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...cultures. Six of the 21 features he directed were based on works by American writers, from Cornell Woolrich (The Bride Wore Black) to Henry James (The Green Room), yet they were unmistakably French in atmosphere and obsessions. In Truffaut's pantheon of directors, Hitchcock rubbed shoulders with Jean Renoir, and his own films sizzled with the tension between Hitchcock's manipulative elegance and Renoir's sharp-eyed humanism. The French title of Day for Night, the 1973 valentine to film making in which Truffaut plays a director, is La Nuit Américaine. So it seems sadly...
...there is another reason to connect Watteau with impressionism: the colloquial, almost chatty strand of improvisation that purls along the surface of his art without distracting from its depths. As with Renoir, his models were his friends. He drew them incessantly, in fine-pointed chalks -a red, a white and a black, the famous trois crayons -whose use he had learned from Rubens. Their faces and poses, rendered in that wiry, atmospheric line, became a collection of types, single figures like the Seated Woman that he would combine for his finished compositions...
...asks his children and concludes that "I can frankly answer no." Yet he cannot forbear reminding them of all the impressive people and places they have experienced, thanks solely to their relationship to him. While he was hobnobbing with crowned heads and the likes of Chaplin, Cocteau and Jean Renoir, he always made sure that the physicians who watched over him and his growing brood were "world famous," or at the very least "big." At Hotchkiss, one of the innumerable schools they attended, trailing behind their father's impulse to establish, then break up permanent homes, there...
Seurat was the wayward child of impressionism. Renoir and Sisley might seek to catch life on the fly; he would aspire to stasis. Their voluptuous brushstrokes were too imprecise, too sensational for this artist-scientist. Seurat worked dot by meticulous dot, woodpeckering the canvas with pricks of color that would fuse into meaning in the spectator's eye. So it is with the sculptor in Act II of Sunday in the Park with George. This George composes bit by bit, or byte by byte. He has created a computerized sculpture, Chromolume #7 (chromo-luminarism is an other critical term...
...discovered that he had faked and sold at least 13 works, purportedly by Samuel Palmer (1805-81), the English painter. Keating admitted that he had churned out about 2,500 imitation masterpieces in 25 years-at prices as high as $35,000-including paintings in the style of Degas, Renoir, Turner and Constable. Keating's case went to trial in 1979, but charges were dropped after doctors said he was too ill to testify...