Word: vuillards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What a life Misia Sert lived! Fauré gave her piano lessons. Ravel dedicated La Valse to her. Stravinsky presented her with the score of Le Sucre du Printemps. Diaghilev made her his ally; she was the only woman with whom he could feel intimate. Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard, Renoir, Vallotton painted her, sometimes obsessively. Cocteau modeled the heroine of his novel Thomas l'lmposteur on her. In the masterly hands of Proust she became two people, Princess Yourbeletieff, the young sponsor of the Ballets Russes: "One might have supposed that this marvelous creature had been imported in their...
...virtues of the professional duo pianists' timing and technique, but they never take their subject with full scholarly weight. Instead, they have produced an alluring (any sense of the word will do) portrait of how creative people live, how the social world of the arts functions. Creating Vuillard-like interiors that Vuillard could not wait to paint, making a cult of Bernhardt, sailing on a pilgrimage to Norway to meet Ibsen - through myriad details a creative world comes alive...
...little Talisman of 1888, for instance, with its plain flat patches of color that demonstrated so vividly to Denis and Bonnard that art should not be mere representation, but rather "a transposition, a caricature, the passionate equivalent of an experienced sensation"; or the 1890 self-portrait by Edouard Vuillard, done in brilliant polemical slabs of nonnaturalist color. But it is to the great paintings at the center of the exhibition that one returns, those hinges upon which art swung from the 19th century into the 20th, disclosing a new amplitude of color and form as it turned. Rarely does...