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...interesting to note the influence of impressionism (first exploited in the last century by Monet, Whistler and many others under heavy criticism from their contemporaries) creeping into the work of the academicians. At last the value of pointillage is being recognized by the respectable conservatives, its worth having been proved by more adventurous pioneers. As a result of this tendency, the show is gayer than last year's. If this acceptance of experimental results of advanced artists is to characterize the future work of Academy members, one may expect, in 20 or 30 years, to find cubism...
...Andelys, 60 miles down the Seine from Paris, a school of impressionistic art has thrived for nearly 100 years under such masters as Claude Monet, Pisarro and Cezanne. Once a year the village is astir with an exhibition which students hold in Balzac's old home...
According to a cable dispatch, an old gentleman of 80 recently climbed the dingy stairs to the students' salon. He carried a picture in his arm and asked to have it hung. The old gentleman was Claude Monet (TIME, March 17, Aug. 6). The picture was his reply to reports that, blind, he would never paint again...
This last Monet gives a corner of a flower garden with the sunset showing through the Summer leaves. Its breathless passion of color draws all eyes to it. Monet is master without contemporary peer. Can he be blind...
...Monet still hopes to paint again, and to complete the great mural design of water lilies, to be hung in the orangerie of the Tuileries, upon which he was working when blindness fell upon...