Word: bruegels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fused Concerns. They step forth hesitantly, to look about them at a world which has come a long way from the crystalline vision celebrated by the icon makers. Yet Giacometti, however attenuated the impulse, is still in the lineage that reaches back to Bruegel's exuberant vision, Rembrandt's passionate introspection, the language of humanism. Across town at the Biennale, the young propose that the visual concerns of seven centuries have been mined out, exhausted. The argument is none too convincing among the melted statues and faltering gadgetry. It suggests that their alternative is itself running...
...Helsinki-Meister Francke's earliest known work. Its eight richly painted panels sum up the characteristic ambiguities of Meister Francke's style. In The Flagellation of St. Barbara, the brutal, peasant faces and awkward, potbellied figures of Barbara's tormentors foreshadow the popular style of Bruegel or Bosch-though neither painter had been born when they were painted. By contrast, nothing could be more courtly than the boneless sinuosity of Barbara's figure, the vapid sweetness of her untroubled expression or the richly brocaded gowns and hierarchic formality of the aristocratic spectators...
...which may partly explain his remarkable success at supporting raving fantasy and very real suspense in a single story. With painterly sleight of hand, he recreates the fabulous landscape of a deranged artist's mind. It is a terrain at once fearful and frolicsome-as if Bruegel's earthy dancing peasantry had been set down in a demon-filled scene by Hieronymus Bosch...
CAMERA THREE (CBS, 11-11:30 a.m.). Gilbert Highet, critic, scholar and author, attempts to solve a minor but amusing artistic puzzle concerning the identity of the bridegroom in Peasant Wedding, a 16th century painting by Flemish Master Pieter Bruegel...
Persona. Director Ingmar Bergman is modern cinema's most persistent observer of the human condition. He examines the Eden that is Sweden and sees-much as Bruegel once did in Flanders-that the occupants are really having a Hell of a time. Persona, his 27th film, fuses two of Bergman's familiar obsessions: personal loneliness and the particular anguish of contemporary woman. It is the story of a great stage actress (Liv Ullman), suddenly become mute and detached while starring in a production of Electra. She is afflicted with what medieval theologians called accidie-a total indifference...