Word: impressionist
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...Impressionist painters usually limited themselves to visual sensations, but their successors have tried to get into painting every kind of sensation from lightheadedness to a desire for bloody murder. This is one reason why contemporary painting in general shows distortions which once belonged only to caricature or ineptitude. Last week an interesting U. S. distorter, Philip Evergood, had his first one-man show in three and a half years at Manhattan's A. C. A. Gallery...
...list of gifts and bequests acknowledged in the report reveal the museum to be an outstanding art center. The only painting in the country by the famous impressionist, Bazille, was given the museum by his relatives. Other outstanding gifts included a Benin bronzebust from Mrs.John D.Rockefeller Jr., a group of bronze statuettes from Grenville L. Winthrop '86, and a number of Sargent's sketch books and portfolios from the artist's sister, Mrs.Francis Ormond...
...concert halls Delius' music was always more talked about than heard. Even those U. S. concertgoers who knew something of his work thought of him primarily as an Impressionist composer of small-scale, poetic pieces for orchestra, a sort of minor Ravel. Last week, Manhattan music-lovers were jolted into rating Delius many notches higher. His 33-year-old Mass of Life, given a belated U. S. premiere by Conductor Hugh Ross and the Schola Cantorum, proved the outstanding event of the concert season so far, revealed its composer in a new and very different light. No impressionist miniature...
These three men sought the realities of nature and instantaneous vision. Of the three Liebermann alone remained true to the impressionist manifesto. Slevogt wandered off into Rococo day dreams and Corinth soon became tired of mere surface reality and tried to probe beneath...
...current exhibition at the Germanic Museum consists of works by the great German impressionist, Levis Corinth. Corinth, along with Slevogt and Liebermann, led the revolt in Germany against aenemic classicism and romanticism of late nineteenth century German academic painting...