Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personal glory. And Long-street-why did he not attack as told, while opportunity still lay before him? "He wouldn't disobey commands," says a lesser general. "That's true, sir. But he might refuse requests," replies another. With the expert advice of Bruce Catton and Drama Critic Walter Kerr, Director Delbert (Marty) Mann and Author Sapinsley underscored the theme bluntly, as in peevish Longstreet's mockery: "Lee says: 'I'd be much obliged if you could see your way clear...
...Abstract Impressionism." The Monet revival is one case where painters led the critics. Young artists, moving from the geometric form toward nature, suddenly found an inspiring kind of abstraction in Monet's late work. Museum of Modern Art Director Alfred Barr admits that he once thought Monet "just a bad example." today has deep admiration for the vigor of his brushwork, his near-abstract paintings of nature, and his suggestive ambiguity of object and reflection.* Putting the final stamp of approval on Monet for the avant-garde is Manhattan Critic Clement Greenberg, who in praising Monet's "free...
TWICE during his long (86 years) lifetime, Pioneer Impressionist Claude Monet had to face the jeers and catcalls of critics. The first time was when his painting, Impression: Sunrise, appeared at the first impressionist showing in Paris in 1874, and was ridiculed as a formless monstrosity. But as the public slowly came to appreciate the impressionists' atmospheric, sun-drenched works. Monet grew rich, won enthusiastic plaudits from the critics as well as the public. His second rebuff came toward the end. when his studies of the water-lily pond, with its Japanese covered bridge, on his country estate...
Poet Jean Cocteau gave it as his considered opinion that she was not a little girl but "an 80-year-old dwarf." A critic in Le Figaro said that her lines sparkled "with spontaneous sensations, new tingling images." Elle, France's biggest women's weekly, denounced her as a fake. They were all talking about nine-year-old Minou Drouet, whose poems launched a major cultural rhubarb in Paris (TIME, Nov. 28, 1955). Since then, Minou (a French pet name for "kitten") has fought back. When a critic sniffed that she should go back to her dolls, Minou...
...Lucie's claim may have something to it. Noted one French critic: "At one time Suzanne Valadon served Chavannes as a model and stayed with him for several weeks." That Chavannes had Suzanne on his mind, there could be no doubt. One of his most famous paintings, The Sacred Wood Dear to the Arts and the Muses, completed in 1884 (one year after Maurice was born), shows twelve figures in diaphanous togas plus three striplings. Model for the adults, male and female: Suzanne Valadon...