Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...news by giving an important loan exhibition of Goya paintings (TIME, April 23). This week, with a new season just under way, Knoedler's again made news with another important loan show. On exhibition were 31 canvases by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. Carefully selected, the pictures clearly revealed the charm which has made Corot a necessity in every big museum in the world, has caused him to be included in most Grade A private collections. Surprisingly realistic were his Femme Accoudee (lent by Horace Havermeyer), his peasant woman taking care of her child on the seashore (from the Pennsylvania Museum...
When he first started painting, the influence of David was still strong. Historical and stilted allegorical subjects were the vogue. The importance and charm of Corot's best landscapes and figures lie in the fact that, in spite of a dry academic education, he managed to feel and observe nature in his canvases. Like most painters of the period he studied in Rome. He soon discovered the trick of making his daylight luminous by having it trickle through dark foreground trees...
...quite well with a rather vapid leading role in which she is allowed to do little more than look attractive and sing a Lucienne Boyet type of song in a rather even, delicate voice. Miss Gallian is very handsome to see and has a highly attractive sort of Gallic charm; she should do well given a worthy vehicle for her talents...
...which she learned from Maurice Chevalier. Ignoring the current vogue for inaccessibility in imported film players, Ketti Gallian appeared at parties all dressed up, gave interviews with zest. She managed to keep her weight down riding a bicycle and swimming. Less sexy than many importations, she has a quick charm and an informal blonde beauty. She has gone back to France, will return for another picture...
...must speak in an original voice. Poet Millay's originality lies not in a surprisingly exact vocabulary but in the fainter, pleasanter flavor of language reminiscent of poetry-at-large. Though her studied verse sometimes sounds too consciously traditional, such classic artifice as the following will have charm for most readers...