BOOK REVIEW | Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
Skilfully assimilating secondary sources throughout Paris in Ruins, Smee at the conclusion of Part One, “Salon of 1869,” writes that Auguste Renoir’s and Claude Monet’s 1869 paintings of La Grenouillère, a popular rowing and bathing resort on the Island of Croissy at Bougival, in effect “invented Impressionism.” Painted in plein air with” short, staccato strokes, […]
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REVIEW: Thomas Demand: The Object Lesson
Kaldor Public Art Project 38 is in the Naala Badu building (the term for “seeing waters” in the Gadigal language). Demand, as it happens, has an indirect affiliation with Naala Badu. Over the years, he conducted research visits to Tokyo at SANAA, the distinguished architectural firm led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, responsible for […]
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REVIEW: French Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Divided into ten thematic sections, the curatorial brief (according to the NGV’s online publicity) is to place “emphasis on the thoughts and observations of the artists themselves.” And, to this effect, texts proliferate but do not dominate. But French Impressionism does not need to take recourse to artists’ intentions. The works, dare I say it, […]
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