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...former painter, Lux, 38, brings her images to life with the attention to form, shape and color that she learned at the easel. The artistry begins at the photo shoot, but her signature style--the brushstrokes of her new medium--comes later, at the computer. First she strips out the background and replaces it with a quiet setting--a grassy field, an abandoned building--from her personal stash of paintings and pictures. Then she erases any object that crowds the picture, like a tree or toy, so the child appears to be part of a dream. "I don't care...
...Vicky is immediately attracted to a local painter, Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem, this year's Oscar winner for No Country for Old Men). He is one of those artists, found mostly in fiction (and in the fantasies of artists), whose true vocation is mixing up the hearts of the many women who fall into his bed. Their avid emotions are the canvas on which he splashes the bright strokes of his evanescent ardor. Cristina, ready for an adventure, lures the painter to her and Vicky's table, and Juan Antonio, ever the gracious roue, proposes that the Americans accompany...
...saved the most vibrant character for last: Maria Elena, which Penelope Cruz turns into one of her boldest, fullest characters. A painter so sexy that Juan Antonio's father still has erotic dreams of her, Maria Elena had been Juan Antonio's muse, competitor and wife; their turbulent marriage ended when she tried to kill him. Of course she shows up, once her ex has set up house with Cristina, allowing Allen to run further amorous permutations. A darkroom kiss between Cruz and Johansson is probably Allen's most direct expression of romantic-sexual connection...
...verdant tangle of vines that sprawls to the painting's edge - a fierce assertion that the mind, unlike the body, will not be held captive. "While I was in prison, I was concerned everybody could forget me as an artist," says the now free 42-year-old painter. "I wanted to tell the government: 'Physically, you could lock me up. But you could not lock up my ideas...
...exhibit, “El Greco to Velázquez,” will run through July 27, 2008. It showcases dozens of works from the 23 years of the reign of Philip III, a period that was bookended on either side by the careers of renowned Spanish painters El Greco and Diego Velázquez. The exhibit also features several lesser-known artists, obscure even in Spain, who worked in the Spanish court and collectively bridge the gap between El Greco’s late career and Velázquez’s emergence as a painter...