Little Richard: I Am Everything

Biography of the architect of rock & roll is built on shaky foundations

"...a standard modern rock bio doc and post-Moonage Daydream impressionism, with a certain visual flair that, sadly, cannot match..."

April 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Fueling the Algorithm and Finding Community: Music Creators Thrive on Twitch, TikTok, and Instagram

On discoverable platforms, Austin musicians experience encouragement, engagement, and unexpected viral moments

"...a mesmerizing flurry of math rock precision and folk impressionism, is meant for up-close viewing. Known locally as bandleader..."

Nov. 26, 2021 Music Feature by Rachel Rascoe

"Beyond Van Gogh" Is a Three-Dimensional Perspective With a One-Dimensional Outlook

Touring immersive exhibition continues at Circuit of Americas through Sept. 5

Aug. 20, 2021 Arts Feature by Cody Song

Writers on Chronicle Music Editor Raoul Hernandez as He Leaves His Post

The retiring editor left deep imprints on all who wrote for him

"...all-night mad dash to finish a paper on French Impressionism (sorry, boss!). Already a senior at UT, I didn't..."

July 23, 2021 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Festival Flood

A brief guide to the 13 – count 'em, 13 – arts fests coming your way in April and May

"...program of two-piano works, a program linking Debussy and impressionism, and opening and closing galas...."

April 3, 2015 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Mr. Turner

Mike Leigh delivers a fascinating, period-rich portrait of the latter years of the painter J.M.W. Turner.

"...(1775-1851) but are now generally recognized as precursors of Impressionism and even Abstract Expressionism...."

Jan. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Song in His Heart

'The Essential Jacques Demy' anthologizes the French New Wave's chief romantic

"...cinematic renaissance that today parallels another national pop-art trademark, Impressionism. In European black-and-white alternately searing and crème puff, Demy's..."

Aug. 15, 2014 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

'Corsicana Lemonade' Record Review

"...interplay powers Corsicana Lemonade as much as Petralli's slipstream impressionism – just check the title track's Texas road map...."

Oct. 11, 2013 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Overseas

"..."Ghost to Be" floats an incredible work of cryptic impressionism in the mold of Bedhead's slo-core classic WhatFunLifeWas. (Overseas..."

June 28, 2013 Music Review by Austin Powell

Great World of Sound

David Wingo's success scoring film fuels his band Ola Podrida

"...turned inward – marks an altogether different beauty. Lyrical impressionism caught in the quiet hum of the singer's voice..."

May 24, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

'Sonya Berg'

In her show at Tiny Park Gallery, Berg's painted-over photographic collages vividly, beautifully, redefine art

"...cabin, say, suddenly blossoms a section more redolent of impressionism than of modern image-capture. It's hard to tell, sometimes...."

March 29, 2013 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Kingdom of Suicide Lovers

"...equal parts. Kingdom of Suicide Lovers combines sizzling post-punk impressionism with breathy, boy/girl vocal interplay in a manner finding..."

Sept. 21, 2012 Music Review by Greg Beets

There's Peter, Never Mind the Wolf

The Golden Hornet Project turns Prokofiev

"...over the place," he says, "from ethereal and dreamlike impressionism, to playful bouncing, to driving intense rhythms. They're some..."

Jan. 19, 2012 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Wild Beasts'

Five artists massage your corneas with vivid colors and Fauvist style

"...color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism." (Think Henri Matisse.)..."

Sept. 23, 2011 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Turner to Monet: Masterpieces From the Walters Art Museum'

These 40 works impressively chart the evolution of art across the 19th century

"...classical tradition into the indistinct, extravagantly hued experimentations of impressionism. For many, that progression proved unsettling...."

Dec. 17, 2010 Arts Review by Robert Faires

The Art of the Steal

This documentary looks at the quandary faced in Philadelphia about moving the Barnes Foundation, home to a premier Postimpressionist collection.

"...of Philadelphia resident Albert Barnes, who caught on to Post-Impressionism long before the general public, or even the art..."

April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Gig Posters, Vol. 1: Rock Show Art of the 21st Century

GigPosters.com comes to print

"...Eastern bloc existentialism of Jay Ryan, and Mat Daly's impressionism. And of course the ladies – Diana Sudyka's natural..."

July 17, 2009 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

I Write the Folk Songs

From 1980s MTV Robert Plant look-alike to New Age icon, Marshall Styler knows his way around an eBay melody

"...Impressionism isn't the first thing you think of when seeing..."

July 3, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

SXSW 09 Picks 2 Click

Neoclassical instrumentalists venture into the wild

"...Silent, serves as a backdrop to the band's instrumental impressionism. Deeply cinematic in its scope, the local sextet bridges..."

March 13, 2009 Music Feature by Austin Powell

Page Two: Tiny Tornadoes

SXSW time allows us to go soaring off fearlessly into our imaginations

"...bring order to chaos, chronology to a daft personal impressionism...."

Feb. 20, 2009 Column by Louis Black

Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now

AMOA's dual exhibit of art made a century apart shows some things never change

"...although it's harder to see in their works; since impressionism has become visual comfort food, we've lost our taste..."

Oct. 17, 2008 Arts Review by Robert Faires

A Glass-Half-Full Kinda Gal

Happy-Go-Lucky

"...who, without his knowing it, was the father of impressionism. But I've made 18 full-length films, and nobody's interfered..."

Oct. 10, 2008 Screens Feature by Kevin Kelly

The Black Angels Reviewed

"...notches another kill with extreme prejudice. Doors slamming lyrical impressionism ("Feel it, in your house. ... Steal it, while..."

May 9, 2008 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Greg Bolin: Non-Austin Austin Composer

The score on rescoring Porgy and Bess

"...had a love child named Stephen Sondheim?" So, French impressionism, American minimalism, and the most sophisticated of recent Broadway..."

Jan. 25, 2008 Arts Feature by Graham Reynolds

Labor Intensive

John Fiege on 'Mississippi Chicken' and Anne Lewis on 'Morristown'

"...precise observation is immersive without floating off into arty impressionism. It's a feeling Fiege's collaborators are quick to credit..."

Oct. 5, 2007 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Zoo

Filmmaker Robinson Devor sadly sabotages his own attempt to bring the practice of bestiality into the light.

"...approach: He has overlaid the film with a lyrical impressionism that drains Zoo of any possibility to titillate. While..."

May 25, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lu Ann Barrow's Soul-Journers: Friends, Family, and the Fabric of Daily Life

In Lu Ann Barrow's brilliantly colored canvases, every pebble, blade of grass, dress, and wallpaper pattern is rendered in bold colors that excite rather than drown one another out

"...gone through, in the mind of their maker, abstraction, impressionism, and, as her graduate work at the University of..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Arts Review by Nikki Moore

Fires Were Shot

Texas platters

"...by two-to-four-minute soulscapes, each a different-hued brushstroke of contemplative impressionism. Cuts like "Eierie" and "Hollow" feature expertly subdued cosmic..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Music Review by Michael Chamy

The Austin Contingent

"...of developing tonal music, then washing it out with impressionism, subverting it with atonal music, and finally systematizing an..."

June 4, 2004 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Cass McCombs

"..."I Went to the Hospital," with its laughing gas impressionism, could be about dying, breaking up, or just visiting..."

March 12, 2004 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

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