Word: impressioniste
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DIED. FRANK GORSHIN, 72, rubbery-faced impressionist-actor who channeled his passion for film idols, nourished as a teenage film usher in Pittsburgh, Pa., into a 50-year career in Las Vegas clubs, on TV and in more than 80 movies; of lung cancer, emphysema and pneumonia; in Burbank, Calif. With his apery of Al Jolson, James Cagney and Marlon Brando, Gorshin was a regular on The Ed Sullivan Show, where he was a guest the night the Beatles made their famous U.S. TV debut. ("Look at all these kids that came to see me!" he said backstage...
Record prices and million-dollar sales have become so common-in the art world that no one took much notice when Christie's, the prestigious international auction house, announced in 1981 that it had sold three paintings by the Impressionist masters Degas, Gauguin and Van Gogh for a total of $5.6 million. But earlier this month Christie's U.K. chairman, David Bathurst, admitted that he had lied about selling two of the paintings...
...stage, Sanders Theatre was filled to the brim with a massive well-dressed crowd. The concert opened with Stravinsky’s “Symphonies of Wind Instruments” written in late 1920 based on a group of piano pieces composed earlier that year in honor of Impressionist composer Claude Debussy...
...Ogden Museum of Southern Art, in the city's warehouse district. From downtown, spend $1.25 for a 25-minute trip north on the new Canal Street cable car to the bucolic Sculpture Garden. More than 50 bronze and stainless steel pieces--including Venus Victorious, by French impressionist Pierre Renoir--adorn the garden's lagoons and pine groves...
...knows, is not the kind of thing an unscrupulous buyer could hang in his mansion in plain sight. For that matter, it's hard to imagine some Russian kleptocrat or Colombian drug lord lusting to own anything by the gloomy, sepulchral Munch, not so long as there's an Impressionist landscape to be had instead...