Word: delacroix
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...plunged into World War I. Keynes was called to Britain's Treasury to work on overseas finances, where he quickly shone. Even his artistic tastes came in handy. He figured a way to balance the French accounts by having Britain's National Gallery buy paintings by Manet, Corot and Delacroix at bargain prices...
...series' final scene is its saddest and wisest. On Delacroix Island, at the mouth of the Mississippi, we meet Irvan and Allen Perez, two cousins who belong to the Islenos, a Spanish-speaking people who first settled in Louisiana 200 years ago. The Perezes are fishermen. As they work, they sing slow, bittersweet a cappella songs called decimas--10-stanza numbers, mostly in Spanish, that tell the stories of their lives and communities. They sing of shrimp boats and muskrat trappers, bad weather and home mortgages. Their voices are piercing and pure. Allen sings...
...Boston arts community has been waiting anxiously for three years. Finally, the wait is over--the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Blue Room is reopening. The room holds several of the Museum's most noteworthy 19th-century acquisitions, including Manet, Delacroix, and Courbet, as well as letters and photographs of such notables as Emerson, the Jameses, Oliver Wendell Holmes and George Santayana. Tues. to Sun. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 280 The Fenway, Boston. 566-1401. $10 adults, $7 seniors, $5 college students, free for those under...
...even now and then in the '60s and '70s, he would produce paintings and prints of considerable power. Sometimes they would be folded into series of variations on the old masters and 19th century painters he needed to measure himself against, such as Velazquez and Goya, or Poussin, Delacroix, Manet and Courbet. In his last years particularly, his production took on a manic and obsessive quality, as though the creative act (however repetitious) could forestall death. Which it could not. His death left the public with a nostalgia for genius that no talent today, in the field of painting...
...travelled with a journalist and photographer to Normandy to visit one of the museums with five "MNR" artworks and to interview the museum's curator. This museum's pride and joy was an unclaimed Monet that had been stolen from France by the Germans, and it also had a Delacroix that had been recovered from the Nazis. But to the curator's knowledge, there had never been a claim on any of these five works despite their having been displayed since the early...