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Other approaches may be not less successful. Engraved invitations to a private viewing of Durer woodcuts have been known to produce certain effects, but a really specialized attack requires more information. Information offices are shockingly liberal toward section-manly voices. A little skill and resonance can yield the place and date of birth, family and educational backgrounds, field of concentration, course program, weight, vaccination record, and attitude toward raw carrots, of a really special prospect. The sophisticated one then develops problems with which the 'Cliffie is particularly adapted to cope, and places himself in a position where the latent mother...
...main reason why not one should miss The Seventh Seal is that it is a masterfully constructed piece of cinematic art. The cast performs with high distinction; lighting, costumes, sets, and makeup evoke the late Middle Ages with the authenticity of a Durer woodcut; and the entry of the flagellants is surely one of the most appalling scenes ever filmed. But Bergman's Gothic allegory will also trouble audiences philosophically, for it retains its symbolic ambiguity to the end and will not permit a facile interpretation or glib dismissal of any sort. For the Eliot House Anglicans...
Against the Moon, Another great disciple of Dürer was the little-known Albrecht Altdorfer, who worked chiefly as an architect and lives through no more than two dozen surviving pictures. As a painter, he ranks close to Durer himself. The Pinakothek has six Altdorfers, including the fabulous picture of the battle of Alexander and Darius at Gaugamela. Napoleon once confiscated the painting, and reportedly hung it in his bathroom at Saint Cloud. Five feet high and painted in the meticulous lapidary manner of a miniature throughout, the picture so absorbed Altdorfer that in order to be free...
...Realism" suggests boredom and academic stuffiness to our twentieth century mentality; yet, Rembrandt or Durer, prime realists, evoke quite the opposite reaction. These masters were realists, too, and they, as these two young printmakers today are beginning to do, made palpable the external appearance of things while revealing their essential nature...
...Shrew of Aubrey Schwarz is especially fascinating because it has such strident symbolic power. Schwarz borrows his technique from Durer's enamel engravings, but the daring placement of the shrew, the uncanny emphasis on its very white eye belongs to the modern period. Without losing its descriptive accuracy, The Shrew is designed as a harrowing picture; the animal shown is an image of horrid, unfathomable evil...