Word: monets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...park, swans, haystacks, cherry pickers, and happy children with dolls. Berthe Morisot's colors were bright and sunny, her figures nicely drawn and set in an atmosphere of misty calm. Next to her works were ten other paintings from her collection, by such greats as Degas, Renoir, Manet, Monet; these showed where Berthe had learned her style...
...Monet Was Generous. Berthe turned her home over to impressionism's rising lights. She befriended Edgar Degas, Alfred Sisley and Pissaro; Claude Monet generously painted a large landscape for her when she mentioned that she needed something to decorate her studio. Pierre Auguste Renoir joined her circle while he was still painting china plates and window shades for a living. Berthe helped set up exhibits of the group's work, her own included, joined in organizing auctions, and spent hours trying to bring unfriendly critics around to impressionism...
...zanne dabbed, he did not dot (like Seurat) or dash (like Monet). The vibrations of light, which so fascinated his impressionist friends, left him cool. "I know nothing except color," he explained, and added: "Light is but one tone of a place; shadow is another." Mainly through color, Cézanne recreated the deep sunny space of L'Estaque, a canvas which combines the repose of a pyramid with the lightness of air. Through color he made Madame Cézanne look fixed and solid as a newel post (she was a patient poser but a flighty creature, seldom...
...goodness art museum. Santa Barbara, Calif, (pop. 45,000) is one that can. Last week culture-conscious Santa Barbara was celebrating its museum's tenth anniversary. One of the high spots of the anniversary show was a loan display of 30 modern paintings, including masterpieces by Van Gogh, Monet, Rouault and Braque...
Paintings by Cezanne, Degas, Gaugin, Manet, Matisse, Monet, Renoir, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Toulouse-Lautrec are included in the gift. Sculptures by Despiau and Maillol, and drawings by Guys, Matisse, Picasso, and Renoir also are listed in the bequest...