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Cezanne admired the Impressionists, especially Pissarro and Renoir, and derived inspiration from them; it is hardly possible to imagine his landscapes of the 1870s without their quantum of Impressionist freshness. But the whole thrust of his work is about something other than the delight in the fleeting moment, the "effect" of light, color and atmosphere, to which Impressionism was dedicated. Underneath the delectable surface was structure, like reefs and rocks beneath a smiling sea, and that was what Cezanne sought and obsessively analyzed--the bones and masses of the world. His famous remark about seeking in nature "the cylinder...
...what can explain the behavior of those who spent such outlandish sums to relieve Jackie's children of parcels of their property? Someone with the taste and means to drop a fortune on an Impressionist painting has at least the pleasure of owning and looking at something beautiful. What is the person who paid $85,000 for a cigarette lighter with an inscribed J on it supposed to do with the thing? Light cigarettes? Take it out at dinner parties and mention casually that it once belonged to Jackie? And wouldn't the other guests immediately loathe the confidence...
...most talented painters among them were Henri, Bellows and Sloan. Glackens turned into a late-blooming Impressionist, and Shinn was essentially an illustrator, while Luks' coarse, rhetorical talent produced a lot of formulaically macho painting leavened only by a few significant works, such as The Wrestlers...
DIED. GEORGE KIRBY, 71, comedian-impressionist; of Parkinson's disease; in Las Vegas. One of the first African-American stand-ups to play Vegas clubs, Kirby was for years a fixture on TV variety and talk shows. His repertoire of 100 voices spanned races and sexes, including dead-on renditions of jazz divas Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald...
Through June 4. "Dennis Miller Bunker: American Impressionist." Featuring 50 of the artist's finest works, this exhibition accompanied by an extensive catalogue...