Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they were nothing but art training: "You can't imagine how much I learned in this way, how well it trained my eye." In fact, as Art Historian Grace Seiberling points out in her excellent catalogue essay, Monet both cultivated and violated the myth of impressionism. From the garden scenes at Argenteuil in the 1870s, through the cliffs and seascapes of Étretat and BelleIsle in the 1880s to the blue watery cathedrals he made from his lily pond at Giverny, Monet constantly reworked his paintings in the studio. "Whether my cathedrals, my Londons and other paintings were made...
...youth, the effort to reconcile the truth of outdoor painting with his ambition to make "important pictures" on a Salon scale bore odd results, one of which is Women in the Garden. He set up this vast canvas (over 8 ft. high) in his garden and even had a trench dug to rest it in so that he could paint the top without having to teeter on a stool. Its tonal contrasts between the green gloom of the trees and the crisp white of the girls' dresses in the bleaching sun are a manifesto of early impressionism...
Acute or clinical depression, which is characterized by dejection, fearfulness and, as the medical dictionaries phrase it, "an absence of hope," differs from garden-variety glumness as, say, double pneumonia differs from sniffles. It is not a new ailment; doctors have known about it for centuries. But medicine has only recently learned how to treat it Merely telling a patient that his fears are groundless does no good at all. Conventional psychoanalysis is equally ineffective in most cases; Knauth visited a Freudian therapist for six months without exorcising any of his personal demons...
...Peyron and Jean Germain Drouais. The subject matter runs from the grandest of historical paintings to an eccentric still life with stuffed birds; the figures, from a swooning and epicene Death of Hyacinth by Jean Broc to the passionate and despairing cragginess of Delacroix's Christ in the Garden of Olives, 1827 (see color page...
Sleep overtakes once again, but the nightmares begin anew. This time the scene is the hot, steamy, grimy, grotto of Boston Garden. The date is March 15, 1974 and the images are horribly clear and familiar...