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...Wildest Beast. By contrast to Soutine. Vlaminck leaves no doubt of his initial debt to Van Gogh. Recalling the day he saw his first Van Gogh oils. Vlaminck says: "When I left that gallery, I loved Van Gogh more than my own father.'' Vlaminck, onetime bicycle racer, nightclub fiddler and casual Sunday painter, began turning out paintings in pure, clashing colors that made him, along with Matisse, one of the leaders of the fauve (wild beast) school, and as Derain said, "the wildest of the beasts...
...distinguished guests were hoisted onto the backs of newly painted elephants for a grand parade through the city. Britain's aristocratic Earl of Scarbrough and one of Red China's Vice Premiers, Ulanfu, who shared a howdah, smiled wanly at the cheering crowds as their huge beast heaved and rolled along the line of march. Behind them an elephantload of Indian maharajas grinned as happily as college boys joy riding...
...generously over 500 years of art, from Hans Memling's Annunciation, El Greco's Christ Bearing Cross and Rembrandt's Gèrard de Lairesse, all owned by Manhat tan Financier Robert Lehman ('13), to such high-velocity moderns as Jackson Pollock's Wounded Beast, 1943, owned by lectors' Art taste Critic is most Thomas B. accurately Hess ('42). reflected by But the current heavy U.S. corncetration in 19th and 20th century European masters. Top favorite: Picasso (seven paintings), followed by Degas, Braque, Cèzanne, Delacroix, Renoir, Van Gogh and Goya (five...
...this picture is the power of the nightmare. The spectator is locked in the sinister bunker like Germany in its obsession, and the end is less an exit than a cure. Actor Skoda, for all the impacted passion of his playing, never really gets the number of the beast, but he manages to suggest both paranoia and genius, and he expounds the lesson of Nazi Germany as shockingly sometimes as if he had borne the head of the dictator through the theater on a pole...
...Beauty and the Beast" is a story about a hairy Havana high school senior who doesn't fit into the group, goes to bed with a prostitute, and finds that the socially acceptable fairy queen of the high school is neither off-beat nor a prostitute. The author, Robert Grindell, is another smooth writer, but his plot lacks both unity and message. He handles sex well, but his characters are not up to the experience, shadowy sketches whom he seems only to have met, never to have known. The hero's hairiness is, like much of the characterization, inadequate...