Word: bonheur
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...number of Goyas, the new spaces allow a full sampling of the sentimental and pretentious salon art that the century's avant-garde had to contend againstCabanel's sleekly erotic nudes, Meissonier's bombastic battle scenes, Regnault's slyly erotic-exotic Salome, Rosa Bonheur's huge Horse Fair, Bastien-Lepage's sentimentalized Joan of Arc. Of the 22 Courbets, only 8 had been on view in the past; of the 18 Manets, 10; of the 29 Monets, 12. Many of the Met's 40-odd Rodins had not been seen...
Fashion, in other words, is taken not to exist. But the unpleasant fact is that no reputation is immune to fashion. The art market is built on it. The French cattle painter Rosa Bonheur, a favorite of Victorian merchant princes, got ? 4,059 (then almost $20,000) for her Highland Raid in 1887; in 1952 it was resold for under ?200, or $560. Sir Edward Burne-Jones' Love and the Pilgrim, sold in 1898 for .?5,775 ($28,000), dropped to ?21 ($85) within less than 50 years. If artists who in their day were considered outstanding, whose work...
...Bonheur, for instance, who died in 1899 at the age of 77, was one of the most popular animal painters in Europe; with her mannish working dress and Légion d'honneur, she was considered a walking proof that "genius has no sex." Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and Angelica Kauffmann were bright stars in the 18th century, Kauffmann in England for her history paintings, Vigee-Lebrun in France for her sparkling and elegant society portraits, like that of Varvara Ivanovna Narishkine (1800). By her 35th year, Vigee-Lebrun reckoned, she had earned more than a million francs with...
...rare film from his Cinematheque collection, 7:30. May 12: Jean Eustache, Robinson's Place and Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes with Jean-Pierre Leaud, 7:30, Maurice Pialat's L'Enfance Nue, 9:30. May 13: Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, 7:30, Agnes Varda, Le Bonheur, 9:30. May 14: Eric Rohmer, La Collectionneuse, 7:30, My Night at Maud's, 9:30. May 15: Phillipe De Broca, Cartouche, with Claudia Cardinale and Jean-Paul Belmondo, 7:30, Love Game, 9:30. May 16: Jean-Luc Godard, Breathless, 7:30, Contempt, 9:30. $2 per night...
...Europeans know how to live', goes the American cliché. Many Europeans might quarrel with that assertion, but there are nonetheless the beginnings of an instructive debate on preserving and enhancing life-styles in the Old World. It turns on the concept of what some call the bonheur national brut, or gross national happiness, an index of the quality of life...