Word: pisarro
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Losing as a means of winning has some antecedents. When the Paris art establishment declined to let the Impressionists into their annual show in 1863, they got their own Salon des Refuses, and as a result the losers, including Manet, Whistler and Pisarro, are somewhat more familiar names today than such winners as Gleyre and Couture. Then there was, of course, the good luck of Germany and Japan to lose their war against the U.S., which enabled both to enjoy a half-century run of knock-'em-dead economic robustness under American military protection. (Foolishly, Vietnam won its war against...
...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...
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