Slog - Comments on Impressionist Fact of the Day http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/impressionist_fact_of_the_day_1 Let's stick with Bazille, the friend Monet should be more grateful for. He's unfortunate again, this time with the ladies. At least the dancers seem to warm up to him. Bazille's mother attempted to capitalise on all the social celebrations by putting her son in touch with a young lady, up from Montpellier for the Exposition. But the introduction was not a success. 'If I were a few years younger and had a few more hairs on my head ... ' he ruefully explained (he was twenty-seven). He had made a far more diverting discovery: the wings of the Opéra.... Copyright 2008 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:00:00 -0800 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:34:19 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by max solomon he sounds sad.

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/impressionist_fact_of_the_day_1#c1059098 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/impressionist_fact_of_the_day_1#c1059098 Visual Art Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:42:28 -0800 Comment by Suzi Jen,
Once again you inspire me. However, the UO's museum (Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art) is opening a show called "Faster, High, Farther: The Spirit of Track-and-Field Sports," and I don't think there's a single book or piece of information about running or javelin-ing that I want to convey to the overwhelmed-with-Olympic-Trials-trivia Eugene public. But if you know of any good sporty art history books, I guess I could give it a try. (And when the J-Schnitz's "Cuba Avant-Garde" hits the boards, watch out for the Revolutionary Fact of the Day.) OTOH, I suspect that only the Impressionists (and perhaps the Abstract Expressionists?) can inspire the kind of obsessive/devoted lit you're quoting. Oh, and Michelangelo, of course.
But anyway, thanks. Fun and interesting.

]]> Suzi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/impressionist_fact_of_the_day_1#c1059101 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/impressionist_fact_of_the_day_1#c1059101 Visual Art Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:46:42 -0800 Comment by Hartiepie Jen--- I am not clear on why you said "here is his 'objective' view..."

Why use the word 'objective'? Did Bazille claim objectivity of some type in his art?

I don't really know anything about him, so what's up?

]]> Hartiepie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/impressionist_fact_of_the_day_1#c1059148 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/impressionist_fact_of_the_day_1#c1059148 Visual Art Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:31:37 -0800 Comment by Jen Graves @3: It's from the excerpt:

‘Don’t worry,’ he assured his mother. ‘I bring to it all the necessary objectivity, don’t be alarmed.’

]]> Jen Graves http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/impressionist_fact_of_the_day_1#c1059225 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/06/impressionist_fact_of_the_day_1#c1059225 Visual Art Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:34:19 -0800