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...empty chair. Brief experience with the former is not encouraging. After years of letting the group set their tones and rhythms, the remaining bachelors find their loneliness difficult. And without the calming core with which music provided their lives, they are restive. The appearance of Edoardo Morelli (Pierre Malet) is an unspoken prayer's answer. He is a superb musician. He is a handsome and energizing presence on the stage and in their lives. He can find women, pot or a high-stakes poker game wherever they go. He reminds them all of their lost youths and awakens their...
...Albert Malet, despite the unenviable distinction of being "the last of ... ," paints intensely beautiful scenes that could have been painted any time in the last 100 years but not by anyone else. They are timeless without that overly decorous and rather anonymous look of the Binets. "Bords de Seine pres de Rouen" is a painting with the classic Impressionist theme--the play of air, light and water--that is a gorgeous and glowing juxtaposition of summery pinks, oranges, turquoises and golds with a twilight wintry landscape of muted purples and greys. "Neige a Limesy" is the only one of Malet...
Someone once said that avant-garde movements inevitable lose their momentum, citing Impressionism and the hippie movement as classic examples of his theory. Yet the art of Malet is fortunate: Created in an age so befuddled by every kind of "-ism" from Fauvism to Cubism to Dadaism, and with new fashions developing in geometric progression, it is graced by a label which, while evoking instant recognition (everyone's aunt gushes over "the lovely Impressionist paintings"), does not really set any limits on an artist's self-expression. Impressions pure and simple. Few painters escape the biggest pitfall along this path...
...preoccupied with each other's reactions to art as with the art itself. The paintings on exhibit include 10 works rarely seen in this country by the Post-Impressionist Georges Binet (1865-1949) and a rich collection of recent works by the 65-year-old Rouen artist, Albert Malet, who has been called "the last of the Impressionists." The paintings are very different in spirit but alike in quality; this is a small exhibition, but you will want to linger long...
...Honfleur" for example is a relatively simple harbor scene with two sailboats, one red, one blue, at the right foreground, but the painting is not just pretty. When Binet paints this kind of subject, one hears a chatter of Edwardian polite conversation. With Malet, though, though, it is the screaming gull one imagines...