Word: impressionists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Jean Renoir, 84, master French film maker whose work strongly reflected his own ironic wit, love of nature and sympathetic curiosity about human behavior; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Son of Impressionist Painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean as a red-haired child often posed for him and later married one of his models. With his wife as the star, Renoir directed his first movie in 1924; during the next 45 years he directed and wrote some three dozen films, among them such masterpieces as Toni (1934), the antiwar Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules...
...British capital to join in a buying spree whose force startled even the more jaded veterans of the polished world of high-priced art. To be sure, nothing like the colossal 700-work collection of medieval ivories and enamels, old master paintings and drawings, Renaissance sculpture and impressionist paintings amassed by onetime German Leather Manufacturer Robert von Hirsch was likely to come on the block soon again. But, even so, the long awaited sale was a stunner. By week's end, with Von Hirsch's collection of impressionist paintings still to be sold, the orders on Sotheby...
...obvious that the film was really shot in Hollywood, but there are many details that are just right. The rioting Beatles fans still wear the clothing and hair styles of the pre-mod years; Disc Jockey Murray the K and Ed Sullivan (in the eerie reincarnation of Impressionist Will Jordan) are on hand to play their pivotal roles in the drama. The Beatles themselves appear only as ghosts: on record jackets, in silhouette, in newsreel footage and, naturally, via their old song hits on the sound track. That is how it should be, for the movie's subject...
...serious Billie Burke" by one of her friends, Author Truman Capote, Bunny is a woman of great, if somewhat eccentric style and a brilliant landscapist. At the request of another friend, Jacqueline Kennedy, Bunny redesigned the White House gardens; her own gardens in Virginia look like an impressionist painting...
Monet gave impressionism the dignity of classical art, though by the turn of the century he was no longer an impressionist in the sense of working outdoors, directly from the motif. Whether his canvases, he remarked, "are painted from life or not is nobody's business and of no importance whatsoever." They were in fact painted from memory-but the span of memory was as short as the walk from the pond to the studio. In his genius for rendering evanescence within a monumental structure, Monet became a master of le temps retrouvé: the most Proustian of painters...