Word: postimpressionist
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Accordingly, these are mostly pictures shot in the semideveloped region between city and countryside, the kind of not quite urban, not quite rural zone that was seized upon by the French impressionist and postimpressionist painters as the quintessential tilting ground between civilization and the natural state. Sternfeld's vision owes a debt to the unflinching shots of raw suburbs and industrial parks made in the 1970s by Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz and Frank Gohlke, among others. And his penchant for shooting at a far distance has sources in the work of 19th century Western photographers like Timothy H. O'Sullivan...
...most durable form of English hostility came not from the Royal Academy, whose fogies died off, but from the enlightened purlieus of Bloomsbury, where the critic Roger Fry, who had organized the first postimpressionist show at the Grafton Galleries in 1910, and his truculent fugleman Clive Bell, inventor of the catch-phrase "significant form," made it just fine to despise new English art in the name of the French avant-garde. Given their belief in an imperial France whose seigneurs were Cezanne, Matisse and Gaugin, Fry and Bell preferred any imitation of the Ecole de Paris, however pallid, to anything...
...champagne flowed to strains of Vivaldi. Waiters in white tie and tails ministered to elegant patrons seated in rich red velvet banquettes. Behind them, murals of buxom nudes tiptoed into postimpressionist waters. An evening at Maxim's, of course. But this was not Paris. It was, of all bourgeois things, Maxim's de Pekin, which opened last week in China's capital, one of several copies of the Parisian restaurant now owned by Designer Pierre Cardin, 61. Before East could meet West, 15 Chinese spent months learning the art and preparation of haute cuisine in Paris...
...spent 5½ years as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Sunnylands is a modernist San Simeon on 208 acres. Built in 1964 at a cost of $5 million, the mansion alone covers nearly an acre. Inside is a major collection of impressionist (Renoir, Monet) and postimpressionist (Gauguin, Van Gogh) paintings...
...contrast, love objects in Argentina run more toward postimpressionist paintings from pricey Buenos Aires galleries like Wildenstein, or jewelry selected by government officials for their wives from a famed jewelry shop like Ricciardi, a favorite haunt of the late Evita Peron. Those bills too, of course, are paid by the deal-hungry businessmen...