Word: impressioniste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BUSY TO PAINT? CALL ON THE GHOST ARTISTS. WE PAINT IT-YOU SIGN IT, read an advertisement in the Washington Post last week. Explaining further, the ad said that Ghost Artists were well qualified to turn out work in almost any manner: primitive ("Grandma Moses type"), impressionist, modern, cubist and abstract...
...zanne dabbed, he did not dot (like Seurat) or dash (like Monet). The vibrations of light, which so fascinated his impressionist friends, left him cool. "I know nothing except color," he explained, and added: "Light is but one tone of a place; shadow is another." Mainly through color, Cézanne recreated the deep sunny space of L'Estaque, a canvas which combines the repose of a pyramid with the lightness of air. Through color he made Madame Cézanne look fixed and solid as a newel post (she was a patient poser but a flighty creature, seldom...
Charles Platt '54 contributed a photogram, an interesting composition made by the application of chemicals to sensitized paper. His lithograph, "Tension" is peculiarly lacking in tension and his oils are ineffectual. Dudley Uphoff '55 is represented by eight oils which are in the Impressionist style. They lack imagination and care in execution, if not in the actual application of paint. Two of his landscapes are pleasant at a distance of fifty feet...
...grey-faced corpse ironically alongside a menacing array of medicine bottles. Although he never left Belgium, Ensor's pictures helped set off detonations all over Europe. "I indicated all the modern experiments," he boasted. "When I look at my drawings of 1877 I find cubist angles, futurist explosions, impressionist flakings, dada knights and constructivist structures." Some Ensor followers: Swiss Paul Klee, Russian Marc Chagall, Belgian Paul Delvaux...
Degas once exhibited with the impressionists out of deference to his friend Manet, but he hated being called an impressionist. Actually he stands alone in the history of French art, an austere, bitter-tongued man who refused to paint outdoors because he did not want to catch cold. Degas was an expert on the human figure, which he handled as objectively as a chair. He was not sentimental about ballet, described his dancer-models as "little rats." One of the "rats" once remarked that "when you work for Degas you feel every bone in your body." Anyone who looks long...