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...Poor Mme. Morisot, the public hardly knows her!" wrote Impressionist Camille Pissarro on the day in 1895 that he heard of the death of his good friend Berthe Morisot. Compared with the following of her great contemporaries, Berthe Morisot's public has always been modest but no history of the impressionist movement could now overlook her. The reason was clear last week at Manhattan's Wildenstem gallery, where 69 of her works hung in the largest Morisot exhibition ever held...
...work on the program was Trade Nocturnes Pour Orchestra by Debussy. It was good to hear this "Impressionist" masterpiece treated with a clear-headed approach that brought out the work's structural solidity. This was not the fog-bound Debussy, but rather the Cartesian Debussy. The essentially rationalist reading was handled excellently by Senturia's charges...
Theo owned and left to his family about a third of Vincent's total creative output, which Mr. Van Gogh saw early and often. Theo's possessions covered the whole range of his brother's art, from the gray Dutch period, to the Impressionist style of Vincent's Paris days to the final agonized distortions of the Auvers paintings. These works have since been put on permanent loan at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Mr. Van Gogh has retained in direct possession only a handful of his uncle's art, enough to decorate the small house outside Amsterdam which...
Vincent Van Gogh, the nephew of the French post-Impressionist artist, will speak at 4 p.m. today in the Fogg Museum Small Lecture Room. A consultant engineer as well as an expert on the elder Van Gogh's art, Van Gogh will discuss how creativity arises, with specific reference to the career of his uncle...
...would spend hours watching his ancient neighbor Claude Monet paint his lily pond. He went to Chartres and was overwhelmed by the cathedral windows, in Paris became the friend of Picasso, Miró and Braque, before returning to the U.S. for good in 1939. He passed through an impressionist phase, dabbled in cubism. But the rise of Hitler convinced him that any art not primarily concerned with moral and spiritual issues...