Word: impressionistically
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...portfolio tucked under his arms, fellow artists would greet him with a shout, "Hail to Moses!" In fact, good-natured, soft-spoken Painter Pissarro's place in art was far more that of teacher, peacemaker and counselor than lawgiver. He was ten years older than most of the impressionist greats, and this induced in him a fatherly urge to take time off from his own painting to patch up quarrels, round up shows, hold together the impressionists as a group. Because he remained in the midstream of the art movements of his day. experimenting with each new movement...
...from being understood-quite far-even by our friends," Pissarro confided to his son toward the end of his life. In his day he was reconciled to receiving $500 for a painting. But since then, the boom in impressionist paintings has far surpassed his wildest imaginings. Today Paris art dealers get $15,000 for a small Pissarro oil. The estimated value of Peasant Digging...
...sailing vessel, stole past silver-sanded coves and pastel villages. On sunny afternoons, while the schooner lay at anchor, passengers dipped in the warm water or sipped in cafes ashore. After dark, white-gloved stewards moved unobtrusively among the guests in a softly lighted dining room hung with French impressionist paintings. Pushed by gentle winds, the Creole headed at week's end for the island of Mallorca. the golden isle of the Hesperides, to which Hercules, of Greek legend, once sailed in search of the Golden Apples...
...years while impressionist art was becoming a common place of the U.S. home, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec has passed through all stages in opinion from monster to master...
This book makes Germany's losing war in the air seem like a poet-painter's vision of mankind in limbo. Only by literary license can The Last Squadron be called a novel. Using the pointillist method of French Neo-Impressionist Georges Seurat, Author Gaiser puts his characters on paper like isolated dots, makes their destinies random and meaningless until the reader can draw back and view them against the broad canvas of total war. The last squadron, a fighter outfit, is stationed at Janneby West, somewhere on the Western front, and its only task is the increasingly...