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...reminds us that Reynolds "at least took his art seriously--he at least set the example of a high standard of artistic conscience." Not everybody will agree with Fry that the portrait of Lord Heathfield is Reynold's masterpiece, but everybody will be glad to read his tribute to Gainsborough, whom he salutes as an artist unique in the XVIIIth century, who "saw and felt plastically." Even Macaulay's schoolboy must have been struck by the curious inability of the XVIIITH century to draw a Gothic tower that did not look "faked," perhaps Gainsborough's realism came from his scepticism...
...development of that field of art from the 16th to the 19th Century, they were able to find in their vaults such impressive masterpieces as a St. Jerome in the Wilderness by Paolo Veronese, a murky Spanish scene by Murillo. a rainy day in the English hills by Gainsborough, not to mention Constables, Cromes, and a fine Corot of the best period. The show represented a great deal of money, but critics and visitors neglected it for the corridor and side rooms where were displayed over 200 sketches, landscape drawings, archeological studies, costume plates, water colors and oil portraits...
...specialist in elemental-struggle-for-existence sagas. When he heard that the Aran Islands, off the Galway coast of Ireland, were so barren that the inhabitants had to gather soil in baskets to grow potatoes in crevices of rock, he went to England's Gainsborough Pictures Ltd. for financial backing. Man of Aran is the result of his two-year sojourn on Inishmore, largest of the three islands. Decorated with a musical score based on Irish folk songs, equipped with intermittent scraps of Gaelic, the picture proves the Aran Islands to be as inhospitable as Director Flaherty could have...
Year ago Morris Joseloff wandered into London's International Art Galleries on St. James Street, was shown two Reynoldses, a Gainsborough, a Hopper, a Sebastiano del Piombo, a "Master of Frankfurt." Because he badly needed money, said Gallery Director S. M. Salomon, he would sell the lot to Mr. Joseloff for ?8,000 ($46,625). Mr. Joseloff agreed to buy provided Mr. Salomon could produce certificates of authenticity, planned to hang his new acquisitions with his already authenticated Corot, Velasquez, Romney, Constable. When Mr. Salomon promised to mail the certificates, Mr. Joseloff paid, sailed, with pictures...
Produced by Gainsborough Pictures, filmed on a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland, Man of Aran was rehearsed, directed, filmed, developed, printed and cut by a U. S. citizen-the same Robert J. Flaherty who made a great cinema reputation with his Nanook of the North and Moana of the South Seas...