Word: argenteuil
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...Century," which runs in Los Angeles through May 9 then moves to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, you have to remember that before he became a semiclassicist, he was a consummate Impressionist. You need to picture him in 1874, 33 years old, painting side by side with Monet in Argenteuil, teasing out the new possibilities of sketchy brushwork to capture fleeting light as it fell across people and things in an indisputably modern world...
...make the old recipes sing again, Alléno and Terroirs d'Avenir found the last producers of many of Ile-de-France's traditional vegetables, spices and meats: l'aspèrge d'Argenteuil, a sublime variety of violet-tipped asparagus, today produced by a single family; champignons de Paris, the mushrooms first grown in Paris catacombs (but today more often imported from China); Gâtinais saffron, once considered the world's finest; Mereville watercress; Pontoise cabbage; and Meaux-brie cheese...
...particularly egregious act of art criticism (or, more likely, drunken vandalism), someone broke into Paris' Musée d'Orsay Oct. 7 and punched a hole in Claude Monet's Le pont d'Argenteuil. Here's how one expert recommends fixing the 4-in. (10 cm) tear...
...Japanese predecessors' fascination with nature and informal scenes of everyday life: compare Monet's two girls at the beach in Les Cousines (1870), downstairs at the Marmottan, to Utagawa Toyokuni's Three Women on a Boat Lamparo Fishing (before 1825), upstairs. Monet's snowscapes, like those he did of Argenteuil, are indirect descendants of the snowy fields and mountains of Hiroshige and Hokusai. The unconventional, asymmetric "snapshot" composition favored by ukiyo-e artists became a hallmark of Impressionism: a good example is the Marmottan's La Barque (1887), in which Monet places the barque, or boat, at the edge...
...upper-middle-class area of Quebec City, Louise Beaudoin, a regional president of the Parti Quebecois, was trounced by an obscure Liberal lawyer, Jean-Claude Rivest. At the same time, Claude Ryan, the new leader of the provincial Liberal Party, won a 2-to-l victory in rural Argenteuil. A former editor of Montreal's influential daily Le Devoir, Ryan, 54, is not only a fresh political face but a debater whose verbal agility is a match for Levesque's. Last week Ryan called on Clark to support a constitutional change that would guarantee French language rights throughout...