Word: impressioniste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prove his case quickly. When he began to play a Mozart sonata, its contours were practically flawless, but the playing was so rigidly controlled that the effect was almost oppressive. Beethoven's Sonata Op. 110 was more relaxed, but it was only when he came to the impressionist music of Debussy and Ravel-billowing up tinted clouds of tone and lacing them with bright spiderwebs of melody-that Gieseking seemed at full ease at last. Probably no pianist in the world could have bettered him in those numbers...
...museums and loud argument in its noisy bistros. He first tried formal study in the city's Academic Ranson, but soon gave it up. Ghika got his own studio, met Picasso, Braque, and Jean Arp, and learned the hard way. At first, he copied the impressionist manner of Renoir, then progressed to Cézanne and Seurat, and finally found what he was looking for in cubism. When Ghika held his first Paris show in 1927, it was a near sellout...
...embroidered shawls, and a full gallery of 172 contemporary paintings. In subject, the canvases range from old Hindu rituals to present-day Indian life, but in style they are uniformly modern. The artists show lithe water carriers posed like ballerinas, gay washerwomen and prancing bullocks, frenzied harvest dancers, impressionist landscapes, expressionistic fantasies and, here & there, even a nude. The net result is a bit as if India's artists had listened carefully to lectures from Picasso, Matisse & Co., then gone to work on Eastern subjects with Western ideas. Winter Park, Fla. will see the show next week. Thereafter...
...spent the next 15 years there, giving piano lessons and an occasional recital, jotting down native dance tunes and turning them into her own compositions. Eventually, she abandoned the Western seven-note scale in favor of the Oriental five-note kind, but her music still had some of the impressionist quality of Debussy and Ravel...
...opening this week. Artist Lloyd had no idea what kind of artist he should call himself -expressionist? abstractionist? or what? Frank Perls, owner of the Beverly Hills gallery where Lloyd's work will be shown, has it all figured out. "Just as Rousseau was a primitive impressionist." he announced, "Lloyd is a primitive abstractionist, completely natural and undisturbed by the art of the past...