Word: impressionist
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Although it has not yet been formally announced, she says she will also dramatize The Namesake: A Novel, by Jhumpa Lahiri. She also plans to do Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul for HBO, and Hari Kunzru’s The Impressionist...
Subtitled “Picasso’s Le meutre and the gender of bathing,” this is the third lecture in the continuing “Bathers, Bodies, Beauty : the Visceral Eye” series at Sanders Theatre. The talk will look at the impressionist representation of women and their place in art history. Lecturer Linda Nochlin is a Professor of Modern Art at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts and specializes in the art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Part of the critically acclaimed Norton lecture series. Admission free. 4 p.m., doors opens...
...when he had long since had his fill of Paris, of its constipated moods, its bourgeois proprieties and its hostility to him, the 43-year-old Gauguin wrote to the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro: "More than ever I am convinced that there is no such thing as exaggerated art. And I even believe that there is salvation only in extremes...
...there, and during his tumultuous few months of living and working with Vincent van Gogh in Arles, that he developed the elements of his mature style--firmly modeled foreground figures against flat ranges of background color. The pigments are abruptly juxtaposed in the Impressionist manner. Landscape in Gauguin is likely to be a furious collision of hot pink against blue and chrome yellow against vermilion. But he would put behind him the short fluttering brushstrokes that the Impressionists had made their sign of the fleeting moment. Gauguin distilled and abstracted, producing an emotional impression, not an optical one, in which...
...magazine never did stoop to Penthouse?s or Hustler?s gynecological avidity. Instead, it applied its techniques of photo enhancement and Vidal Sassoon-style grooming to the pubis. Air-brushed? Say Impressionist. Those unsung Playboy retouchers were Monets of the mons veneris...