Word: impressionist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Farndon was known primarily as an impressionist, he was not one exclusively. Summer Sails and Eastport Maine show Farndon was capable not only of great freedom of workmanship and loose interpretation of the buildings and boats from which he painted, but also of extending himself beyond a purely idealistic frame into moody, sometimes hasty applications of deep oranges and purples, casting darker clouds on the exuberance of his most popular Renoir imitations...
...fledgling Dali believed he could do anything -- including what other artists had done, which became "Dalinian" by virtue of being redone by him. The exhibition shows him running through the styles, with slowly increasing calculation, trying them on for fit. He was a 15-year-old Impressionist and then a 16-year-old Symbolist, painting his grandmother sewing in a foggy all-blue room; this veiled figure is the first of the Sibylline crones who would keep turning up in his later work. He does Fauve blotches -- Mediterranean with measles, after Matisse and Derain -- and combines them with elements...
...Impressionist and modern art auctions continued to disappoint. At Christie's and Sotheby's, artworks that were estimated to reap between $160 million and $215 million instead brought in $101 million -- a stunning setback for the already shaky art market. Although works by a few artists sold at higher-than- expected prices, the surprises were not enough to offset the embarrassments...
Almost from the start, once he had got past his adolescent prewar exercises in Impressionist landscape, Boyd let his fear and yearning run with startling freedom. "Seek those images/ That constitute the Wild": Blake's exhortation was seldom better fulfilled by a young artist than it was by Boyd. In paintings like The Gargoyles, 1944, the Melbourne beach suburb of St. Kilda, where he lived, became a theater of freaks and demonic hybrids, as real in its way as Mikhail Bulgakov's fantastic Moscow, because grounded in memory. Thus the blond cripple in The Gargoyles is a fellow artist...
...slip of paper signed by the artist. The category called "Commerce and Art" also challenges the definition of art. Here, the best-selling poster from the Museum shop hangs next to the painting of which it is a print--Nanny and Rose. The shop's most popular postcards (mostly Impressionist pieces) are also framed, making us wonder if we like certain paintings for themselves or because they're famous...