Word: monet
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...accused of market games, for chances are that an interactive guitar show or a glimpse into our forebearers living room will bring more dollars and people to the museum than a huge exhibition of Greek amphora vases. The trend at the MFA has been to make art approachable. The Monet blockbuster in 2000 did not represent a challenge for aesthetic appreciation, as one doesn’t need to understand color theory to appreciate rainbow-colored water lilies...
There were a few exceptions to this honor roll of stupidity, mainly other painters. Impressionists such as Claude Monet, younger than he, saw Manet as their hero and leader--although he never exhibited with their group. Charles Baudelaire was his friend; Emile Zola famously defended him in 1866 and partially based the implausible chief character of his novel L'Oeuvre (The Masterpiece) on Manet--though, less famously, he changed his mind after Manet's death and called him "not a very great painter...an incomplete talent...
relations coordinator. "Monet in the 20th century brought more people here than any exhibit around the world last year." Strauss says...
...Strauss admits the MFA's attendance drop is probably the result of a comparison with the unnaturally high attendance at the Monet exhibit...
...battle it out, leaping over the treetops and chasing each other's dress trains, while leaves, fanned by the wind, drift down like confetti tossed by an admiring god. It's as though Zhang took a French impressionist canvas for a backdrop and spooled it onto the lens - a Monet brought to life by two dancing scarlet brushes...