Word: renoir
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...Nolde, colors had a life of their own: "Weeping and laughing, hot and holy, like love songs and eroticism, like chants and magnificent chorales. Vibrating, they peal like silver bells and clang like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death." The "sweetness, often sugariness" of Renoir and Monet was not to his harsher taste, and he complained bitterly in the years before World War II that "their art, because it meets popular taste, is elected darling of the world...
...gallery was auctioned off for $2,200,000, Lurcy's trustees were able to provide a $150,000 annual income for his childless widow, Alice Snow Barbee Lurcy, a former Paris nightclub chorine once described by an art critic friend as "staggeringly beautiful, something between Rubens and Renoir." But last week, after the trust managers had sold her five-story, Fifth Avenue Manhattan town house, the 52-year-old ex-showgirl refused to budge, complained: "I can't leave here. They might come in without my knowing it and dump everything out on the street." Denying that...
...accent was American; only a handful of artists-notably Delacroix, Courbet and Renoir-were foreigners, and almost all came from Bouvier-land. For the rest, along with Mary Cassatt, John Audubon and Childe Hassam, there were some art ists who had scarcely been heard of for years. A former naval person like the President would understandably favor a seascape by James Bard. But a Mount Monomonac by the sentimentalist Abbott Thayer, who died in 1921, or a portrait of Queen Victoria by the stodgy Franz Winterhalter, whom Ruskin dubbed a "dim blockhead," were plainly special tastes...
...artist, and about having 'modern' taste. As a result, a lot of interesting work is being neglected-Italian mannerism, for example, or the art of 19th century Venice, or early 19th century German romanticism. One longs to enter a house or apartment in which Delacroix hangs in Renoir's place, or Courbet in Cezanne...
...Parisian model market so cosmopolitan that perhaps not even De Gaulle himself could turn back the clock. Among the season's best: trim and Finnish Brigitte Juslin, who is tops in sportswear; Switzerland's dark, blue-eyed Carla Marlier; Germany's Nico Ozack ("a magnificent Renoir body-in the nude she doesn't look like a model at all"); Jasmine, ex-shepherdess from Algeria, who gained her poise carrying water jugs on her head. The favorite in the February Harper's Bazaar is Italy's Viviane, known as "La Divine" for reasons explained...