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...teachers, Soyer remembers vividly George Bellows and Robert Henri, and most especially he remembers the night that Henri introduced him to a Daumier drawing of hungry men and women and their sad-eyed children. He immediately felt the "sympathy with which the artist drew this group." Soyer has always had this same sympathy for his own sad-eyed figures. They often seem overwhelmed by their own thoughts, caught in a moment of reverie when, while most turned in upon themselves, they reveal themselves the most. Of his style, Soyer says: "I like an artist who talks with a low voice...
...Part II Michele Morgan is valiant and pure as a woman who has been falsely accused of adultery by her husband's political enemies. Told partly through Daumier-like drawings, partly through live action (mostly the narrowing of Mlle. Morgan's elegant nostrils), it takes place in France of 1885 and culminates in a noisy courtroom acquittal. Moral: it doesn't pay to underestimate the power of a nostril...
...case with the two farces by Georges Courteline currently being offered by the Actors Playhouse, at the Hotel Bostonian. Article 330, the curtain-raiser, is one of a number of brief but biting anti-legal playlets by Courteline, inspired by much the same distaste for juridical hoopla underlying Daumier's Gens de Justice and countless other examples of esprit gaulois from Mantre Pathelin to the present. La Brige, harassed hero of several Courteline comedies, finds himself at odds with Justice for violation of the article in the Civil Code forbidding indecent exposure. But this is no scabrous little burlesque...
...refugee from the Grand Guignol is now widely considered to be Britain's most exciting painter. At 52, Bacon deserves his success, for he has resisted every trend and fashion in art to hack out a path all his own. Though shaped by such old masters as Rembrandt, Daumier and Velasquez ("He haunts me so much I can't let him go"), he has been as much influenced by the here and now of the photograph as by anything else. War, terrorism, gory accidents-these fleeting instants of agony fascinate Bacon. His torn and dislocated figures often seem...
...this point, Vadim's amused, amusing manner suggests that he is merely playing games of love. But suddenly, surreally, as in the cautionary cartoons of Honoré Daumier or Félicien Rops, the mask of painted sophistication is ripped away to reveal the grinning skull with its swarm of worms. In a vicious series of rebounding betrayals, the husband is murdered, the wife is disfigured, the virtuous young mother goes insane...