Word: chevreul
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fascinated by the color theories of the French chemist, Michel Eugène Chevreul, La Farge searched along the same lines that the impressionists were to follow. He wrote: "I wished to apply principles of light and color of which I had learned a little. I wished my studies of nature to indicate very carefully, in every part, the exact time of day and circumstance of light." It was the same route that Monet, slightly his junior in age, was to follow to perfection. In practice, La Farge is more similar to that French loner, Puvis de Chavannes, who also...