Word: impressionist
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...goods all the time. In 1940, she was a blooming bundle from Britain, packed away from the blitz with her actress mother and sent to study drama in New York. She was, she says, "16, going on 95" when she got her first job-as a nightclub singer and impressionist in Canada. "I did Bea Lillie, Gracie Fields and a Wagnerian opera singer," she recalls. "I wasn't awfully good." True, but her nightclub spot earned enough money to pay her passage to Hollywood, and it was there, at 17, that she got her first movie role, and there...
...French impressionist oils have long been breaking record prices at auctions. So have old masters. Last week two unusual items of artistry also soared to fabulous new highs...
...Bonheur translates the French word for happiness into an exquisite fable of infidelity, set to music by Mozart, delicately filmed in the impressionist manner of Renoir, and committed to an utterly cynical contemporary view of the gap between male and female sensibility. Writer-Director Agnès Varda (Cleo From 5 to 7) suffuses the screen with a rueful, youthful, radiant mood, creates a world of innocence and beauty that looks like an invitation for romping barefoot through fields of wildflowers newly abloom. Only later does she reveal that every blossom holds a thorn...
...piano furnishes ground swells of sound. Debussy's directions for the second movement-"fantastic and light"-set the entire mood for French Violinist Christian Ferras and Pianist Pierre Barbizet. They also play Fauré's Second Violin Sonata, written like Debussy's in 1917 and likewise impressionist in manner, but more restrained...
...first purchase at the age of 29 was a picture of a horse named Pumpkin by the English proto-romantic artist George Stubbs. Then, after his marriage in 1948 to Rachel Lambert (whom he calls "Bunny"), he began exchanging such horsy enthusiasms for the vivacious vegetation of the French impressionist painters across the Channel. "Like the name of the style," he explains, "there is an ever-fresh impression of seeing...