Word: impressionistically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...landscapes of Camille Pissarro, French impressionist, scarcely paid for their own paint. When he died in 1903, he left a studio cluttered with his own work and that of his friends (Mary Cassatt, Monet, Manet, Seurat, Cezanne). Until last week these were kept as mementos by the Pissarro family. Then they sold them at auction in Paris. The total return was about...
Last week a Ministerial decree announced the imminent transfer of the Luxembourg collection of Impressionist & Post-Impressionist art to the Louvre. For all of the painters the honor was posthumous.* Their long, tempestuous trial at the Luxembourg outlasted their lives. They had tried to paint what they perceived as current realities. Often they were frustrated, tortured in the patient attempts to convey the actualities of their vision. But they believed in an art stimulated by the living, not the dead. For this they were excoriated by a host of pompous academicians, who applauded apes of the classical tradition...
Thus last week's decree was a major triumph for vitality as opposed to senescence. For although Impressionist painting is included in private collections at the Louvre it has never been received in great quantities...
...vibrant, airy landscapes of Claude Monet, worshipper of sunlight, rapt student of motes, beams, the subtle tones of shadows. More than any other man, Monet epitomizes the impressionist movement, the realization that perceptual reality is not composed of insulated objects each of characteristic colors, but is rather a play of shapes at once defined and related by the one blazing spectrum...
...study the law. The son wanted to study art. He studied both simultaneously and never practiced law. His first paintings were realistic and ordinary, yet showed that flashy brilliance that many Russians have when they are young and conceited. He spent a year in Paris and turned impressionist. Fantastic flat decorations are his forte and peculiarity. In this manner he has tried to picture Russia's and Asia's past. His pieces number about 3,000. Several hundred are in the Roerich Museum in Manhattan. They are wierd, mystical, fascinating...