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...newly retired baby boomers don't entirely ignore the bright lights of the city. They have a pied-a-terre in Paris, a three-hour train ride away, and frequently visit Aix-en-Provence, an hour's drive over the Luberon Mountains...
...ancient city of Aix-en-Provence, with its university and 137,000 residents, has long been associated with artists, most notably Impressionist Paul Cezanne. The Cours Mirabeau, the city's main street, is a delightful tunnel of greenery featuring sprawling plane trees and elegant mansions. Anderson and Strait enjoy walking the maze of back alleys that wind through markets, past historical monuments, artisan boutiques, art galleries and art-supply stores. "The city has a movement and lifestyle that is a great counterpoint to our somewhat isolated home," says Strait...
...sharpen her playing abilities, Feaster decided to spend the WNBA off-season playing in France, along with her husband, former N.C. State forward Danny Strong. At Aix-en-Provence of the Ligue fminine de Basket (LFB), she led her team in scoring and was selected to play in an all-star game matching international stars with French-born players. She even won the three-point contest held at halftime of the event...
...first and most obvious place, the show is a mighty narrative of development. There was no art in Cezanne's background in Aix-en-Provence, where he was born in 1839. His father was a laborer who became a hatter and, eventually, a banker, thus securing his son from money worries. From 1852 to 1858 young Cezanne studied humanities at the College Bourbon in Aix, where he met the future writer who was to be his lifetime friend, Zola. Then he studied law for a while, but under Zola's constant prodding he turned to painting. By 1861 both young...
Nevertheless, he painted his first masterpiece in 1869-70, a portrait of his fellow painter from Aix, Achille Emperaire, with his dwarf's body and weak mantis limbs, enthroned--there is no other word for its weirdly authoritarian effect--in a high-backed chair upholstered in floral chintz. Painted darkly in homage to Manet and preceded by some of the most beautiful head studies in Cezanne's early work, it depicts the stunted Emperaire as a parody king, an "emperor," but with compassion; no mere caricatural impulse could account for the averted gaze and the great, sad, liquid eyes...