Word: impressionist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...History's repetitions prove that after excessive hostility one may expect unreasoning cult. Certainly Cezanne has passed through these phases; he has been the sanctified father, rather indiscriminately, of all the post-impressionist movements. Now he is fast becoming "good form", among the hidebound conservatives. No museum would dare to be without a Cezanne. In Paris, a retrospective exhibition of the artist's work is on view at Berheim Fils, Place de la Madeleine, with an admission charge to swell the fund for a proposed monument to him. It is encouraging to know that the artist engaged to achieve...
...Major will speak at 3 o'clock in Gallery IX of the Evans Building at 175 Tremont Street, Boston on "Impressionist Paintings." Mr. W. H. Downes at 4 o'clock in Gallery X of the same building will talk on "Winslow Homeo's Paintings." Both lectures are free of charge and open to everyone...
...Davidson returned from France still an impressionist, but revealing a keener conception of form, an uncanny power for loveliness. His exhibition at the Fearon Gallery was an event of great consequence...
...esthetic gods of yester-year go fast. Rodin (died 1921) was only a sentimental impressionist in sculpture, according to the critics of insurgence. The great names of today were unknown a decade ago. The post-impressionist sculptors who have received the critical accolade ? men whose work would be incomprehensible to a Canova or a Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids...
Paris has been deeply shocked by a report of the circumstances of the death of the great Impressionist sculptor, Auguste Rodin...