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...work is set up like an automatic mechanism, but hand-painted in a capricious parody of pictorial richness. A load of modernist signs for sensual delight--thick, ropy color that invokes the transparency of water, spots and scribbles betokening light, bits of Matisse interiors, Dufy ports, Bonnard trees, Monet ponds--is dumped on the eye and offered for identification as quotes. Bartlett's studio was one of the places where the '80s mania for "appropriation" began...
...Palace in Vienna . . . Oriental carpets resting on Lauder blue carpeting . . . It's very thrilling." Estee Lauder loves her lavish office. She is equally entranced by her three-story Manhattan town house, the 27-room redoubt in Palm Beach, Fla., the Riviera hideaway with gardens "breathtakingly similar" to those of Monet's Giverny, the London flat filled with English antiques she had shipped from America. The charm of her memoir--part cosmetic- mogul tough talk, part Gracie Allen gab--is that Lauder so heartily enjoys her success and so clearly understands how it all came about...
...embassies and mansions. The neighborhood's air of tranquillity was shattered one morning last week when five armed robbers invaded the museum, held some 40 tourists and eight guards at gunpoint, and made off with nine paintings valued at more than $10 million. Included in the haul was Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise, a 19th century masterpiece from which the Impressionist school takes its name...
Renoir, born in 1841 in Limoges, France, moved to Paris in 1861, where his collaboration with artists like Sisley and Monet led to the founding of the Impressionist movement...
...himself, said that the Museum tries to have guards on duty who are knowledgeable about art. He said that he admired the exhibit because it portrayed Renoir's career from beginning to end (1860's to 1919), and it showed how his style changed as he associated with Cezanne, Monet, and later artist friends...