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...tellingly revealed by these 15 oil paintings. The earliest is a 1909 Portrait of the Artist; he is young, bearded, not yet taken with cubism. The latest is The Environs of Rouen, painted in 1960, luminous proof of how apt was his self-summation as a "cubist impressionist." Through April...
...Such a collection is that of Dr. Arthur Hahnloser, who lived in Winterthur, near Zurich, until his death in 1936. In his Villa Flora, a large and angular house behind an iron fence on a faceless street, he gathered one of the choicest private hoards of post-impressionist art in the world (see following pages...
...best summed up by an 1890 dictum of Theoretician and Painter Maurice Denis: "A picture, before being a horse, a nude, or some kind of anecdote, is essentially a flat surface covered with colors in a certain order." Although neither the Nabis nor the Fauves entirely abandoned the impressionist lessons of analyzing the fleeting scans of colored light rebounding from landscape, they flattened their tableaux and added vigorous, if vague and personal, symbolism to their work. In effect, they were the first expressionists...
Miles Davis had come on with his "impressionist" jazz style?a rubato blowing in spurts and swoons, free of any vibrato, cooler than ice. The Modern Jazz Quartet was playing a kind of introverted 17th century jazz behind inscrutable faces, and Dave Brubeck (TIME cover, Nov. 8, 1954) introduced polished sound that came with the complete approval of Darius Milhaud. Suddenly jazz?one of the loveliest and loneliest of sounds, the creation of sad and sensitive men?was awash with rondos and fugues. The hipsters began dressing like graduate students...
...IMPRESSIONISTS-Rosenberg, 20 East 79th. A wealth of French impressionist work in various media ranging from an 1860 Boudin to a 1920 Monet. Other familiar names: Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Cassatt, Fantin-Latour, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pissarro and Van Gogh. Through...