Word: post-impressionist
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...approach the criticism of art forms. Professor Cunningham believes, for instance, that landscape paintings exhibit the same high redundancy that television pictures do. Williams College Art Professor S. Lane Faison Jr. cautioned, however, that the very best art exhibited the least redundancy, e.g., the paintings of French Post-Impressionist Paul Cézanne, who evolved a style that was a. kind of shorthand. In Cézanne's paintings, said Faison, "whole areas of information" were eliminated: "tables, fruit . . . where the light came from, what time of day it is." Redundancy in painting, added Faison, is the very thing...
Vollard did not do badly, either. When he died in 1939, at the age of 72, he had not only helped promote his friends to awesome heights; he had also amassed a tidy fortune for himself and one of the world's best collections of impressionist and post-impressionist...
...Veteran Post-Impressionist Pablo Picasso, 67, paused in the glare of the sun for an earthy, realistic photograph while strolling near his villa at Vallauris, near Cannes, with his twentyish mistress, Francoise Gillot, and their two-year-old son, Claude...
...Alkire, like many a leather-faced farmer and ginghamed housewife who thought "they could do better," looked with a jaundiced eye at the shorthanded post-impressionist manners of the art-school artists. Sniffed she: "Art is done for beauty. Not that grotesque stuff. A picture is supposed to speak its own piece, the same as a billboard. If you have to stop and ask questions . . . it's no good...
Pablo Picasso, 67, leading post-impressionist and a founder of cubism, was seriously dabbling again in realism. For Paris' Communist-sponsored "World Congress of Partisans of Peace," scheduled for later this month, he had painted a dove of peace that looked just like a dove. The bird, trilled Communist L'Humanite, was "vital and soft. Its plumage shines and drives back the shadows...