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...Claude Monet, blind French painter and last of the great Impressionists, recovered his eyesight after a surgical operation at which his oldest friend, Georges Clemenceau, stood at his side to cheer him. Monet, 83, has been blind for several years. It is not likely that he will paint another of the remarkable "series" which made him famous. But he has recovered what he chiefly sought in art-the pageant of moving light...
...Claude Monet...
When Edouard Manet died of tertiary syphilis in 1883 at the age of 51, Emile Zola and Claude Monet helped carry his coffin to the grave. In life, his milieu had included nearly every French artist of significance, along with writers of the stature of Charles Baudelaire and Stéphane Mallarmé; the latter called him "goat-footed, a virile innocence in beige overcoat, beard and thin blond hair graying with wit." Dressed to the nines, Manet was celebrated as a dandy in that city of dandies, Paris. To read his friends and admirers, you would suppose that...
...American critic put it, "haggard with self-consciousness"are much envied in Tokyo. But the most admired living artists are all Western, with Jasper Johns at the top, closely followed by Christo, whose island-fringing project in Miami's Biscayne Bay-as Japanese as a Monet, blooms of pink on the still water-caused great excitement on the other side of the Pacific. It is possible to find current work of real merit, like the exquisite objects of washi (handmade paper) with tones and twigs embedded in them, by the Kyoto artist Shoichi Ida. Yet the resignation with which...
...West will be taken by horse-drawn carriages to the Georgian-style Governor's Palace. During their stay, the dignitaries will dine on such regional delicacies as batter-fried crayfish, Southern-fried chicken and Tex-Mex chile con carne, prepared under the direction of Chef Pierre Monet, formerly of Maxim's in Paris. At the President's insistence, the leaders will not even be burdened with the rigors of a formal agenda. As one White House aide put it, "The challenge is to keep things as natural as possible...