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...understand the Renoir of "Renoir in the 20th Century," which runs in Los Angeles through May 9 then moves to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, you have to remember that before he became a semiclassicist, he was a consummate Impressionist. You need to picture him in 1874, 33 years old, painting side by side with Monet in Argenteuil, teasing out the new possibilities of sketchy brushwork to capture fleeting light as it fell across people and things in an indisputably modern world...
...does now. It both charmed and unnerved them. It brought to painting a novel immediacy, but it also gave back a world that felt weightless and unstable. What we now call post-Impressionism was the inevitable by-product of that anxiety. Artists like Seurat and Gauguin searched for an art that owed nothing to the stale models of academicism but possessed the substance and authority that Impressionism had let fall away...
...turning point came during his honeymoon to Rome and Naples in 1881. Face to face with the firm outlines of Raphael and the musculature of Michelangelo, he lost faith in his flickering sunbeams. He returned to France determined to find his way to lucid, distinct forms in an art that reached for the eternal, not the momentary. By the later years of that decade, Renoir had lost his taste for the modern world anyway. As for modern women, in 1888 he could write, "I consider that women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters." ("The woman...
Bigelow was raised in Northern California. Her father managed a paint factory, and her mother was a librarian. Bigelow began painting at an early age; she enrolled as a college student at the San Francisco Art Institute and during her second year was accepted at the Whitney Museum of American Art's independent-study program. In 1971, at age 19, she set off for New York City...
...thought she'd be a professor of art history, until she took a detour into film: "I realized that the great opportunity in film was that it was kind of a populist medium that could cross all class and cultural lines." She made The Loveless (1982) - hailed as "the thinking man's biker movie" - then went to Los Angeles to teach a course on B filmmakers of the '40s and '50s. She's been bending genres in Hollywood ever since. (See the best movies of the decade...