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...life has been nothing but a failure, and all that's left for me to do is to 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...
...Folklore. Vasarely's debt to'Mondrian, Malevich and Seurat is apparent and acknowledged. But what Vasarely did was to build on the somewhat dry ideas of the Bauhaus and suffuse them with new life-the life of shifting perspectives, vibrant color harmonies and weighted geometric shapes. The deep, rich tonalities of such paintings as Chom and Axo-77, for which he often credits Hungarian folklore, are designed to give the viewer a sense of balance and wellbeing. In other works, like Ond-JG, the illusion of bulging forms acts as a magnetic force pulling the viewer into...
...exhibition of 1901. In addition, portraits such as L'Enfant Madeline betray a vestigial debt to Renoir's child portraits, while the pointillistic detail and balanced composition of Vue de Chatou suggest more than a few hours spent in the galleries studying the neo-impressionist work of Seurat and Signac...
Because of the large number of paintings in the exhibition, some limitation of focus is helpful in their evaluation. One approach is to concentrate on the Blocks' very rich collection of portraits, including Degas' distant "Young Man with a Hat," Seurat's study for a "Woman Powdering Herself," the famous Matisse "The Young Sailor" (version two) and the even better-known van Gogh "Self-Portrait," showing his bandaged ear. In addition, there are three sensitive Vuillards, one a "Portrait of the Artist's Mother" in a style set between the thick modelling of Manet and the pointillist inheritance of Impressionism...
...foreshadows the pointillism of La Grande Jatte. Gustave Caillebotte's huge (7 ft. by 9 ft.), damply breathtaking Place de I'Europe on a Rainy Day sheds light from a different angle; the wealthy Parisian civil engineer, dealing with a similar promenade scene only seven years before Seurat, builds his woman's figure with much the same solidity, but he toys with reflected light on umbrellas, cobblestones and in the boulevards more realistically than did the later impressionists. Last week the museum unveiled a Rubens Holy Family, depicting Jesus and Mary with Joseph, the infant St. John...