Word: impressionistically
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...obvious that the film was really shot in Hollywood, but there are many details that are just right. The rioting Beatles fans still wear the clothing and hair styles of the pre-mod years; Disc Jockey Murray the K and Ed Sullivan (in the eerie reincarnation of Impressionist Will Jordan) are on hand to play their pivotal roles in the drama. The Beatles themselves appear only as ghosts: on record jackets, in silhouette, in newsreel footage and, naturally, via their old song hits on the sound track. That is how it should be, for the movie's subject...
Monet gave impressionism the dignity of classical art, though by the turn of the century he was no longer an impressionist in the sense of working outdoors, directly from the motif. Whether his canvases, he remarked, "are painted from life or not is nobody's business and of no importance whatsoever." They were in fact painted from memory-but the span of memory was as short as the walk from the pond to the studio. In his genius for rendering evanescence within a monumental structure, Monet became a master of le temps retrouvé: the most Proustian of painters...
...problem is that this exhuberance belies the great merit of de Kooning's earlier work, its structure. As Waldman suggests in her catalogue essay, his paintings have moved from expressionism to a kind of abstract, though physically intrusive, impressionism. De Kooning's East Hampton subjects are classic impressionist ones-the nude in the landscape, the jostle of marine reflections, the movement and flicker of small painterly units that correspond to the "feel" of light and wind...
...Rattner, 82, fiery Jewish artist best known for his brilliantly colored paintings with religious themes; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Born in the U.S. to parents who had fled from the Russian pogroms, Rattner after World War I settled in France, where his work was influenced by both the impressionist and the cubist schools. He returned to the U.S. in 1940 convinced by the rise of Nazism that art should not merely concern itself with style, but should deal with moral and spiritual issues. These he depicted not only on canvas but in tapestries, stained-glass windows and portfolios...
...Malet is fortunate: Created in an age so befuddled by every kind of "-ism" from Fauvism to Cubism to Dadaism, and with new fashions developing in geometric progression, it is graced by a label which, while evoking instant recognition (everyone's aunt gushes over "the lovely Impressionist paintings"), does not really set any limits on an artist's self-expression. Impressions pure and simple. Few painters escape the biggest pitfall along this path--a surrendering to the superficial image, a revelling in aesthetics and the senses as a compensation for one's alienation from modern life, what Walter Pater called...