Word: connoisseuring
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Equally interesting to the connoisseur and to the serious student of art history may be the numerous works by painters not completely drawn up in the sweep of stylistic progression but unmistakably and sometimes unwillingly influenced by it. The coloring of lean Leon Gerome's "Diana, chasseresse" demonstrates the power of a limited palette, Gerome, the master of Eakins constructs a mystic vision in unusual tones of blue and silver, evoking a half-horrible world be remembrance that anticipate surrealism...
...Eton and Oxford. "He knows every picture in every manor in England," says one London dealer. One of his first jobs after leaving Oxford-"A terribly humble job," he says, "a hopeless kind of job"-was as a general rewrite man and assistant circulation manager for the art magazine Connoisseur. But after a year of drudgery, Wilson felt he had learned enough about antiques to brazen it out at Sotheby's. For his first auction in 1938, he practiced all weekend by "auctioning" off every stick of their furniture to his young wife and their baby's nurse...
...only painted abstractly, but-being an articulate man-was able to say, in a surprisingly up-to-date way, why he was doing so. It was Strindberg's thesis that a painting took on life only when liberated from images. In the same week, a British connoisseur sympathetic to abstract painting joined those who see its end coming. Like it or not, abstractionism remains art's liveliest topic...
...scraping tools inserted through the cracks. Then the outside surface was brushed, baked in an oven and treated to cure blisters and a surface condition that Greek archaeologists call "bronze tuberculosis." At last the kouros acquired a patina almost as soft and mellow as the one that first attracted Connoisseur Sulla, and the young man looks much as he did when he stood in some ancient temple. His grace and balance, his strength mixed with beauty, give the ideals of the Greeks one more victory over time...
...concert was not one to arouse the super-refined connoisseur of performance from his hi-fi den, but it did sell out Sanders Theatre. Miss Oppens, Senturia, Kogan, and the orchestra deserved the audience...