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...exploiting almost all the cinema's techniques of trompe l'oeil, a daring special effects man named Ray Harryhausen has produced a celluloid illusion in which men and monsters, giants and midgets merge without a seam. Unfortunately, though, there are ragged lines in the script-which might be described as accelerated Swift. The dean's fans will, for instance, get a nasty turn when they discover that Gulliver (Kerwin Mathews) has a scantily clad girl friend (June Thorburn). And they may feel even worse when the hero tells her, in ponderous Jungian prose, that "the giants...
Awakened at last in 1922, after a court librarian rediscovered its past, the theater was found to be still in good shape. Its collection of null 18th century sets, ranging from trompe I'oeil farmhouses to ornate court scenes, is the world's largest. The wooden stage machinery, designed by the Italian master Donate Sopani, is so flexible that a four-man windlass team can make a complete scene change in ten seconds. In the 40-odd rooms where actors and singers once lived while the royal family was in residence at Drottningholm, the original hand-painted wallpaper...
...Citerne au Parc du Chateau Noir (1895-1900),--in these water-colors the broken planes and volumes show the new dimension of time which the "Grandfather of Cubism" tentatively proposed as an extension of the three-dimensional perspective space system perfected by the Renaissance and exploited into trompel'oeil mediocrity by the Academics of the 19th century. Also impressive among the Cezanne works in the first floor gallery, is the painting Le Tholonet (1906) in which the unfinished canvas at the bottom left serves as a perhaps unintentional means towards a dynamic impulsion into space...
...Generally, however, the rather uneven quality of the exhibition tends to ensure a quick run-through of the works which merit attention on the part of the artgoer. An inclusive exhibition of a private collection is bound to turn up some third-rate works such as the trompe-l'oeil offerings of one Aaron Shikler, to name the author of three objects among the several works which I found on a par with the average products of the Washington Square Arts Festival. In general, the many minor objects randomly interspersed among the major works gives the impression of an "attic...
...folded concrete, the new UNESCO was steadily winning new friends. "This architecture is done with such talent that it goes perfectly with the Ecole Militaire," decided former Chief of French Museums Georges Salles. "A splendid poem in concrete and glass," said Paris' leading art review, L'Oeil. And from the top of the Eiffel Tower, guides were beginning matter-of-factly to point out UNESCO as one of the marvels of Paris. Modern architecture, like modern art, was beginning to seem like something the French had been in favor of all along...