Word: impressionist
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...Nitze supervised the preparation of NSC-68 as director of the State Department's policy planning staff. His desk was only a conference room away from that of his friend and boss, Secretary of State Dean Acheson. His office in Foggy Bottom today, its walls decorated with memorabilia and impressionist art, is almost as close to George Shultz...
...feeling of a life sketch that argues a lot of preliminary drawing; and an occasional awkwardness in the relation of figures within a painting suggests that she has been fitting together drawings done on the spot. Over this lies the integument of broken atmosphere, a congealed version of impressionist flicker...
...would have liked to hear, for variety, at least some Beethoven, or better yet, some impressionist music or contemporary works. Still, one looks forward to more student recitals sponsored by the Music Department...
Accordingly, these are mostly pictures shot in the semideveloped region between city and countryside, the kind of not quite urban, not quite rural zone that was seized upon by the French impressionist and postimpressionist painters as the quintessential tilting ground between civilization and the natural state. Sternfeld's vision owes a debt to the unflinching shots of raw suburbs and industrial parks made in the 1970s by Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz and Frank Gohlke, among others. And his penchant for shooting at a far distance has sources in the work of 19th century Western photographers like Timothy H. O'Sullivan...
...reserves of France's government-owned 19th century art. These collections of painting and sculpture were spread very widely, throughout Paris and on loan to regional museums and government offices. Orsay has called them in and resifted them. The best-known of these collections was that of Paris' renowned impressionist museum, the Jeu de Paume, which, before its collection was moved across the Seine last summer, was attracting three-quarters of a million visitors annually to gaze at its superb Cezannes, Monets, Renoirs, Van Goghs and Lautrecs. There was a residue of 19th century work from Paris' former Musee National...