Word: bonnard
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...watch, the takeoff roll for Air France Flight 380 lasted 35 seconds. "39 seconds," corrected Laurent Bonnard, a French historian, as we chatted in a lounge area later. Either way, all the planiacs on board Air France's inaugural A380 Airbus flight from New York City to Paris agreed the takeoff was a thing of beauty. Imagine an apartment building with wings that steps into the sky with the quiet grace of a ballet dancer. The lack of engine noise - it's 50% quieter than a 747-400 on takeoff - was downright eerie. The A380...
...become the academic painter he was never suited to be. Three years later, he was back in Ostend, making highly capable portraits, still lifes and domestic interiors and looking very likely to end up a lifelong observer of the bourgeois home front, a Belgian equivalent of Vuillard or Bonnard...
...With her declamatory colors and her inventory of shoes and spoons, children's toys and kitchen tables, she could remind you sometimes of Bonnard, the French homebody who found paradise in his own kitchen and an iridescent grotto in his wife's bath. For all her overflowing manner, Murray was what the French call an intimiste, a painter, like Bonnard or Vuillard or even Matisse, who takes the modest precincts of domestic life as a perfectly good place to make art. Then, if they can, they floodlight the room with whatever it is we mean by genius. This is what...
...Grand Parade, Portrait of the Artist as Clown at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais (March 11-May 31). With 200 paintings, drawings, sculptures, film clips and installations, the show covers two centuries of this circus lineup, as envisioned by 83 artists including Goya, Ensor, Klee, Beckmann, Dix, Picasso, Bonnard, Hopper, Freud, Robert Capa and Diane Arbus. It's a perilous leap from Chardin's delightful The Monkey Painter and Toulouse-Lautrec's bitter yellow La Clownesse Cha-U-Kao to video artist Pierrick Sorin's ad nauseam Pie Fight, but like Paris itself, there is something for just about...
...artistic talent could occasionally shine through, transcending the intended ideology. Kazimir Malevich's 1928 Reapers, a bold, block-colored painting of three peasant women, is as stunning as the groundbreaking abstracts that made him famous in Czarist days. And Alexander Deineka's 1931 On the Balcony owes more to Bonnard or Matisse than to Stalin. But it is the affinity between Stalinist art and American commercial art that drives the show. Both evolved almost simultaneously on the strength of new media developments. Both aimed at mass appeal. And both presented an unattainably idyllic family life. Look at Alexander Laktionov...