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...Disney. Stein concerned himself with every detail of the institute-from anesthetics to esthetics. He ordered a study of what pictures patients like best, and the vote went to the impressionists. So all rooms have two large, high-quality reproductions of a Renoir or Van Gogh, a Degas or Manet. For the children's clinic, decorated with handmade tiles, Stein got a design from the Walt Disney organization...
...19th century recedes into perspective, it becomes clear that the age was in every respect the equal of the great art epochs of the past and that among its greatest giants was Edouard Manet, one of the first artists to concern himself exclusively with modern times. "We laugh at Monsieur Manet," wrote Emile Zola 100 years ago. "It will be our sons who go into ecstasies over his canvases." Indeed, he is now ranked with Cezanne as one of the major precursors of 20th century painting. The problem is that his once scorned works are now so highly prized...
...best opportunity in nearly a century to scan Manet's life work is the current exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Director Evan H. Turner has tapped 80 collectors and museums around the world, assembled 83 of Manet's oils, rounded out the exhibit with many more sketches, lithographs, pastels and etchings (see color pages). Although the catalogue, by Anne Coffin Hanson, art history professor at Bryn Mawr, is a collector's item for art scholars, the chronological exhibition itself will be seen again only at the Art Institute of Chicago...
...Astray. The loss to the vast museum-going public in other cities is all the greater because Manet, perhaps more than any other painter, gains by the imposing presence and scale of the originals, 17 of which in the Philadelphia show have never before been exhibited in the U.S. The very characteristics that most bothered his contemporaries-his lack of glazes, his impetuous brush stroke, the warping of perspective and the often unfinished quality of his work-were daring risks knowingly faced and boldly taken. To savor Manet's triumphs requires a quick, appreciative eye in the presence...
...light falling through a window. In View of Delft, his only known landscape, they discovered Vermeer's use of pointillé-tiny dabs of pigment that look like crystals of light. In portraits, his delicate lighting seemed to illuminate the very soul of his subjects. The age of Manet was understandably dazzled...