Word: renoirs
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...pages of women's magazines into box office scenarios, Remarque appeared to be a kind of cinematic fantasy himself. He was at least as handsome as his own leading men. For a time he had been a racing driver of sorts. He collected Van Gogh, Cézanne, Renoir and Degas. What more could a reader ask of a novelist? But behind the celebrity-author lay a more substantial personality...
...sort of New Deal liberal who receives $3,500,000 from his parents as a little wedding gift, Henry has been an effortless and graceful overachiever. All that can be obtained by caste, money, good looks, charm and intelligence belongs to him. His home is decorated with originals by Renoir, Rothko and Braque, as well as by a wife who is very nearly as elitist as himself. He stars at academic conferences and commutes to Washington to advise an old friend and fellow millionaire, Bill Laughlin, about his ascending political career...
...thus encouraged, Hopper began to paint oils again and experiment with watercolors. He was also drawing from the nude at the Whitney Studio Club in Manhattan. The works of this period show he was a good draftsman who could depict a naked woman with an earthy sensuousness that Renoir might have approved. In the early '20s on a trip back to the New York School of Art, he became interested in Art Student Josephine Verstille Nivison, a small, vivid, thirtyish woman whose volubility and quick wit were the exact opposite of Hopper's quiet slowness. In 1924, when...
...pictures went on public view for the first time in a new underground gallery excavated below the museum garden. There were paintings by Monet's masters, Delacroix and Boudin, and by his fellow Impressionists -including a magnificent portrait of Monet himself at age 32 by his friend Auguste Renoir. But the bulk of the gift is Monet's Monets-a unique and stunningly complete core sample of 65 oils and four pastels spanning his growth as an artist from 1870 to the series of lily ponds which, over the last 29 years of his life, Monet produced...
...destroy my paintings before I disappear." Painters have often guessed wrong about their achievement; none guessed worse than Monet. He is, in fact, the only Impressionist other than Manet and Seurat whose work has consistently seemed relevant and useful to modern painters. One cannot imagine an artist "learning" from Renoir today. The difference is one of radical intent, of questions which Monet's work asked but did not always close, as most Renoirs are closed by their own unctuous completion...