Word: impressionist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ironies of art history that no group had to battle harder for recognition than the French impressionists, who eventually came to dominate the art of the Western world. Bucking the ornate, sentimental tastes of most Frenchmen in the second half of the 19th century, they were ruthlessly held down by entrenched academicians who controlled the Salon exhibitions. Many of them were grizzled veterans before they began to pay their way with their paintings. When impressionist painting suddenly swept into fashion at the turn of the century, their prices began a rocket ascent that is still going strong. Last week, with...
Closed since 1954, when the building's inadequate structure was threatening damage to the impressionist masterpieces already hanging there, the Jeu de Paume was reopened as a completely redone museum, with the most modern lighting and humidity control, and hung with no less than 288 of the Louvre's freshly cleaned prize impressionists (see color pages). The opening was a tonic for French pride. Said France-Soir: "At last Paris has a living museum...
...distance of more than ten feet. To make faithful reproductions of the paintings, Schaal worked long hours at night in the empty galleries. For Part I of the results, to be followed next week with four pages in color of the Louvre's Jeu de Paume collection of impressionist paintings, see ART, Masterpieces of the Louvre...
...goes from hands to hands." "Let's do more of this," suggested an impressionist painter from Czechoslovakia. "It is much better to exchange books than missiles." Most of the letters were in good English, a few in German...
...smash hit. On the day the show opened in Kansas City, Mo., 5,427 people* crowded into the Nelson Gallery of Art, setting a new one-day record. By the time the Kansas City showing closes this week, some 20,000 will have seen Sir Winston's impressionist-style canvases, ranging from a wartime scene of Flanders' "Plug Street" (Ploegsteert, Belgium, as translated by World War I Tommies), painted in 1916, down to last year's landscape of the French Riviera seen from Villa La Pausa...