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Fitzpatrick may have wanted to be first in the door, but Armand Hammer, 87, chairman of Occidental Petroleum and a promoter of Soviet-American relations for more than 60 years, was already inside the room. Several years ago, Hammer had seen a Soviet exhibition of impressionist and postimpressionist paintings in Switzerland. He asked the Minister of Culture if he could borrow it for the U.S. too, but nothing happened until after the summit agreement. Under a deal Hammer and Carter Brown worked out, the National Gallery has already sent 40 impressionist paintings to the U.S.S.R. (Hammer also has loaned...
...structure because we know it exists. The Impressionists gave structure to their paintings by juxtaposing colors. Artists were not content merely to mimic perception. Theorists of color began looking at both how we see and what effects color has on our feelings. And with the paintings of the Postimpressionists, in particular Van Gogh, color began to be freed from nature. Van Gogh exaggerated and distorted color to communicate his vision of the world. For example, in his Sunny Lawn in a Public Park (Arles) (1888) Van Gogh creates a secret garden by forgoing the use of color to suggest realistic...
...British painting at the turn of the century: the son of a Danish father and an Anglo-Irish mother, born in Munich, fluent in German and French. When the general histories of modern art mention him at all, it's as a small footnote to the Symbolists and the Postimpressionists, like Bonnard (the nudes in bedrooms) or Toulouse-Lautrec (the music-hall scenes). But one needs to remember that Sickert was slightly older than most of these painters. He was born in 1860; they hardly influenced him at all. The men who did were pre- rather than Postimpressionist: Whistler, Manet...
...world's most stunning and least seen collections of Impressionist and Postimpressionist art, 1,100 works by such masters as Cezanne, Seurat and Picasso (whose Jester and Young Harlequin is at left), was long confined to the Barnes Foundation building in a Philadelphia suburb, under the terms of Dr. Albert Barnes' will. But 70 pieces will soon be permitted a one-time international tour, according to a ruling issued last week by a Pennsylvania court that settled part of a bitter factional dispute within the foundation. The show will travel to the National Gallery of Art in Washington and possibly...
...BLOCKBUSTER TRAVELING exhibitions, mass-merchandising museum shops and high-profile curatorial politics, the Barnes Foundation, housed in a limestone mansion in suburban Philadelphia, is one of the most striking -- and perplexing -- anomalies of the international art world. It is the repository of a fabled collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist works (180 Renoirs, 69 Cezannes, 44 Picassos and numerous Seurats, Gauguins and Modiglianis). Yet because of the harshly restrictive policies of its embittered founder-patron, the Barnes has largely withheld its treasures from public view...