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...Metamorphoses of the Gods, and spends his rare moments of rest strolling through his elegant garden in Verrieres-le-Buisson with his two cats, named Fourrure (fur) and Essuie-plume (penwiper). Still French Polymath Andre Malraux, 73, took time out to visit the Louvre for a television tribute to Michelangelo in honor of the 500th anniversary of the artist's birth. "Michelangelo invented the hero type. It had not existed before him, and he certainly did not discover it in antiquity, where it does not exist either, despite a well-anchored presumption," said the former Minister of Culture under...
MANY NASTY THINGS have been written about Michelangelo Antonioni since his L'Avventura grabbed a legion of intellectuals and turned them into cultists in the early '60s--the backlash that follows movie cults is inevitably louder, bitchier and more memorable than the initial shockwave that turns a movie into a classic. For years, these two warning camps have made a lot of noise about Antonioni knowing that moviegoers themselves seldom rely on their own judgment but rather trust the deductions of those who are in a position to release periodic edicts...
Directed by MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI Screenplay by MARK PEPLOE, PETER WOLLEN and MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI
...CONSIDER THE image of the Harvard man--America's version of Michelangelo's David a rare treasure coyly shielded by a sprig of ivy, idling on an escalator headed for corporate influence, medical excellence or academic fame. In other words, power. And many Radcliffe women want that power, Spearheading achievement in their secondary schools, these women nosed in on Harvard, their springboard to success...
Fuseli had gone to ? Rome to study painting, and there he was swept away by Michelangelo's Last Judgment. From it most of his work stems: the heroic figures bulging against a flat, gloomy space, the hunched or springing poses, the search for an atmosphere of sublime effort. Even the mannish faces Fuseli gave his witches and bizarre courtesans hark back to Michelangelo. So, in fact, did his idea of the artist as hero: Fuseli raised this romantic chimera to a mock-religious pitch by proposing to fresco another Sistine in homage to Shakespeare. Only a few studies...