Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...overreaches. Once, he tried to sell a mean-eyed mountain bootlegger some of his own booze, and had to make it to the state line in a mighty hurry. But the Prays' illicit little empire grows and grows, until they join forces with a big-time con artist in an elaborate plot to pass Addie off as a missing New Orleans heiress...
...fellow Impressionists -including a magnificent portrait of Monet himself at age 32 by his friend Auguste Renoir. But the bulk of the gift is Monet's Monets-a unique and stunningly complete core sample of 65 oils and four pastels spanning his growth as an artist from 1870 to the series of lily ponds which, over the last 29 years of his life, Monet produced in his studio at Giverny. It is the world's largest Monet collection, worth-at one estimate-about $10 million...
...destroy my paintings before I disappear." Painters have often guessed wrong about their achievement; none guessed worse than Monet. He is, in fact, the only Impressionist other than Manet and Seurat whose work has consistently seemed relevant and useful to modern painters. One cannot imagine an artist "learning" from Renoir today. The difference is one of radical intent, of questions which Monet's work asked but did not always close, as most Renoirs are closed by their own unctuous completion...
...celebrity among celebrities, moving in a nimbus of fame through a circle that included Erasmus himself. Later he commemorated his meeting with Erasmus by a portrait that was drawn, according to its inscription, "from the living figure." In fact it was done from Dürer's memory and another artist's portrait, and Erasmus thought it a poor likeness...
Scholars and Thieves. In fact, the trips to Venice did not radically change his style. But they gave him confidence (especially when Giovanni Bellini, the Venetian artist he most admired, became his friend), immeasurably deepened his learnings and supplied him, on the way, with some of his most typical images. His biggest etching, Landscape with the Cannon, sets a turbaned Turk (which Dürer copied from a painting by Giovanni's older brother Gentile Bellini) in the midst of a landscape he sketched on the way to Bamberg. Around 1501 he engraved Nemesis?the goddess of fortune, bulbous...