The word emporium has appeared in 45 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 10 in “How the Impressionists Became the World’s Favorite Painters, and the Most Misunderstood” by Jason Farago:
Look at picture No. 107 in the exhibition of 1874: another of Morisot’s lugubrious bourgeois bachelorettes.
Her model is on vacation in Brittany, easily reached from Paris on a new railway line. She carries fashionable accessories, bought in a new retail emporium. The day is calm. The weather is fair.
But her dress is an open tangle of white, as opaque as the brushy harbor, and between her black hat and violet choker is a face dissolving into vapor. No gatekeepers remain to decree how to picture her. Art, from 1874 onward, means freedom: so sad, so beautiful.
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