Word: impressionists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...20th century gallery the people admired the immovable flecks of paint that still suggested the fleeting vision of a group of Post-Impressionist painters. They chatted idly. The afternoon was a skirmish of de-clawed cultural one-upmanship. There was a lot of talk about market prospects for the paintings and the scarcity of a certain artist's work because it is difficult to sound knowledgeable about the sensations impressionism evokes. It is perhaps the most ambiguously worded of artistic messages precisely because it imparts no message. There is a foreshadowing of the primitivism of later 20th century...
Charles de Gaulle wore them. So did Impressionist Claude Monet and myriad others. Their glasses, as thick as Coke-bottle bottoms, were and still generally are the unmistakable emblem of millions of people who have undergone surgery for removal of cataracts-clouded lenses of the eyes. Of the 400,000 patients who had such operations last year, the majority were 65 or older. Most now wear the distinctive-and somewhat unflattering-spectacles. But more than 50,000 of them have no need for special glasses; they have undergone a controversial new procedure-the implanting in the eye of a tiny...
Five of the six paintings were on loan from Harvard's Fogg Art Museum, including two works by the 19th century French impressionist Eugene Boudin and one by the 17th century Dutch painter Gerrit Berckheyde, valued at $100,000 each...
...selected segments of the tapestry showing such details as the original stitching and repairs that have been made over the years. The museum will soon use the camera in connection with an exhibit of its world-famous collection of Monets. The full-sized photographs will show several of the impressionist paintings before and after they were cleaned of color-obscuring varnish...
Five of the six stolen paintings, including works by 19th century Impressionist Eugene Boudin, 17th century painter Gerrit Berckhyde and American landscape artists Twachtman and Gifford, were on loan from Harvard's Fogg Art Museum...