Word: corots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for some bracing outdoor scenes, shot in southern Arizona, of amber plains, crystalline streams and Corot-cool forests, strikingly composed by Director John (The Old Man and the Sea) Sturges, the picture is mostly one long, gun-slinging showdown that fairly oozes blood and bathos. One tough gets his right through a poker table, another is mowed down by a sawed-o^ shotgun at close range. The hell-bent kid is killed by mistake by one of his own saddle-bum chums...
...Railway died in 1916. A self-educated plunger who grew rich by learning fast and backing his opinions stubbornly, Jim Hill began buying paintings when he was 43, rapidly moved from sentimental genre pictures to the bucolic moodiness of France's Barbizon School and the summery scenes of Corot, in time learned to like Monet and Renoir. Among Hill's favorites were the rousing historical scenes of the great 19th century French Romantic, Eugene Delacroix, including The Algerian Combat.* Hill's own sound maxim, discovered early: good art drives out bad. In his last years, while...
Adman Lasker at 64 plunged into the market, convinced that the world of advertising art had all along been drawing its ideas from the prime originators of modern painting. In the next eight years he amassed a spectacular collection ranging from an 1834 Corot to a 1950 Joán Miró. The results, shown by the 60 color plates of The Albert D. Lasker Collection (Simon & Schuster; $20), make one of the handsomest art books of the season...
...have to print such monstrosities as Clyfford Still's Red and Black and Okada's Dynasty and call it art ? They are nothing but nightmares. Give me a Corot or a Bonheur. Their trees and horses look like trees and horses...
...after the boom in 19th century French impressionists was well under way, the paintings in the Niarchos show will include no less than four each by Cézanne, Gauguin and Degas, six Rouaults, nine Renoirs, seven Van Goghs, plus outstanding works by Matisse, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Goya, Delacroix, Corot and El Greco (see color pages). The show represents the utmost in mid-20th century moneyed taste...