Word: impressionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the twelve had found their own styles during the war years, when neutral Ireland was left to stew in its own juices. They shared a liking for landscape, and misty Irish light-like Patrick Hennessy's silvery, ruined Cathedrals (see cut). Their leader was veteran Impressionist Jack Butler Yeats, brother of poet William...
Died. Pierre Bonnard, 80, great 20th Century impressionist painter, one of France's "Big Four" of modern art (with Picasso, Matisse, Rouault); on the Riviera, near Cannes...
...regular G.O.P. He and Martha remodeled a rambling house on Indian Hill. He promoted the Cincinnati Symphony, founded by his mother, and planned and raised the funds to turn Uncle Charles' mansion into a museum housing Rembrandts, Van Dycks and other paintings of a more settled pre-impressionist...
When Renoir wrote those words (in 1882) his deft blottings pleased his impressionist friends but not himself. Like Monet, Sisley and Pissarro, Renoir had learned to see nature as a dazzling cobweb of colored light, where the shapes of things melt and blend like mist. But at 40 the spare, scraggle-bearded painter grew suddenly sick of mistiness, went digging for solid forms. He became a student again, and spent the next two years in life classes, learning to draw...
...four decades Pierre Bonnard has changed neither his style nor his subjects. His lushly colored, impressionist scenes of French life delight the eye, make no demands on the mind. Having neither the audacity of Matisse nor the intellectuality of Picasso, he turns constantly to the commonplace: simple cottage interiors, village streets, somnolent nudes, bowls of fruit or fish, all as familiar and soothing to his fellow Frenchmen as old bed slippers and good wine...