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...SAID IT? From the top: Martin Luther William Shakespeare (Hamlet) Rene Descartes Thomas Jefferson Karl Marx Sir Henry Morton Stanley Franklin D. Roosevelt Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind Martin Luther King, Jr. Neil Armstrong...
Harvard Film Archive. Entr'acte/Intermission. Directed by Rene Clair. One of the first films in which the images and events do not follow a narrative continuity, but are related on the principles of the unconscious works. A Page of Madness/Kurutta Ippeiji. Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Depicts the inner world of insane people, confined in a lunatic asylum. Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 7:30 p.m. $4 for students and seniors; $5 for general admission...
...Rene Magritte's conundrums are still mind-wrenching...
...IMAGES AND IDEAS OF RENE Magritte are known to millions of people who do not know him by name. So argues the art historian Sarah Whitfield in her catalog to the retrospective of 168 works by the great Belgian Surrealist that opens at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art this week, and she is certainly right. This accounts for the faint feeling of deja vu that even non- Magritteans sometimes get when looking at his work. Magritte died in 1967, but for the best part of a half-century his images -- or variants on them -- have been used...
...vache (stupid painting), as he called it -- it's as though, in parodying other Belgian artists (Ensor, and a particularly gross comic illustrator named Deladoes), he touched a demotic rock bottom from which he could only recoil in the end. But Georgette hated the new style, and by 1950 Rene was back to the old one, often repainting versions of images he had first made in the '30s. This recycling fitted his own idea of himself as a craftsman rather than an artist. You could make more than one chair to the same pattern...