Word: impressionistes
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Last week the critics were taken up short. Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it had acquired one of Dali's latest paintings for its permanent collection. Critical eyebrows shot even higher at the name of the donor: wealthy Chester Dale, famed for his impressionist and modern French paintings and an outstanding connoisseur...
...with no apparent effort, turned his rhetoric on "U.S. warmongers." He won the Stalin Prize for literature in 1948, and the Peace Prize in 1952, waxed rich on royalties from books translated into 25 languages. In Moscow he has a fine apartment hung with French impressionist paintings, owns a country dacha and a villa on the Black...
Emancipation Day. After some years, he began to have a modest reputation for mahogany-brown canvases. He himself decided that they were stale as last week's coffee, and turned to impressionism. His impressionist works dazzled some critics, but failed to satisfy their creator. One day he destroyed a just-finished still life, simply because "it did not express me or express what I felt." He counted his emancipation from that day, but at the turn of the century Matisse was still trying to find his true path...
...delighted in the rich gloss of bitumen, a poor-drying, brown pigment, which he used so excessively that the paint ultimately slipped on the canvas (e.g., in one of his landscapes owned by the Brooklyn Museum, paint ran down and over the frame). Edgar Degas, the French impressionist, striving for certain effects, sometimes reduced his paint to what he called essence by thinning it with gasoline. Now some of his oil paintings have turned chalky and are exhibited under glass...
...Chloe Suite No. 2, in which the strings provided a deep, sunset-colored perspective for the shrill syrinx tones of the piccolo, and the brasses built easily to a sweeping culmination. There were subtle orchestral colors that listeners had never heard before, but for all the music's impressionist vagueness, it never seemed cloudy. The concert ended with a performance of Brahms's First Symphony, so magnificently traditional that the composer might have applauded it as enthusiastically as the Carnegie audience did. On its U.S. tour, the Concertgebouw will be led only part of the time by Conductor...