Word: monetize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some "high" artists raided "low" (popular and mass) culture for their own purposes. Not all of them, needless to say, did. You won't find the visual argot of advertising, news photography, graffiti or comic strips in the work of the great Apollonians of the past hundred years, from Monet and Matisse to Richard Diebenkorn. But this vernacular, Gopnik and Varnedoe rightly argue, is essential to a grasp of Cubism, Dada, Russian Constructivism, Surrealism and their European offshoots, along with a great deal of American art produced after...
...Monet, Rembrandt, Renoir and other greats of the Western artistic tradition leave your soul unfulfilled, walk down Quincy Street to the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard's newest museum, which houses Islamic, Asian and ancient...
...little Rembrandt self-portrait etching, nothing in the haul could be resold on the open market, or even in its shadow line. With the Vermeer, resale is all but inconceivable, although famous stolen paintings do sometimes get sold: the very picture that named the Impressionist movement, Claude Monet's Impression: Rising Sun, was stolen from the Marmottan Museum in Paris by armed robbers in 1985 and is believed to be in Japan...
...Monet's power to evoke substance through paint was as strong as Rembrandt's. The next 100 years would be full of art about art, but one may doubt whether any of it quite equaled the level of intelligence and passion -- both seizing the motif and respectfully deferring to it -- that is figured forth in Monet's Cathedrals...
...With Monet's later paintings, ripeness...