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Claude Chabrol, who excels at tightly disciplined exercises in suspense (This Man Must Die, Le Boucher), seems himself to be going momentarily delirious in Ten Days' Wonder, where tension and insight are subordinated to sorry stylistic flamboyance. Chabrol's camera swoops about like a dizzy flamingo, descending from...
It did: from the broadly patterned interiors, still lifes and self-portraits of the early '90s, with their jewel color, through the series of big decorative murals that he painted on commission. "Decorative" was no insult to Vuillard. He thought decoration one of the higher functions of art, and...
The son of a strict Calvinist schoolteacher, Mondrian began his art studies in Holland. In the Guggenheim show, we first meet him around 1890, painting talented but not remarkable brown Netherlands landscapes and still lifes. Though Mondrian came to detest nature, the flat horizons punctuated by vertical poplars and crisscross...
But in Olga he picked exactly the wrong wife. She was pretty, inflexibly respectable and snobbish; she tried hard to reform Picasso's bohemian habits. His portraits of Olga when they were in love (32) are among the few completely insipid Picassos that exist. As the marriage disintegrated, the...
As a visitor approaches Darling's house today, he is confronted by a bewildering jumble of wild colors. He walks along a cement path adorned with Oriental mountains, and climbs a porch whose walls are filled with the birds, bears and skunks of Yellowstone National Park. He passes through...