Word: impressioniste
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This book makes Germany's losing war in the air seem like a poet-painter's vision of mankind in limbo. Only by literary license can The Last Squadron be called a novel. Using the pointillist method of French Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat, Author Gaiser puts his characters on paper like isolated dots, makes their destinies random and meaningless until the reader can draw back and view them against the broad canvas of total war. The last squadron, a fighter outfit, is stationed at Janneby West, somewhere on the Western front, and its only task is the increasingly...
Debussy (Marisa Regules, pianist; Esoteric). Argentine Pianist Regules applies her precise and prodigious technique to six works by the great impressionist and to the special problems posed by the little Siena pianoforte (TIME, Aug. 29). The result is something special. The sound is not quite so singing as Debussy intended, yet its harplike notes are not entirely out of character...
France's 19th century Impressionist Painter Berthe Morisot (sister-in-law of Edouard Manet) had little or nothing to do with Ireland's ages-long fight for freedom. She was merely one of many painters whose works were fancied by the wealthy Dublin connoisseur and art dealer, Sir Hugh Lane. But Ireland's grievances against Great Britain are many, and not the least of them concern the French impressionist pictures that once belonged to Sir Hugh...
...French impressionist painting has become one of the most sought after and, therefore, overpriced arts in history. The exquisite American impressionist school, which followed in the light footsteps of the French, remains undervalued. Yet museum directors-sensitive to a growing popular interest in American painting-have been snapping up such characteristic examples as Childe Hassam's Church at Old Lyme, Conn, and Maurice Prendergast's Sunset and Sea Fog (opposite...
...raucous laughter echoed on to haunt the critics. Today these impressionist "palette scrapings," as they were derisively called, are among the most popular paintings of Western art. And their popularity commands a hefty price. The two new acquisitions of impressionist painting (opposite) by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and Minneapolis' Institute of Art are today valued by experts at upwards of $30,000 apiece...