Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some of the bleeding-heart au courant might say that this extraordinarily harsh, the Tanner is a new artist with promise. Tanner's actual promise seems more in the line of a director of television documentaries a comment which is not meant to be entirely demeaning...
Last Testament. That Braque was the greatest formal artist of the 20th century is hardly in doubt; nor have many painters since Piero della Francesca displayed such a perfect command over a complex pictorial structure. But in the process he made some of the most mysterious images in modern art: the series of studio interiors, with a white bird flying across them, that preoccupied him in the early 1950s and were his last testament. Their culmination was The Studio VIII...
James Dickey wrote his book from the viewpoint of Ed Gentry, a middleaged commercial artist cognizant of his own limitations, living a comfortable life in suburbia with a wife and some but occasionally moved to greater passion than the bounds of his society normally permit His friend Lewis Medlock, is a wealthy landlord (by inheritance and physical-conditioning freak who compensates for the colorlessness of his contemporary existence by making frequent sojourns into nature. Gentry sometimes accompanies him. And the plot of Deliverance centers on one such trip...
...least, a stale tale of vengeance dedicated to Hitchcock Friday. Red Desert, middle period Antomennui Sarris's phrase) with beautiful color is paired with Juliet of the Spirits Felinis unsuccessful attempt to do for a frustrated house wife what 8 1/2 did for a castrated male artist leading as well into the garish technique of his. Satyricon phantasmagoria which plays Saturday doubled thank God. With one of the all time greats. Bergman's Passion of Anna the culmination of two decades of cinematic experiment, psychological examination and religious questioning. The only people who don't admire it are certain radical...
...striking. Charles, the elderly owner of a consistently expanding watchmaking firm, finds himself suddenly filled with revulsion at his lifelong impulse to prosperity and bourgeois respectability. Much to the dismay of his still business-minded son, he disappears from home and takes up secluded residence with a bohemian artist, the artists wife and Charles's own daughter. Father and daughter take up the political education of their hosts, until Son finally catches up with Father, and Charles is taken off to a mental hospital...