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Article: ETERNAL SPRING WITH THEIR FOCUS ON NATURE, CEZANNE AND PISSARRO OPENED OUR EYES IN 20 REVOLUTIONARY YEARS.(U)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- November 3, 2005
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Byline: Steven Rosen Correspondent
Among other elements, ``Cezanne & Pissarro: Pioneering Modern Painting 1865-1885'' can lay claim to being the greenest art exhibition in town.
In gallery after gallery at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, landscapes by the crucial French Impressionists/post-Impressionists Paul Cezanne and Camille Pissarro are shown side by side: the forests, farmlands, villages and hillsides of rural France.
In rejecting the conservative subject matter of the traditionalist, formally trained painters of the day, the two artists made landscape the subject of their work rather than background for a history painting or religious ...