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Last week a Ministerial decree announced the imminent transfer of the Luxembourg collection of Impressionist & Post-Impressionist art to the Louvre. For all of the painters the honor was posthumous.* Their long, tempestuous trial at the Luxembourg outlasted their lives. They had tried to paint what they perceived as current realities. Often they were frustrated, tortured in the patient attempts to convey the actualities of their vision. But they believed in an art stimulated by the living, not the dead. For this they were excoriated by a host of pompous academicians, who applauded apes of the classical tradition...
Thus last week's decree was a major triumph for vitality as opposed to senescence. For although Impressionist painting is included in private collections at the Louvre it has never been received in great quantities...
...study the law. The son wanted to study art. He studied both simultaneously and never practiced law. His first paintings were realistic and ordinary, yet showed that flashy brilliance that many Russians have when they are young and conceited. He spent a year in Paris and turned impressionist. Fantastic flat decorations are his forte and peculiarity. In this manner he has tried to picture Russia's and Asia's past. His pieces number about 3,000. Several hundred are in the Roerich Museum in Manhattan. They are wierd, mystical, fascinating...
...inevitable indirection of actual life. The versatility and incessant activity of Tietjen's mind-he is a mathematician, linguist and poet as well as a husband, lover, officer, sociologist and human being -do not contribute immediate lucidity to events which the reader must follow subjectively, by the impressionist method. A crucial telephone talk may last several chapters, the words actually spoken falling pages apart while numerous causes, consequences and chunks of mental and emotional background are tracked down in hurried asides. Yet such episodes, and much apparently meaningless detail-such as a sonnet composed on a challenge...
...London, Paris, Berlin, in Italy, Russia, Scandinavia, in the Low Countries, in Chicago and New York and Cleveland--but not in Boston. One must actually travel to Worcester to see paintings by Gauguin and Redon. In Boston, the development of 19th Century painting is half-heartedly illustrated through the Impressionist period. But after that we find only such fashionable virtuosos as Zuloaga and Sargent. Scripture after Rodin is almost equally neglected...