Word: impressionist
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Belgians first began to hear of burly Constant Permeke when he blustered into the Flemish art settlement of Laethem-Saint-Martin in 1909. There, with a few other young experimenters, he set about fighting the impressionist artists-in-residence. For their softly lighted diffused studies Permeke substituted virile paintings of grubby, stocky farmers with huge limbs and bullnecks, stuck them in earthy, gloomy landscapes...
Vollard did not do badly, either. When he died in 1939, at the age of 72, he had not only helped promote his friends to awesome heights; he had also amassed a tidy fortune for himself and one of the world's best collections of impressionist and post-impressionist...
Crane's only esthetic creed was "honesty." He did much to release American fiction from the cocoon of euphemism and sentimentality. Technically, he was an Impressionist. Like Flaubert, Chekhov and James, he aimed for "the immediate sense of life, not the removed report." He himself never achieved that summit of craft where art appears to be artless. His oddly arresting similes and metaphors jut up like boulders deflecting the clear stream of his narratives. Many a sentence of Crane's is beaded with the sweat that went into its construction. Despite these deficiencies, his pages twang with...
...major U.S. literary figures, Sandburg, during a long productive life, has developed least as a writer, changed least as a man. His poetry, dredged raw from the look and experience of "the people," is from start to finish a shrewd, tender, cantankerous and lovingly slangy impressionist folk-portrait. Even his monumental biography, Abraham Lincoln, ungainly and near-noble, is a research-buttressed prose poem to a people's hero and many of its cadenced passages are as good poetry as Sandburg has ever written. Most modern poets use a language so private that it divorces them from...
...there was some good art: early genre studies by Winslow Homer, William Glackens' moveing paintings of the Spanish-American War, and Thomas Eakins' The Agnew Clinic, 1889, a monumental study of an operation in an early hospital. There was even a small painting by the great French impressionist, Edgar Degas, of 19th Century Cotton Merchants. But the show's main appeal was to the ordinary American with a warm heart and a taste for a good story. It was a good bet that by the time the Corcoran closed its big cavalcade in December, Americans trooping...