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This charismatic exhibition celebrates revolutionary works by Monet, Degas, Morisot, Cézanne and more
Degas and Cézanne dominate a London exhibition of works that lifted the status of drawing and made it fundamental to their art
While contrasting, the two sculptors’ works share a timely grasp of humanity in this head-to-head display at Musée Rodin
...Her rebranding is timely, because this autumn, 140 years after his last visit, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is about to return to the island of Guernsey — in spirit, at least....
...Or perhaps it was felt that Poe’s sleuth Auguste Dupin — the progenitor of all the detectives that followed him — is known only to cognoscenti these days....
...By contrast coloured gemstones have faced the same threat from as far back as the 1890s, when French chemist Auguste Verneuil created a synthetic ruby....
...Chamberlain’s art alongside things Fischer conjectures he may have influenced or been influenced by: Jacob Epstein’s “The Rock Drill” (1913-15); Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies for a Crucifixion” (1962); Auguste...
...Another room recreates the living room of her home in rural Nohant, in the Berry region, (where you can visit her house), featuring her furniture and tapestries and a famous oil portrait of her by Auguste...
...As Dodin says in The Taste of Things, there are only 13 years between the death of Marie-Antoine Carême — the inventor of grande cuisine and the man behind the vol-au-vent — and the birth of Auguste Escoffier...
...“Pride” (1905), a naturalistic bust of a girl, was praised by Auguste Rodin, in whose studio Brâncuși spent a few months in 1907. Yet he left, because “Nothing grows in the shadow of a big tree.”...
...Violently opposed to replicating the past, when it comes to historical buildings Chatillon thinks along the same lines as Auguste Rodin who, concerned with the fate of the great gothic cathedrals of France...
...A 2012 exhibition at Pallant House Gallery and a 2022 book of imagined correspondence nurtured parallels between Paul and Gwen John, an artist often overshadowed by her brother Augustus and lover Auguste...
...Japanese person on the Forbes list comes in at number 30 In December 1989, just two weeks before the Nikkei peaked, Yasumichi Morishita spent $100mn on paintings by Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste...
...typical of Le Marais,” says Alexandre Gourevitch, who runs Discover Walks, a walking tour business, of the treatment meted out by schoolchildren to the section of city fortification built by King Philippe Auguste...
...The Rodin Project (2012) breathed life into the recurring figures in Auguste Rodin’s sculptures. For Vortex, the stimulus is the canvases and working practice of Jackson Pollock....
...Burrow speculates that it’s partly to do with the brigade system, famously promoted by the great French restaurateur Auguste Escoffier, which “brought military-inspired thinking into the kitchen” and led...
...Until March 25; further information and tickets here ‘Antony Gormley: Critical Mass’, Musée Rodin The British sculptor has described Auguste Rodin’s influence on his creative development as “a key source...
An exciting show at Bath’s Holburne Museum unites two very different artists in a quest for modern expressiveness
...Sensing this, one of David’s students, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, thought to oblige the emperor by creating for the Salon of 1806 a vast (8ft by 5ft) hieratic icon of Napoleon enthroned, positively clotted...
...One of the few women who managed to get beyond the status of muse or mistress in late 19th century Munich was the “fantastically” named Fanny Liane Wilhelmine Sophie Auguste Adrienne Gräfin zu Reventlow...
...“Padel is easy to learn and gets the adrenaline and endorphins pumping, which is why we see so many footballers and F1 drivers getting into the sport,” says Hernán Auguste, a former world number one padel...
...“Kitchens are well suited to war,” he said, citing the French chef Georges Auguste Escoffier, inventor of the military-style “brigade de cuisine” division of kitchen labour that was first used at the Ritz...
...I love the composition of the 1912 painting “Large Bright Shop Window” by the German expressionist Auguste Macke....
...Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s “Madame Moitessier” (1856) is a portrait of the most aggressively patterned, restless dress ever fixed on canvas. The fabric surges across half the picture....
...Auguste Rodin was an instructive exception: the sculptor was apparently kept in freezing conditions at his studio in Meudon because his long-suffering partner hoped it would suppress his undiscerning libido...
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