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...Manhattan's Metropolitan, a superb Monet show...
...always invite judgment by the highest standards of modernism. But the work of his old age is not remotely of the same order as the late works of other old men of the modernist mountain-Matisse at 80 with his colored cutouts, the last paintings of Cézanne, Monet's lily ponds. That sense of exaltation, of a long life resolved and its aesthetic structures made luminously explicit, is missing. Instead, we get a lot of dash and gusto, a polymorphous, ill-focused energy. It is enjoyable, and even tonic. But these are not likely...
Charles Saxon's One Man's Fancy (Dodd, Mead; unpaged; $10.95) is a collage of upwardly mobile Americana. "Is it Manet or Monet who isn't as good as the other?" asks a culture-hungry matron. A father holds his little girl's hand: "What did you learn in school today?" She shows him: an over-the-shoulder judo throw...
...light, than the blue space of The Meeting. Apples in a dish acquire a red density, a solidity-a completeness of being-that no painted apple had before. As the English critic John Berger remarked, the force of gravity was to Courbet what the vibration of light was to Monet and the impressionists. He could put more death into a trout, hooked and flapping on the pebbles, than Raphael could inject into a whole Crucifixion. Courbet's flesh was not an ideal substance, like the flesh of Ingres or Meissonier. Rather, it was weighty, carnal and real. It could...
Charles de Gaulle wore them. So did Impressionist Claude Monet and myriad others. Their glasses, as thick as Coke-bottle bottoms, were and still generally are the unmistakable emblem of millions of people who have undergone surgery for removal of cataracts-clouded lenses of the eyes. Of the 400,000 patients who had such operations last year, the majority were 65 or older. Most now wear the distinctive-and somewhat unflattering-spectacles. But more than 50,000 of them have no need for special glasses; they have undergone a controversial new procedure-the implanting in the eye of a tiny...