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...Draughtsman's Contract...
...DRAUGHTSMAN'S CONTRACT Directed and Written by Peter Greenaway
...17th century playwright William Congreve had been discovered. Fancy further that his comedy was put not on the stage but on film, with every world-weary epigram and convoluted conceit intact. Such a notion must have occurred to the English experimental film maker Peter Greenaway. With The Draughtsman's Contract, which he wrote and directed two years ago, he has restored the Restoration sensibility. Here is a comedy-mystery laced with Triple Sec humor and stately, raunchy characters who are bound, by their social and sexual pretensions, to find an ordained place in society's elegantly constricting design...
SAUL STEINBERG plays with your mind. In his world, ornate vases tower over insubstantial people while gunny sacks and trash cans become city streets. His work is intimately contemporary, deliberately shirking any monumentality. With a draughtsman's feeling for line and form, a unique vision of twentieth century civilization and a not unsympathetic sense of satire, he fuses visual and psychological worlds...
Durer also applied his genius as a draughtsman and his innate sense of order to the achievements of the Italian Renaissance masters. He comprehended their rational approach and soon mastered their clarity and formal expression. While investigating the problems of perspective and the antique canons of proportion, Durer tried to instill his Germanic naturalism with a disciplined Renaissance structure. Yet even in his most formalized, classical drawings there remains a constant struggle between reason and intuition, between generalizing formalism and particularizing realism...