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...Dante's The Divine Comedy, and St. Augustine in his cell, a fresco for Florence's Ognissanti church later transposed to canvas. It will go to Florence's Palazzo Strozzi (March 10-July 11) after the Paris run. The scion of a wealthy Montpellier family, the ebullient young Impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille shared his ateliers and his allowance with Monet and Renoir and painted with Sisley (while Renoir painted him in the act). His 1870 The Condamine Street Atelier portrayed his friends Manet, Monet, Maitre, Renoir and writer Emile Zola while his own tall, lanky figure...
MEDARDO ROSSO: SECOND IMPRESSIONS. This exhibit of Medardo Rosso’s sculptures is the first at a U.S. museum in 40 years. Medardo Rosso, an “impressionist sculptor,” saved and exhibited his wax casts rather than transforming them into bronzes. Focusing on five Rosso works, the exhibit attempts to determine what he was after when he sculpted 50 different variations of heads and busts. These range from the early “Aetas aurea” (The Golden Age, 1886-87), to the full-figure “Bookmaker?...
Artist Ellsworth Kelly is known for his exuberance with color. The title of one of his more famous canvasses, Blue Green Yellow Orange Red, says as much. Instead of containing dense, Impressionist detail, his paintings are almost austerely abstract. In Blue, a bright solid shape stands confidently against a white background, setting off a contrast between the hues...
There is still a lot of spadework to do before Americans are as familiar with Hindu goddess figures and Mongol textiles as they are with Impressionist oils. Two weeks ago, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts opened the first full survey in the U.S. of the history of Japanese photography. It's a superb show full of work that will mostly be new to Americans, proceeding from lustrous 19th century geisha portraits to the post-Modernist shenanigans of Yasumasa Morimura, who makes heavily stage-managed pictures of himself decked out as Western icons of both sexes--sort of the Japanese...
...Pissarro, and met the young avant-garde of the day: Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Signac, Gauguin, Bernard. His old palette went out the window ("Last year I painted almost nothing but flowers," he wrote in 1887, "so I could get used to colors other than gray.") He experimented with Impressionist brushstrokes and pointillist "stippling" - one superb gallery here pairs off Monet's Boats on the Beach, Etretat with Van Gogh's dappled Woodland Path, and the nearly identical Signac and Van Gogh views of the Boulevard de Clichy. Toulouse-Lautrec's Young Woman at a Table, Poudre de Riz, an unusual...