Word: henri
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...course, in adapting Sade's work for film, director Henri Xhonneux faces an obvious dilemma: how can one possibly depict the contents of a book like 120 Days of Sodom without the result being banned in every country on the globe? Xhonneux's solution is to hide his actors under elaborate animatronic masks not unlike those used in Jim Henson's "The Dark Crystal." No human faces appear in the film. And though Miss Piggy wasn't above making a few amorous overtures to Kermit, she surely never dreamed of carrying on as the pigs, dogs and cows of "Marquis...
Capital punishment provoked heavy internal debate. The final text says that a punishment should be "proportional to the gravity of the crime, without excluding in extreme cases the death penalty." Henri Tincq of Le Monde found that "incomprehensible" in light of opposition to state execution by the hierarchies of France, Canada...
Sometimes an exhibition will define the work of a major artist for a whole generation. So with the Museum of Modern Art's Picasso retrospective in 1980. Now New York City's MOMA has done it again, with "Henri Matisse: A Retrospective" (through Jan. 12), devoting most of its space to an enormous survey of Matisse's paintings, drawings, collages and sculpture curated by art historian John Elderfield...
Bellows studied at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri, the American realist disciple of Frans Hals and Edouard Manet. "My life begins at this point," he said of his apprenticeship to Henri. He soon developed a tough, pragmatic repertoire based on realist drawing and tonal composition. He was by far the most gifted younger member of the Ashcan School, a loose group that included John Sloan, George Luks and William Glackens. Not one of them ever painted an ash can, but they did believe, in a general way, that the artist should work from life...
Genzyme's president, Henri Termeer, said at the time that the lack of a definitive pro-business stance in Cambridge made the company uneasy...