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...drab little studio above a plasterer's shop, taking his paintings very seriously, lavishing the utmost care on each geometrically exact landscape. When he started sending his pictures each year to the Salon des Independants to be hung alongside the works of painters like Redon (TIME, Aug. 25), Seurat and Signac, critics and fellow artists suppressed smiles...
Satie: Gymnopédie Nos. I & 2. (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting: Victor). French musical impressionism had three inventors: Claude Debussy, Erik Satie and Ernest Fanelli. Today only Debussy is remembered as a front ranker. But these two little pieces, orchestrated by Debussy, are as deft and fresh as Seurat water colors...
...Wotherspoon, president of the Daytona Beach branch of the National League of American Penwomen. At the end of the book are appended, without any explanation, 98 pictures, starting with prehistoric rock carvings, showing 29 Logan prizewinners plus other canvases of mediocre representational cast, plus still more by Cezanne, Seurat, van Gogh, Gauguin, Salvador Dali...
...were 138 fairly large canvases and water colors by twelve artists in which there appeared, in brilliant color, circles, triangles, prisms, ruled lines, odd squiggles and amorphous blobs of paint. There were in addition 60 paintings by near abstractionists such as Modigliani, Picasso, Marc Chagall and the Impressionist Seurat, in which could be discovered such recognizable objects as cats, boats, bowls of fruit, doorways and French peasant women...
...group, writing to dealers, arranging shows, patching quarrels. As anyone walking round last week's exhibition could see, Impressionist Pissarro liked his friends' painting almost too well. He painted sometimes like Millet, sometimes like Cezanne, sometimes like Sisley, sometimes like Mary Cassatt. When his friend Seurat invented a technique of painting with tiny blobs of pure color, Camille Pissarro tried that too. In that manner is possibly the most effective canvas in last week's exhibition-the Dieppe railway train disappearing into a green forest beyond a yellow corn field...