Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More than the other conquered-nations productions, this one is essentially a serious play about individual ideological dilemmas. Those represented here are complex and not very clearly dramatized, and are apt to leave audiences dangling. For this fault, neither Writer Dudley Nichols (scripter of The Informer) nor Director Jean Renoir (Grand Illusion) is entirely to blame: they bit off more than they could chew...
...golden glimpse of a washerwoman ascending the steps from the river to the Quai d'Anjou, where the painter lived. A few hundred yards farther down the river, Paris' crowded Pont Neuf, the city's oldest bridge despite its name, was painted by Girtin, Renoir, Pissarro. A farewell was paid to Paris by several artists, among them the Dutchman Johann Barthold Jongkind, with a lovely view of Notre Dame towering over the river barges...
...theater's top rung, she retorts: "It's about time." Told that The Three Sisters will be a model for aspiring actresses, she snaps: "It should be." Asked to compare her acting with Cornell's and Anderson's, she counters: "Do you say that Renoir is two inches behind Manet, or Degas a foot ahead?" She snarls at Nature: "I don't care if a flower grows upside down or inside out, I don't even care if it grows." She smacks down California: "It reminds me of a Shubert production." Unlike Actress Cornell...
...Parisian art dealers at a sale in Unoccupied France bought a 350,000-franc Renoir, a 250,000-franc Modigliani...
Long a foe of the Curry-Benton-Wood school of Midwest realism, barrel-chested Painter Carroll declares: "It gives us a view of American life through a knothole in a backhouse door." Like the late great Pierre Auguste Renoir, whom six wars failed to swerve from his preoccupation with female breasts and buttocks, John Carroll prefers women to barns, feels that good art is seldom inspired by current events or political ideas. A painter's job, he believes, is to idealize his subjects. "If I wanted to paint a picnic scene," he says, "instead of showing a picnic site...