Word: impressionist
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...according to his own sense of design. One can see this technique in these statuettes: he seems to have done precise copies of models and then inventively stretched and bent the forms for characteristic effects. "You need natural life, I need artificial life," he once told a group of Impressionist colleagues, and he was known to attack their techniques savagely with humorous remarks or gestures. Policemen should be employed to go out and gun down all the easels that cluttered up the beautiful countryside, he remarked one day. And once, on passing an Impressionist canvas whose subject was buried...
...show includes more than 150 works by 85 painters. Some of them, like American Impressionist Mary Cassatt and her French counterpart Berthe Morisot, are already embedded in the history of modern art. Others, just as famous in their day, now seem more like footnotes than culture heroines: Rosa...
...stolen paintings, including works by Eugene Boudin, a French Impressionist, and Gerrit Berckheyde, a Dutch painter, are reportedly worth $380,000. Bok borrowed five of the paintings from the Fogg Museum, and owns the sixth...
...Fauvism are familiar enough: the bright, dissonant color, the crude urgency of surface, the distorted drawing and the love of brisk, apparently raw sensation. But there was no unifying doctrine, as with surrealism, nor even a strong common practice, such as the cubists found. "One can talk about the impressionist school," the Dutchman Van Dongen later remarked, "because they held certain principles. For us there was nothing like that; we merely thought their colors were a bit dull...
Derain's The Turning Road, L'Estaque, 1906. Luxe is a clumsily tender Arcadi an idyl, the Isle of Cythera transferred to an as yet unpopular St.-Tropez, spatted with dots of neo-impressionist light. The painting is drenched in idealized wistfulness, even to the title, taken from Baudelaire's L 'Invitation au voyage: "There, all is order and beauty/Luxury, calm and sensuous pleasure." No effort can restore its lost shock value, and this, in a different way, is true of the Derain as well. Today we luxuriate in its weighty design and audacious color...