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...impressionist friends, Vincent Van Gogh was a pathetic puzzle. Renoir, Monet and Pissarro all painted nature ripe and smiling in iridescent veils of sunlight, but the touchy, red-bearded Dutchman couldn't manage that; he seemed to be after something different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Agony, Bliss & Hard Labor | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Green novel to be published in the U.S. and perhaps the best of his seven, readers will see for themselves just what the "rudimentary" trap of blended yearning, lust, selfishness and self-sacrifice, i.e., love, looks like in the hands of an experienced man with a musical ear, an impressionist painter's eye, and a poet's obsession with life's hidden undercurrents and emotional mysteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Molten Treasure | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Veteran Post-Impressionist Pablo Picasso, 67, paused in the glare of the sun for an earthy, realistic photograph while strolling near his villa at Vallauris, near Cannes, with his twentyish mistress, Francoise Gillot, and their two-year-old son, Claude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Footloose | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Alkire, like many a leather-faced farmer and ginghamed housewife who thought "they could do better," looked with a jaundiced eye at the shorthanded post-impressionist manners of the art-school artists. Sniffed she: "Art is done for beauty. Not that grotesque stuff. A picture is supposed to speak its own piece, the same as a billboard. If you have to stop and ask questions . . . it's no good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Fair Art | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...French neo-impressionist painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Danger, Poet at Work | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

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