Word: impressionist
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...Manhattan penthouse office) and a Renoir landscape at a Parke-Bernet auction in Manhattan in 1949. His first major purchase was Renoir's The Two Sisters, for which he paid $53,200 at Paris' famed Cognacq collection sales in 1952 which touched off a boom in Impressionist paintings. He bought his collection's ' most important single work, El Greco's Pieta for $400,000 to celebrate New Year...
...apply the accolade master to these fifty-five painters and sculptors without drawing wholesale fire from all sides. The day is not long past when on the one hand Picasso and Matisse were charged with anarchy or incompetence or when, on the other, Bonnard was denounced as a "decadent impressionist" or Chagall as a "reactionary from cubism." More than half the artists exhibited are now deceased and almost all are very much the product of environments no longer to be found anywhere on the globe. In more ways than one these twentieth century works are the inheritance of our time...
...mighty oaths ("My God! I'd rather go to Europe than to Heaven!"). His styles became as varied as his enthusiasms, but in his summer house in Southampton he allowed himself to relax, painted the windswept Shinnecock Hills, and the shore dotted with parasoled ladies, in glowing, impressionist colors as pure as the salt air and clean as fresh linen...
When Edvard was 14. his elder sister Sophie died of tuberculosis. The delayed impact of his sister's death showed in Sick Child (opposite), a theme Munch first sketched when he was 22, continued obsessively in lithographs and oils. Owing some of its quality to the impressionist colors he had seen in Paris, it captures what he bore indelibly in his memory: "the pale head with bright red hair against the white pillow, the trembling lips, the transparent skin, the tired eyes...
...rise to fame of a naturalized Chinese named Kao K'o-kung, whose ancestors came Lorn Central Asia. He joined the Khan's court, and rose to become his Minister of Justice. Endowed with extraordinary ability as a painter, he first patterned his style on the impressionist manner of Mi, later emulated the landscapes of loth century Painter Tung Yuan, finally retired to savor the intellectual climate of Hangchow. His Mist in Wooded Mountains shows that he could combine these earlier influences into a work that became uniquely his own. The drama is in the landscape itself...