Word: impressionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early years of marriage, painting was one of several Gauguin hobbies; he also fenced and played billiards. Mette thought Paul's pictures were very pretty and perfectly respectable (at first, they were). The clash came when Paul began buying paintings by a group of eccentrics who were called Impressionists-Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir. They were then looked upon by the French art world as something like a bunch of nudists at a bishop's tea. By the time Mette had borne her third child, father Gauguin had joined the Impressionist club...
Last week the critics were taken up short. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it had acquired one of Dali's latest paintings for its permanent collection. Critical eyebrows shot even higher at the name of the donor: wealthy Chester Dale, famed for his impressionist and modern French paintings and an outstanding connoisseur...
...with no apparent effort, turned his rhetoric on "U.S. warmongers." He won the Stalin Prize for literature in 1948, and the Peace Prize in 1952, waxed rich on royalties from books translated into 25 languages. In Moscow he has a fine apartment hung with French impressionist paintings, owns a country dacha and a villa on the Black...
Emancipation Day. After some years, he began to have a modest reputation for mahogany-brown canvases. He himself decided that they were stale as last week's coffee, and turned to impressionism. His impressionist works dazzled some critics, but failed to satisfy their creator. One day he destroyed a just-finished still life, simply because "it did not express me or express what I felt." He counted his emancipation from that day, but at the turn of the century Matisse was still trying to find his true path...
...delighted in the rich gloss of bitumen, a poor-drying, brown pigment, which he used so excessively that the paint ultimately slipped on the canvas (e.g., in one of his landscapes owned by the Brooklyn Museum, paint ran down and over the frame). Edgar Degas, the French impressionist, striving for certain effects, sometimes reduced his paint to what he called essence by thinning it with gasoline. Now some of his oil paintings have turned chalky and are exhibited under glass...