Word: impressionist
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Just as Whistler honed Sickert's taste for art-world polemics and politics, so his long association with Degas steered him away from being a provincial Impressionist, grazing on first sensations. Construct in the studio, do studies, mistrust "the tyranny of nature." And if you want narrative, why not have it? The world, especially the city -- for Sickert was an intensely urban painter -- was crammed with narratives, and like Degas, Sickert found his in closed rooms and places of popular entertainment. For Degas's cafes concerts, Sickert substituted the British music hall, then at its apex of rowdy success...
...Virginia Spate (Rizzoli; $65). Paul Cezanne put down his fellow painter: "Monet is only an eye." Perhaps, but with that organ the great Impressionist analyzed the effects of sunlight on cathedrals and haystacks and water lilies -- and altered our perceptions forever. A scholarly appreciation reveals...
...world's most stunning and least seen collections of Impressionist and Postimpressionist art, 1,100 works by such masters as Cezanne, Seurat and Picasso (whose Jester and Young Harlequin is at left), was long confined to the Barnes Foundation building in a Philadelphia suburb, under the terms of Dr. Albert Barnes' will. But 70 pieces will soon be permitted a one-time international tour, according to a ruling issued last week by a Pennsylvania court that settled part of a bitter factional dispute within the foundation. The show will travel to the National Gallery of Art in Washington and possibly...
...Fogg has a well-respected collection of European and North American works, including an impressive Impressionist gallery with a number of Monets. The Fogg also features Jackson Pollack, Picasso, Rembrandt and Renoir, as well as Rodin sculptures and twentieth-century photographs...
...BLOCKBUSTER TRAVELING exhibitions, mass-merchandising museum shops and high-profile curatorial politics, the Barnes Foundation, housed in a limestone mansion in suburban Philadelphia, is one of the most striking -- and perplexing -- anomalies of the international art world. It is the repository of a fabled collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist works (180 Renoirs, 69 Cezannes, 44 Picassos and numerous Seurats, Gauguins and Modiglianis). Yet because of the harshly restrictive policies of its embittered founder-patron, the Barnes has largely withheld its treasures from public view...