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...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...
More likely they were thinking, "What the heck was Monet smoking? Those look nothing like real water lilies!" Around the same time, James Joyce is struggling to get Ulysses in print as publishers declare that in addition to being rife with vulgar language, the novel is big and complicated and filled with absurdist characters. Across the Atlantic, Moby Dick has bombed as critics still have not settled the debate on whether the novel is a work of fiction or actually whaling industry propaganda. Van Gogh has already committed suicide, no doubt driven to such despair because he could only manage...
Consider my fictional ancestor visiting the France of 1901--Rudolph Douthat, we might call him, wandering the Quartier Latin and the narrow, flea-market streets of Montmartre. In the last twenty-five years alone, Paris has seen the sculptures of Rodin, the ballerinas of Degas, the water lilies of Monet, the dreamy Provencal mountains of Cezanne--not to mention to paintings of Manet, Seurat, Bonnard, Renoir and many more. Meanwhile, Toulouse-Lautrec is presiding over the Moulin Rouge nightclub, Paul Gauguin has taken ship for Tahiti and set about painting the native girls--and poor, mad Van Gogh is only...
...sculpture park is the brainchild of its director, Paul Tucker, an art history professor at UMass Boston, a recent recipient of UMass's Distinguished Scholarship Award and an internationally renowned expert on Impressionism. With characteristic fervor, Tucker curated the 1998 Monet in the 20th Century show at the Museum of Fine Arts, setting a new attendance record for the museum. At UMass Boston's pre-Commencement dinner this year, Chancellor Penny declared the establishment of the Paul Hayes Tucker Endowed Chair for the Arts, which was facilitated by $1 million donations from members of the Arts on the Point advisory...
...spent her first semester at Harvard preparing her application for a special concentration in architecture. She and Michele paired off immediately as the night owls and would stay up late laughing and writing papers in the messy common room decorated with Monet and Van Gogh posters on the walls. Maya would blast Sarah McLachlan before a test to psyche herself up. She started dating a guy in Canaday...