Word: rembrandt
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...demure-looking children. All of them were taken nearly a hundred years ago. The photographer who had made them had died in his native Scotland in 1870 without ever having seen a modern film or darkroom. But he had caught the dour, moody characters of his sitters with a Rembrandt-like vividness that no present-day camera artist has ever surpassed. His name: David Octavius Hill...
...divine Kshesinskaya, the ballerina whom Nicholas II loved. It was the city of grey and pink granite, of Rastrelli's baroque Winter Palace, Catherine the Great's classicism, Alexander I's low-lying "architectural landscapes." At its Imperial Opera, Prince Igor had its première. Rembrandt's Polish Nobleman hung in its Hermitage. It was the town where skylarks sang, in whose parks birches crowded, and under the birches melting little Russian mushrooms grew...
...Wrath" of the Hoover era. Its coarse characters, crude action, and real-to-life plot made it a sociology text as well as a novel. It was a chunky, earthy portrayal of actual conditions on Georgia tenant farms by a writer whose pen had the realistic flair of Rembrandt's paintbrush. Adapted for the stage in 1933 "Tobacco Road" broke all records for longevity and attendance. Its dialogue was delivered not only with Georgia drawl but also with Georgia poor-white, obscene explicitness. The pathetic humor of the play prodded the social conscience as well as the funny-bone. After...
...obvious fact that cartoons reach a much greater audience and therefore have a bigger influence than the single picture exhibited in some museum. I'm not ready to say that a Disney film is better than a Rembrandt or vice versa. This business is really too young to tell much yet as to how far an artist can go if he makes a career of it. I'm inclined to think, however, that in time artists will be developed in this field who will be just as great as some of the past masters whom...
Window dressers twisted the work of dozens of living and dead painters into ads to catch the feminine shopper's eye. Their displays were painted and draped to resemble Gauguins, Bonnards, Utrillos, Chiricos, Redons, Vlamincks. Helena Rubinstein's famed beauty salon decked itself with Picasso, Manet and Rembrandt windows, including living female models who held poses as painted portraits for 15 minutes at a stretch. Finally Bonwit Teller went everybody else one better...