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Amy Lincoln & Rousseau

Thoughts on connections between the paintings of Amy Lincoln and works by Henri Rousseau: "There are some striking formal parallels between [Lincoln's] and Rousseau’s work. The luscious plants bursting with color (Lincoln’s mor…

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George Hendrick Breitner’s Snapshots

Leslie Anderson blogs about the paintings of George Hendrick Breitner (1857-1923), whose works are included in the exhibition Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard, on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art through September 2, 2012…

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Visions of Arcadia

Andrea Kirsh reviews the exhibition Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on view through September 3, 2012. Kirsh writes: "In terms of the exhibition's theme one has to ask, why this subje…

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Dr. Barnes’ Art of Painting

On the occasion of the opening of the new Barnes Foundation musuem in Philadelphia, Jed Perl re-reads The Art of Painting and The Art of Renoir by Dr. Albert C. Barnes. Both books, Perl writes "have a blunt, evangelical force; they’re te…

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Cézanne’s Bathers: Built to Disturb

Jack Flam discusses the implications of Cézanne's "de-eroticized" approach to the figure in The Large Bathers (1906), part of the upcoming exhibition Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse: Visions of Arcadia at the Philadelphia Museum…

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Post Impressionist Picture Theory

Emily Nathan reviews the exhibition Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard, on view at the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. through May 6, 2012. Nathan writes: "while the two mediums have their parallels — Bonnard's …

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Cézanne and the Modern City

Nicola Homer reviews the exhibtion Cézanne in Paris at the Musée du Luxembourg, on view through February 26, 2012. Homer writes that "The show takes as its starting point the year in which the 21-year-old Cézanne arrived i…

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Van Gogh’s All-Over Fields

Andrea Kirsh reviews the exhibition Van Gogh Up Close at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on view through May 6, 2012. Kirsch writes that a few of the paintings "rather startlingly, have no discernible focal point. They are the sort of all-over…

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Van Gogh’s Close Up

Bob Duggan previews the exhibition Van Gogh: Up Close at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on view through May 6, 2012. Duggan writes that "The mad, sad, and dangerous to know Vincent seen through the telephoto lens of legend gives way here to a…

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