Word: impressionists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...motif a second or third time (as he often did, sometimes decades apart), the images, of village houses in Châtenay or trees in the park at St.-Cloud, each announces its specific qualities of light, reflection, time of day, angle of sight. Atget knew, as the impressionists knew, that the amount of reality any object can disclose is inexhaustible. But his work never succumbed to impressionist softness or generalization. Its tone is one of thoughtful clarity. The old root is not a symbol of old age; it is just wood, under light, put through a lens, chemically fixed...
...work lacks unity." So although there has been no lack of Degas shows, Monet retrospectives, homages to Cézanne and museum tributes to Bazille or Caillebotte, Pissarro has remained less known-an irony, since, with his peculiar steadfastness and probity, he was the linchpin of the impressionist group...
...speak, freighted with scruple, rendered dense by inspection-the blue air and clouds no less than the swatches of plowed and seeded field and the massed trees. Its low tones and construction by horizontal bands make one think of Corot, but its directness of handling points forward to the impressionist "moment...
...conspectus of styles, manners and approaches in the show is somewhat muffled by the lack of key paintings by fundamental masters of realism like Courbet or Honore Daumier. Moreover, there is no way of drawing a hard-and-fast line between the realist enterprise and that of the impressionists. Although artists like Degas and Manet are represented, and although there are some exquisite paintings by figures on the edge of the impressionist group-like Henri Fantin-Latour, whose portrait of his two sisters embroidering and reading is one of the most affecting icons of intimacy in all 19th century...
...drawing was reproduced from a book of art by the French Impressionist Mattisse for use on the posters. "As a woman. I don't see anything degrading about it," Lina Janavicius, who designed the poster, said. "It's a classic, and a beautiful drawing...