Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does take place in The Bride Wore Black, Truffaut suggesting that at least three of Julie's victims die more realized human beings, better for having known her. On one extreme the first victim sees Julie and briefly questions the nature of his expedient marriage plans; most seriously, the painter (brilliantly played by Charles Denner) falls deeply in love with her. Julie is cognizant of her potential for redeeming these men, but she painfully subordinates any feelings of mercy to her solitary desire for revenge. "I am," she says to her third victim suffocating in a broom closet, "already dead...
...seen as the spiritual forefather of postcubist movements, ranging from the gesture paintings of the abstract expressionists to the gaily erotic whimsies of such pop artists as Warhol, Lichtenstein and Oldenburg. Miró is not only the most influential painter of the generation that came to maturity between two world wars; he is also the finest living painter after Picasso...
...skill lies in the dexterity of his hands, how much in the depths of his imagination? Those art-seminar questions are now the very practical concern of a Paris court. At issue are 32 works of sculpture that came out of the atelier of the great French impressionist painter Auguste Renoir shortly before his death half a century ago. In a suit seeking to win rights as "co-author," a Spanish-born sculptor named Richard Guino, 78, is arguing that his were the hands that really shaped the Renoir masterpieces...
...disputes Guino's astonishing claim. In Paris in 1913, the 23-year-old Guino was asked to help Renoir work at his new interest - sculpting. Crippled by rheumatism and a stroke, the ailing 72-year-old painter was barely able to hold a brush, let alone handle sculp tor's clay. So, under Renoir's strict and detailed supervision, the young Guino executed the artist's conceptions. The collaboration continued for four fruitful years, apparently to the satisfaction of both men. Renoir attached his name to the works; Guino settled for a small...
...ports, then came ashore in London. There he washed dishes, cooked under Escoffier, and met Fabian socialists; he moved on to Paris in 1917. "The French left," says Lacouture, turned "an angry patriot into a modern revolutionary." Setting himself up as a retoucher of photographs and a painter of "Chinese antiquities" manufactured in France, Ho changed his name from Nguyen Tat Thanh to Nguyen Ai Quoc-"Nguyen the patriot." A wraithlike figure "always armed with a book" (Zola, Shakespeare, Dickens, as well as Marx), he was nicknamed, unaccountably, "little M. Ferdinand...