Word: impressionists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Salter is proud of the most expensive painting she has in the gallery, a landscape for $2500. It is a large canvas in a pseudo-Impressionist blurred style. The colors are muddy and depressing. The paint is so needlessly crusted that it makes you want to pick...
...Institute denounced Franz Schubert as well. Last week the dimensions of the target shrunk, as an article in Jenmin Jih Pao, the Communist Party newspaper, denounced the music of Ottorino Respighi. The work of this modern Italian composer is hardly a touchstone of Western music: he is a minor impressionist whose works are played more often than they deserve. Western critics might denounce him too, if anyone cared. The diatribe in Jenmin Jih Pao specifically cited Respighi's symphonic poem, Pines of Rome for stimulating "empty talk about changes in contrasts and emotions" which tries to "gloss over the class...
...status is a mildly bizarre cult of the price tag. Some of the best customers of art galleries on Madison Avenue and the Faubourg St. Honoré these days are dealers from Tokyo or Osaka, their pockets stuffed with yen, who are willing to pay astronomical sums for French impressionist paintings. Japanese buyers are equally conspicuous at the yearling auctions in Saratoga and Deauville, bidding handsomely for the best thoroughbreds. In fact, the Japanese seem to have supplanted the stereotype Texans as the world's most eager status seekers...
...would be the cowardly thing to do," declared the familiar earnest voice from beneath familiar furrowed brows. "Pat and I this day have adopted two Vietnamese orphans -one from North Viet Nam, one from South Viet Nam. In America, anything is possible." The sound is Richard Nixon, emanating from Impressionist David Frye, taking off the President to crowds at Washington's Shoreham Hotel, Nixon's election-night headquarters. Frye, hunching into his shoulders and flashing a V sign, continues: "My Administration has taken crime off the streets and put it into the White House, where I can watch...
...slightly more conservative. He had 18 Cézannes, no fewer than five of which are in the present show, but he balked at Cubism. Schuhkin, however, absorbed it all, from the primitive and enchanted jungles of Henri Rousseau to the most difficult early cubist Picassos, from the bustling impressionist streetscapes of Pissarro to the dense, darkly resonant and sinister vision with which Gauguin, in Tahiti, could invest even a subject like Still-Life with Fruit...