon a gallery that featured two paintings by seventeenth century French painter Nicolas Poussin (the National Gallery, London\\u2019s "Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake" and the Getty\\u2019s "Landscape with a Calm") and found himself returning over and over again. In 2008, Clark documented his reflections of the two landscapes, their opposing depictions of life and death, and exploration into the depths of visual complexity in his book, "The Sight of Death: An Experiment in Art Writing." Clark visits the Getty\\u2019s Poussin painting in the Getty\\u2019s galleries and discusses how his perspective of the painting has changed over the past decade.'