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...TRIBE OF WOMEN (248 pp.)-Herveé Bazin-Simon & Schuster...
Seurat went about his mission with a thoroughness that Louvre Curator Germain Bazin compares only to Leonardo da Vinci's own scientific preparations. To ready his first painted manifesto, La Grande Jatte, Seurat went daily for six months to the island to sketch and make quick color studies, worked for months in his studio making life studies of the 40 figures he intended to place in his finished canvas. Only after two arduous years did Seurat, then 26, finish the work-thousands of minute dots of paint, some three layers in depth, on a canvas measuring nearly...
Contentment with Little. Such paintings as the Annunciation, endlessly copied, made Fra Angelico's reputation. They established the figure of the angel in the form that still seems most appropriate for religious art, and even today the Annunciation is rated by former Louvre Curator Germain Bazin as "no doubt the most perfect of all Fra Angelico's works." Fra Angelico found himself besieged with requests as his style became more widely known and admired. Contemporary accounts describe his reaction-he simply referred his patrons to the prior of his monastery, saying for himself: "True riches consist in being...
There are eight "great themes" for westerns, according to Critics Jean-Louis Rieupeyrout and Andre Bazin. whose book, Le Western, ou le Cinema Americain par Excellence, is the most exhaustive of the new studies. The big themes (based on a study of 150 westerns): 1) the birth of a nation, 2) gold prospecting, 3) the frontier and the great plains, 4) the linking of east and west, 5) men and beasts, 6) the War of Secession, 7) Indian warfare, 8) representative westerners...
Social Document. Writes Critic Bazin: "The Corneilleian simplicity of the western scenario has often been parodied. It is true that it is easy to detect an analogy to Le Cid: same conflict between love and duty, same knightly deeds, resulting in the virgin consenting to forget the insults to her family . . . But this comparison is ambiguous: to mock westerns by evoking Corneille is also to point out their grandeur, a grandeur perhaps close to puerility, even as childhood is close to poetry . . . Everyone, children and simple men, recognizes the naive grandeur of western movies. Epic and tragic heroes are universal...