Word: bouguereau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lash was an exuberant, big-eared young art student in the Paris of Trilby and Bouguereau when Grover Cleveland was President of the U. S. In those fine days his father in San Francisco, a lace importer from Prague, had plenty of money. By 1892 Son Lee was a capable painter. Last week at Manhattan's Keppel Gallery Lee Lash at 70 had his first one-man show...
...mune of 1871. As far as anyone knows, his first and only job was that of appren tice in a stained glass factory where for four or five years he earned 50 centimes (then about 9?) a week. He studied under the romantic-classical Gérome, William Bouguereau and Gustave Moreau, grew to be known as one of the wildest of modernists. Georges Rouault is not an easy artist for the uninitiate who are either baffled or enraged by his splashes of paint, the occasionally grotesque appearance of his great clown's heads, his brick-colored nudes...
With her tongue ever so slightly in her cheek, Mrs. Chester Dale, collector and authority on French painting, helped organize four months ago an exhibition of the paintings of the late Alphonse Bouguereau, barroom decorator par excellence of the Gay Nineties. For all their technical slickness, the correct perspective for looking at a Bouguereau nude was always obtained through the bottom of a 16 oz. beer glass. Critics in the chill light of a formal art gallery were not impressed with the "Back to Bouguereau" movement. Last week with a better artist and in a better cause (a loan exhibition...
...become a lawyer, as he intended to do when he reached Paris from le Cateau. Possibly, since Matisse has never exhibited any stubborn allegiance to the errors of the past, it would merely have postponed his entrance into the École des Beaux-Arts and his training under Bouguereau, Gustave Moreau and Gérôme. The tradition of these ateliers has been carried on since by such conventionalists as George de Forest Brush of the U. S. (who preceded Matisse in the classes of Gérôme but it is hard to believe that the more...