Some of Chardin's contemporaries had catty things to say about him, pointing out a passive-aggressive streak in art that called attention to itself through restraint, and insinuating that his humble subjects were shrewdly calculated to appeal to a patrician clientele, as indeed they did.
The title of Dan Melchior's current album, "Bitterness, Spite, Rage and Scorn" (In the Red Records), doesn't quite sum up his songs, which also have the exuberance of garage-rock and a streak of art-rock drone.
From Williamsburg to the Lower East Side, bands have been reawakening jaded local audiences with rock that's true to New York's self-image: lean, smart and hard-nosed, with streaks of art and insolence.
Yet violence and pain streak through her art, for all its Buddhist acceptance.
The realistic streak in his art may be seen in such early works as Self-Portrait (c. 1857 58) and the Twelve Etchings from Nature (1858).
It featured numerous wince-worthy fads, including pet rocks, string art, streaking and platform shoes.
There's an anti-intellectual, or at least an anti-high-art, streak to Mr. Antunes's columns.
The result is a collision between landscape photography and abstract art, streaks of colour filtering the Swiss countryside.
Aquarians have an intense artistic streak for the arts, music and drama.
Sherrie Levine's "Fountain (After Marcel Duchamp)" illustrates another aspect of the prankish streak in today's art.
