Word: impressionist
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...what Gustave Courbet pretended to be: the son of peasants. Born in 1814, he spent most of his life in rural France. He was able to perceive the land and the labor it exacted from men as substance and process, not as a sight for a city-dwelling impressionist on an outing. Millet's The Plain of Chailly, 1862, was unlike virtually every previous landscape in Western art. It is neither a bird's-eye "world view" in the fashion of Bruegel nor a meditation on cosmic energy as in Turner. It is not "romantic." Especially...
...same may be said of the best of the new variety hours, RICH LITTLE (NBC, Monday 8 p.m. E.S.T.), which uses its star's talents as an impressionist very shrewdly. Since there is no one Little cannot imitate, there is no area of show biz he and his cohorts cannot satirize. The program is up against killer competition (Rhoda and Phyllis) but well worth channel switching to catch...
Degas as a painter is usually lumped into the Impressionist category, but, unlike the others of that crowd, he relied a great deal on the use of line in his works. Some of his early portraits fall into a category somewhere between drawings and paintings, and it was by producing a series of monotypes that he finally resolved the conflict between lines and areas of color in his work. Monotypes are made somewhat like lithographs, but only one image is produced, and, in Degas's work, it was then colored in with pastels. Lenore Hill has made studies of Degas...
Boston Museum of Fine Arts. A few years ago the MFA shuffled its French impressionist paintings from permanent display to the special exhibition rooms, presenting the rerun of these favorites as a new show. These all too familiar paintings were a disappointing sight to those who had paid the extra admission price. The only consolation was a room full of rarely shown American impressionist oils and watercolors whose novelty if nothing else made for you yearn more. This desire was likely to be unfulfilled--museums usually give space to European art rather than the more derivative American...
...lend their treasures. Two years ago, Art Collector Armand Hammer, who is also chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp. and a tireless promoter of business deals with the U.S.S.R. (TIME, Jan. 29, 1973), arranged for the first showing in the U.S. of a group of Hermitage paintings, all French impressionist and post-impressionist works. This spring Hammer persuaded the Soviets to send over 30 paintings more widely representative of European...