Promenades of an Impressionist
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By James Huneker 11 Feb, 2020
After prolonged study of the art shown at the Paris Autumn Salon, you ask yourself: This whirlpool of jostling ambitions, crazy colours, still crazier drawing, and composition—whither does it tend? Is there any strain of tendency, any central curre ... Read more
After prolonged study of the art shown at the Paris Autumn Salon, you ask yourself: This whirlpool of jostling ambitions, crazy colours, still crazier drawing, and composition—whither does it tend? Is there any strain of tendency, any central current to be detected? Is it young genius in the raw, awaiting the sunshine of success to ripen its somewhat terrifying gifts? Or is the exhibition a huge, mystifying blague? What, you ask, as you apply wet compresses to your weary eyeballs, blistered by dangerous proximity to so many blazing canvases, does the Autumn Salon mean to French art? Less
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James Gibbons Huneker (January 31, 1857 – February 9, 1921) was an American art, book, music, and theater critic. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a great miss...
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