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...A virtuoso Impressionist rendering of atmosphere — the critic Gustave Geffroy said Morisot fixed “the play of colours, the quivering between things and the air that envelops them” — it is also a statement...
...Upstairs, an exhibition space includes creations by Belgian architects such as Horta, but also Henry Van De Velde, Paul Hankar and Gustave Serrurier-Bovy....
...In some places, it’s bursting out from behind the paint, leaving brown streaks down the metal beams. In others, the paint has fallen off completely, exposing the bare metal....
...Initial visual influences were also Ras Daniel Heartman’s LP covers — “figures with dreadlocks, an inspiration, always there” — and a Birmingham church hall exhibition by black teacher Gilroy Brown....
...In 1896 Matisse, then studying with symbolist Gustave Moreau and still restricting himself to earthy browns and clay greens, visited Belle Île and discovered Russell painting his own flamboyant “Aiguille...
...And then I realised I was brown.” When our waitress arrives, I order a white wine while Albutairi sticks to sparkling water. A second server delivers a basket of bread and butter....
...Still, the reflected light from the water — no longer dirty and full of small brown fish — dappled the walls, the boat swayed a little and we lay happily on the bed and read....
...Massimo de Carlo, with a solo show of fleshy portraits by Gelitin, the Austrian artist collective, made a number of sales in the US$16,000 to $50,000 range, while on the upper level, among Ben Brown’s sales...
...There is also a child mannequin that was hired by both Ford Madox Brown and John Everett Millais....
...In this way, Bellany looked not only to the Old Masters but to the modern Realists such as Gustave Courbet who, against the prevailing trend for history painting, depicted the harshness of life for the rural...
...A preponderance of cold whites and greens, browns, black and grey testify to the influence of Manet, whom she met in 1868 and one of whose favourite models she would become....
...– he achieves a naturalism that predates the 19th-century Barbizon school, while his passion for local life makes him an ancestor to Gustave Courbet....
...Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation, by Gordon Brown, Simon & Schuster RRP£20 Brown’s book, to be published on December 6, is characteristically less personal and more cerebral...
...The Paraguayan embassy, for example, is located in the remains of a house designed by Gustave Eiffel, creator of the eponymous tower....
...Jules Verne, Tour Eiffel, Avenue Gustave Eiffel, Paris 75007, tel: +33 (0)1-45 55 61 44; www.restaurants-toureiffel.com...
...Dashes of green, red and brown paint depict leaves strewn across the forest floor, revealing the artist’s interest in the pointillist style of Paul Signac....
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