A promise of happiness--origins of Impressionism.
Reviews the exhibition `Origins of Impressionism' mounted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the French National Museums. Large selection of paintings from the salon of 1859; New sensibility in the second gallery; Individuality in approach to nude painting; Claude Monet's seascapes and marine pai...
| Published in: | America Magazine: The Jesuit Review of Faith & Culture Vol. 171; no. 17; pp. 16 - 20 |
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| Format: | Art Exhibition Review |
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America Media
11/26/1994
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| Summary: | Reviews the exhibition `Origins of Impressionism' mounted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the French National Museums. Large selection of paintings from the salon of 1859; New sensibility in the second gallery; Individuality in approach to nude painting; Claude Monet's seascapes and marine paintings; Still lifes; Monet's quotation on beauty as a promise of happiness. |
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