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Renoir's work was exhibited in the first Impressionist show in Paris in 1874; his 1904 retrospective exhibit is generally considered to have solidified his reputation as a painter...
This 1985 exhibit is, according to Patch, "a show to reevaluate his stature as a painter." She added that some of the paintings are reunited for the first time in nearly a century...
Though an electrically heated wall simulates the limestone on which bamboo paper dries in China, for the most part, this is the real thing. The painter swears that his paintings are only of real places--places he has seen with his own eyes, and the "double-sided embroiderer" (a woman who stitches onto a screen extremely fine silk which miracuously becomes a double-sided work of art) is one of only four artisans in all of China capable of doing such work...
...Wilson Brandao Giono, a Panamanian painter and sculptor, came to New York City in 1978 following his German girlfriend (now his wife) and, he says, "ran out of money. I was nervous and ready to go back three times; once I even had my suitcase packed. Eventually I found a job as a dishwasher." He began to sell a few art works. One, a geometric illustration of a woman, was chosen as the cover for a New York Spanish telephone directory. He still works two to three days a week as a carpenter and elevator operator but has exhibited paintings...
...figures, not the ground. Hence the theatricality of his failures. But, like his successes, these too are the work of an utterly compelling artist who will die without heirs. No one could imitate Bacon without looking stupid. But to ignore him is equally absurd, for no other living painter has set forth with such pitiless clarity the tensions and paradoxes that surround all efforts to see, let alone to paint, the human figure in an age of photography...