Word: renoirs
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...went to Paris between 1890 and 1930, the highest years of French influence on world culture. It does not contain a single masterpiece; almost everything in it is derivative, and not always very intelligently so. One would not normally cross the street to see earnest Japanese pastiches of Renoir, looking like inflamed rubber dolls. The only artist in it whom anyone in America is likely to have heard of is Fujita Tsuguji, he of the sinuous, minutely penciled studio nudes whose prices seemed so excessive when the Japanese started buying them back at auction 15 years ago. And yet, against...
There are also more than enough works of the Impressionists to satisfy their most ardent fans Renoir, Degas. Manet--the Fogg has works by the whole lot. That is to say nothing of Rembrandt and the other Flemish hordes. some great modern painters and lots of wonderfully gruesome religious art. You can even go and gaze adoringly at Picassos should you wish to do so. Whatever your tastes the Fogg can cater to them; sumptuous nudes or tully draped Madonnas, tranquil still-lives or colorful battle scenes, sculpture or painting, ancient or modern, whatever takes your fancy...
...recounts his experience at the blockbuster Renoir exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts two years ago. "It was like we were on a moving sidewalk, and the paintings were just standing still. Or actually, we were standing still, and the art was moving by," he says. "The people were like a snake going through the rooms...
When Duke forward John Smith took a pass down low and jammed it home for the first hoop of the game, his move became an act of classical athleticism. And when Crimson Co-Captain Keith Webster squeezed in a dipsy-do-lay-up, it had the flavor of a Renoir...
...other volumes share the same aim. Florence Cassen Mayers' red ABC (Abrams; $9.95) uses objects in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston: D is for a Renoir dancer; N is for an Audubon nest; V is for a Degas violinist. Mayers also offers a matching blue volume (Abrams; $9.95), with works from the Museum of Modern Art in New York: F is for a Jasper Johns flag; N is for a starry night by Van Gogh; G is for an appropriate goat by Pablo Picasso. After all, he was the artist who said it took him a lifetime...