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...rapid, loose strokes rather than to aim for dead exactness. After Manet married, Berthe transferred her affections to his younger brother Eugene, who in time became her husband. Their house on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne became one of Paris' brightest salons. Impressionists Claude Monet and Edgar Degas were members of the circle, and so was a struggling artist named Auguste Renoir...
...started painting in earnest after World War I, when he settled in the French village of Giverny on the Seine. There he 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...
...sunlit Landscape at Le Pouldu, lent by Paul Mellon, '29. France leads the list with 99 entries; next is the U.S. with 42. Most represented artist in the show is Picasso, with eleven pieces, followed by Degas with ten, Rodin with six, and Matisse. Cézanne, Monet and Vuillard with five each. The most represented U.S. artist is Winslow Homer, with three. Only Yale alumnus shown: Reginald Marsh, '20, with East Tenth Street Jungle...
...older, one does what one does. One doesn't talk." Why does he still paint things reminiscent of his native city of Vitebsk, a good half-century after his departure? Replied Chagall, who believes that most artists pick their basic themes early in life: "Cezanne took apples. Monet took trees. I was born where there were no trees or apples-only frozen apples-to take. So I took what there was." Emphasizing his view, he added: "Gauguin went to Tahiti, but the Gauguin who painted before Tahiti remained. Van Gogh in Holland-The Potato-Eaters-is very important. Experience...
...abstractness of his last pictures, which crowned 70 years of dedicated work, make Monet a supposedly transitional figure. He would have denied it. Though half-blinded by cataracts in both eyes toward the end of his career, he was concerned more than ever with the most evanescent effects in nature. The swift slashings of the abstract expressionists shut out what Monet so reverently embraced. Last week's exhibition made plain-as the Modern had perhaps not intended-that Monet has no heir...