Word: impressionist
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...Davidson returned from France still an impressionist, but revealing a keener conception of form, an uncanny power for loveliness. His exhibition at the Fearon Gallery was an event of great consequence...
...esthetic gods of yester-year go fast. Rodin (died 1921) was only a sentimental impressionist in sculpture, according to the critics of insurgence. The great names of today were unknown a decade ago. The post-impressionist sculptors who have received the critical accolade ? men whose work would be incomprehensible to a Canova or a Thorwaldsen ? are Aristide Maillol, whom Clive Bell, English oracle of modernism, Sheldon Cheney and many others consider the greatest sculptor alive; Bourdelle and Gaudier, other Frenchmen; Jacob Epstein (an American, by the way) and Eric Gill, an Englishman; Grancusi, Bohemian carver of geometrical solids...
Paris has been deeply shocked by a report of the circumstances of the death of the great Impressionist sculptor, Auguste Rodin...
...French government, having heard that the Impressionist Manet's famous painting, Le Bon Bock, was in Paris en route to America, planned to put an embargo on it, but found the law did not apply-since the painting was acquired in Germany. It represents with sympathetic warmth a gentleman, a cafe table, a glass of beer. It will be exhibited shortly in New York...
Every aesthetic possibility of these seeming-fragile structures, these English cathedrals, Mr. Conant has realized and rendered with short, firm staccato pencil strokes. All the training of the professional architect is behind him, and that implies a solidity of handling unknown to the disintegrated impressionist schools. (Nothing could be more different, for instance, than three etchings of Venetian Palazzi by Whistler, which hang on one of the other walls of the room.) One notes too a technical advance over the Spanish drawings, a greater range of values, in particular a greater use of black...