Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jean Renoir, a man of great courage and greater art, has achieved the difficult goal he set for himself. He has produced a beautiful version of "The River" that does justice to the original novel. All the excitement of India (the Ganges River and its banks in this case) is laid before us with magnificent color photography--not like a wooden travelogue but as life, flowing like the river. Likewise we are shown the tense and wonderful and painful world of the adolescent daughter of a jute mill supervisor and two of her friends, all three of whom fall...
...beauty of the novel lies in the deep contrast between the calm flow of Indian life outside and the turbulent rapids inside the adolescent girl. Without this contrast the background is superfluous, even distracting, and the girl's problems are deprived of a setting which gives them power. Renoir certainly does not miss this contrast, but I do not feel that he has caught the full force of it. His India struggles to escape the bonds of the story and become a travelogue; his adolescents often seem remote from the local color through which they move. The nuances...
...River (Oriental-International; United Artists] is a thoroughly unconventional movie and a very good one. It rises out of Rumer Godden's autobiographical novel (1946) about an English girl growing up beside a holy river in India. Directed by France's Jean (Grand Illusion) Renoir, who wrote the script with Novelist Godden, and produced entirely in India by a Hollywood florist named Kenneth McEldowney, it is a sensitive, Technicolored record of youthful growing pains, enriched by a poetic perspective of life and a wealth of Indian sights & sounds...
...John Hay Whitneys' pictures, which top the show, are magnificent examples of such modern French greats as Renoir, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Rousseau, Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse. "Jock" Whitney, 47, has an eye for painting to equal his eye for horseflesh and business investments, and his vast fortune amply accommodates his tastes. The Whitneys have a full-time curator, Art Historian John Rewald, to help with their collection, but Whitney decides on all purchases himself. "We've bought what struck us as being particularly beautiful," he says...
This painting leads the gallery's reproduction sales; the guides are questioned about it constantly, and copyists prefer it to all others. Critic Roger Fry once explained Renoir's popularity by remarking that the gentle master "liked passionately the obviously good things of life, the young human animal, sunshine, sky, trees, water, fruit; the things that everyone likes...