Word: renoir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conscious cities except New York, there are museums which exhibit contemporary art, a committee of seven art collectors and patrons planned and announced a Museum of Modern Art, to open in October with an exhibition of the sires of today's "modern" art: Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Renoir. The committee has leased a gallery-sized room. For two years they will show the pictures of contemporary European, Mexican and U. S. painters and sculptors, culled from the artists' studios, loaned or given by patrons, loaned or sold by dealers. The neighborhood of the Heckscher Building is the greatest...
...five drawings and prints have been brought together, covering the range of French pictorial art from the early nineteenth century classical revival of David through the romanticism of Delacroix and Gericault, to the pleinair and impressionistic schools in their various phases as represented by Corot, Millet, Monet, Manet, and Renoir. The work of these men is well known in Boston, and the Committee has assembled only a few of their paintings to illustrate the continuity of nineteenth century development and to lead up to the less known post-impressionists--Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, and others...
...Modern artists praised: A. L. Barye, Brancusi, Cezanne, Courbet, Degas, Delacroix, Derain, Eakins, Frueh, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Winslow Homer, Manet, Monet, Picasso, Pissarro, Poiret, de Chavannes, Renoir...
...gigantesque floral graces of Auguste Renoir whose canvases are glowing bouquets of drapery, decoration, tinted flesh...
...taste that has remained definitely French, persisting through various vicissitudes, absorbing much of the point of view of the extreme experimenters and revolutionists, but still maintaining its characteristic lightness and deftness of touch. Thus the influence of the great innovators is obvious in much of the painting, now Renoir, now Cezanne, now Matisse or Rousseau or some other modernist; but beneath it all one seems to feel a rather definite and uniform assumption and attitude toward painting that most of the artists have adopted consciously or unconsciously. It seems to be recognized that at the present day the independent picture...