Word: renoirs
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...submissions to the Sundance Film Festival by aspiring independent filmmakers who worship Tarantino, respect Renoir and can recite the manifesto of Dogma 95, only a handful made the final cut—including a documentary by Harvard Visual and Environmental Studies lecturer Robb Moss...
When rheumatoid arthritis was given its name in the 19th century, those who suffered from it--including Impressionist master Pierre-Auguste Renoir--had little to look forward to beyond life in a wheelchair. Even in the 1950s, says Cohen, there were still few treatments available. It was treated with aspirin and cortisone, a powerful anti-inflammatory with severe side effects (at lower doses it is still used). Injections of gold salts also provided some relief, although no one really knew...
...Harvard affiliates can also come in and check out the Renoir classic on DVD to watch solo—“We’re also actively archiving and maintaining DVD and VHS collections,” Price adds...
Grenville L. Winthrop, class of 1886, bequeathed his collection--which includes works by 19th-century masters such as van Gogh, Ingres, Renoir and Sargent, as well as one of the most important collections of Chinese art in the West--to Harvard upon his death in 1943, requesting that the collection remain in Cambridge for students...
When Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Renoir and a handful of other artists - most of them French - began to abandon the formal rules that had dominated painting until the mid-19th century, they brought into the art world a new spontaneity, luminosity and richness. Their revolutionary way of looking at landscapes, gardens and scenes of leisure had particular resonance in a distant land that, a century earlier, embraced some revolutionary French ideas about politics. "I hated conventional art," said Mary Cassatt, a leading American artist of the 19th and 20th centuries. "When I joined the Impressionists, I began...