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How Claude Monet’s reluctant sojourn reignited his career Original

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By Robert Taylor
| The Mercury News Verified
“Monet and Venice” is the third San Francisco exhibit of Claude Monet’s paintings in less than 10 years, following “Monet: the Early Years” and “Monet: the Late Years” at the Legion of Honor and de Young museums. Granted, the enduring popularity of Impressionism stems from a single one of Monet’s paintings displayed in Paris in 1872, but what more is there to say? What to see?
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How 2 legendary impressionist painters have a chat at SF museum Original

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By Robert Taylor
| The Mercury News Verified
Last fall, San Francisco’s Legion of Honor museum presented a splendid retrospective of Cassatt’s work, touching on Degas’ influence on the American artist making her name in Paris. This fall, the Legion follows up, and doubles up, with “Manet & Morisot,” detailing the extensive artistic exchange between the two of them from the 1860s to the 1880s at a turning point in European painting.
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Massive new SF exhibit explores Ruth Asawa’s ‘ordinary’ brilliance Original

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By Robert Taylor
| The Mercury News Verified
But on the first wall of the first gallery, Asawa’s own words bring it all down to earth: “An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.” That’s the best introduction, and step-by-step guide, to an almost overwhelming array of artwork by Asawa, who spent much of her adult life in San Francisco. This untiled work by Ruth Asawa is among her many hanging wire sculptures on display at SFMOMA.
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