Word: impressionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French neo-impressionist painter...
Pablo Picasso, 67, leading post-impressionist and a founder of cubism, was seriously dabbling again in realism. For Paris' Communist-sponsored "World Congress of Partisans of Peace," scheduled for later this month, he had painted a dove of peace that looked just like a dove. The bird, trilled Communist L'Humanite, was "vital and soft. Its plumage shines and drives back the shadows...
...Winston Churchill, whose painting of Ste.-Victoire is a fair, if fuzzy, essay in impressionist technique...
Died. Charles Prendergast, 79, artist brother of the late Impressionist Maurice, reviver of a long-neglected Italian Renaissance technique of painting; in Norwalk, Conn. Prendergast produced gleamingly rich paintings like Persian miniatures by a process called "incised gesso": etching an outline on a plaster-and-glue base, then applying egg tempera and liberal quantities of gold leaf...
...Impressionist Claude Monet made a point of signing his iridescent canvases of lily pads, meadows and sparkling waves with his first name as well as his last, so as not to be confused with his close friend Manet...