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That picture is in the LACMA show, along with works by Matisse, Bonnard and Maillol, to demonstrate Renoir's influence. What's apparent from these, however, is that Renoir was most valuable as a stepping-stone for artists making more potent use of the ideas he was developing. The heart of the problem is the challenge Renoir set for himself: to reconcile classical and Renaissance models with the 18th century French painters he loved. To synthesize the force and clarity of classicism with the intimacy and charm of the Rococo is a nearly impossible trick. How do you cross...
...unpopularity of modernist sculpture, as compared with painting, is a fact of life. Americans, especially, seem to prefer painting to sculpture because of its greater power of illusion and fantasy. (Sculpture is resistant stuff, hard to fantasize about. Renoir used to provoke erotic reveries; Maillol, never. You can imagine a painted body as flesh, but a sculpted one remains stone -- hence the archetypal frustration expressed in the myth of Pygmalion.) Combine the relative unpopularity of modern sculpture with its awesome complexity as a subject and one sees the problem of this show. There has not, in fact, been such...
...strength makes you self-assured. The grace makes you more feminine." At 5 ft. 7½ in. and 143 lbs., Navratilova is a Maillol sculpture with a ferocious court sense...
...Postman, Jessica Lange is tall and erect and self-possessed. Her anarchic blond hair frames a face dominated by classic cheekbones and sulfurous dark eyes, suggesting a Faye Dunaway who does not yet know she is beautiful. She has the strength and solidity of a heroic sculpture-Maillol's Leda, perhaps-a peasant-goddess rooted in the earth. With this performance, Lange has passed from the status of minor curiosity as the heroine of Dino De Laurentiis' King Kong to that of respected actress and, maybe, star. Jack Nicholson thinks so: he calls her "the sex star...
...Maurice Wertheim Collection of 38 paintings, drawings and sculptures from the School of Paris will be on display at the Fogg until the end of the summer. Matisse, Bonnard, Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rousseau, Seurat, Van Gogh and Picasso are among the painters included in the collection. Sculpture by Maillol, Degas and Despiau will also be among the works on exhibit...