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...Claude Monet will be installed in the impressionist galleries for the first time in nearly 20 years. No institution outside of France holds a larger collection of paintings by Monet than the MFA. The installation will be complimented by a selection of works by other impressionists such as Renoir, Degas, Manet and Gauguin...
...Auteull is a creamy confection of Impressionistic and post-Impressionistic techniques. Painted in 1901, around the time when he first moved to Paris, the bright palette of yellows and greens can be likened to the hues of Toulouse-Lautrec's works. In some places, the brushwork is feathery like Renoir's; in other places, it is more deliberate and thick like Van Gogh's. There are three pairs of women twirling about one another, their shapes congealing and dissolving. The trails of their dresses look like mermaid's tails, giving their bodies an organic quality as if they originated...
...Gary Tinterow and the French art historian Henri Loyrette, chief curator of the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, it has drawn in an astonishing number of major works -- nearly 30 Manets; more than that number of Monets; and work by a whole gamut of artists from Renoir to Cezanne and Whistler, from Frederic Bazille to academicians like Jean-Leon Gerome and even William Bouguereau. It focuses on the early years of the movement, the 1860s, before "New Painting" became controversial with the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874. It asks, What formed Manet, Monet, Degas, Renoir and the rest; what ambitions...
...broken touches without "academic" preconceptions is strictly for the birds in the sunlit trees. What's wrong with the name Impressionism is that it suggests quick shots of fleeting things. Yet the main progenitor of New Painting was the most solid, stubborn and material painter imaginable, Gustave Courbet. A Renoir like Bather with a Terrier, 1870, could hardly exist without the example of Courbet's wardrobe nudes. Courbet was the doubting Thomas of painting, the great empiricist who wanted to verify everything by touch, and his influence pervades Manet's work as well...
...only of great freedom of workmanship and loose interpretation of the buildings and boats from which he painted, but also of extending himself beyond a purely idealistic frame into moody, sometimes hasty applications of deep oranges and purples, casting darker clouds on the exuberance of his most popular Renoir imitations...