Word: impressionists
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...moment it seemed like the '80s again in the art market: while a dozen works by Andy Warhol failed to find any buyers at all during the spring auctions in New York, a still life by the French post-Impressionist Paul Cezanne sold for $28.6 million...
...hesitates to past judgement on the literary scene. I can't evaluate [poetry]," he says. "Critics evaluate I'm much more like the old lady who was at the show and annoyed the impressionist painters and said, "I don't know anything about art. I know what I like...
When you look at a Watteau fete champetre, an Impressionist boating party or certain Matisses, you are seeing the long-range results of Titian's and Giorgione's invention of the pastoral mode in art: the landscape of pleasure, the earthly paradise derived from Latin literature, with its shepherds, gallants and nymphs. The picture that starts this long train is Titian's Concert Champetre, circa 1509, which is one of the most hermetic and disputed images in all Western art. It gets about 27 columns of dense text in the catalog, chewing over its literary sources, the presence...
...Valentine has as much to do with romance as a Mack Truck has to do with the aesthetic sensibilities of French Impressionist painters. What if Hallmark had settled on a different day to trot out its "Be Mine" cards? Just think...
...from a composite photo of a life-size articulated dummy being delivered to his London studio. For by now, Sickert's interests were shifting decisively to photography -- much to the puzzlement of the London art world. Photos were common speech, immediate, iconic but not "sensitive." They stood the Impressionist cult of the nuance on its head. And turning the black-and-white of photography back into color represented a fascinating challenge for a tonal painter like Sickert...