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...choose Rembrandt over Rothko...
...Rembrandt's a Noun. Rothko worries a good deal about the notion of image. " 'Rembrandt' has become a noun," says he, "a noun that conjures up a particular kind of painting. 'Rembrandt' has become an image." So, indeed, in a smaller way has Rothko, and this automatically places a limit on his striving toward the limitless. To Rothko, almost everything depends on the viewer's being able to approach a painting as a pure and unique experience, for which he should not be prepared. The impact of color, the electric shimmer of an edge...
...with M-G-M designing sets and decorating them with synthetic "masterpieces." Metro was unculturedly demanding. "If you painted some predominantly blue Cezannes on Tuesday and they turned out all right," he recalls, "somebody would give you another order on Thursday for, say, a Rembrandt, only he'd say, 'Do it in'blue, like that other...
Realism Turns Unreal. He tirelessly sketched models of Greek and Roman statues, studied Rembrandt, Titian, Velasquez, and most of all, El Greco. When it came to his own painting, he refused to be hurried, would go through hundreds of "sittings"-three-to four-hour stretches before the easel-to achieve what he wanted. With a lesser talent, the result might have been dry and academic. Under Dickinson's brush a mystic world of magic harmonies emerged...
This one, however, is in color; brilliant reproductions-from Rubens to Rembrandt-fill the screen, with occasionally interspersed photographs of the pastel landscape of the Holy Land as it is now. Accompanied by a superb Robert Russell Bennett score, detail follows detail from the works of the masters-the pale, thin-lipped face of the Virgin in Rogier van der Weyden's Annunciation, fearful tears in the aged eyes of a Jordaens shepherd, Massys' open-mouthed Magi. Skillfully but not trickily panning across the pictures from face to face, scene to scene, Producer-Director Donald Hyatt achieves...