Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sure, these are different studios from the one-man autocracies that used to welcome creative geniuses like France's Jean Renoir with lavish contracts and then crush their talent with assembly-line production techniques. The old dinosaurs in the corner offices have finally given way to younger dinosaurs. Robert Evans of Paramount is 37. Richard Zanuck, Fox production chief, is 34. David Picker, United Artists' vice president for production, is 36. Today the studios are frequently packagers, providing money and facilities for small, independent production teams-which naturally insist upon artistic control. These film makers are not necessarily...
...boulevards more realistically than did the later impressionists. Last week the museum unveiled a Rubens Holy Family, depicting Jesus and Mary with Joseph, the infant St. John the Baptist and his mother St. Elizabeth (see color overleaf). Its fiery red, electric blues and ripe flesh tones show why Renoir (represented in Chicago by 19 oils and four drawings) looked to Rubens for inspiration...
...critics was the caliber of the work. "Fabulous!" raved the critic for the prestigious Neue Zurcher. "A collection of many practically unknown masterpieces." Particularly admired were two Van Goghs, a Landscape of Auvers painted just three weeks before his death in 1890 and an 1886 self-portrait. A voluptuous Renoir, After the Bath, painted in 1876, is the twin to one in Moscow's Push kin Museum. Also on view are outstand ing paintings by Cezanne, Delacroix, Millet, Manet, Monet, Degas and Corot. But, for many critics, the most exciting works were four oils and two sepia sketches...
...cast, which included Stripteaser Rita Renoir as "Tart," entered against a background of a pile-driving rock-'n'-roll band, go-go girls, and slides of Picasso paintings projected on the backdrop. Tart got right down to business, stripped to the waist and shimmied around wildly, while the rest of the ensemble cavorted about in a grotesque little dance...
...only recently translated. A year ago, British Director Tony Richardson turned the book into a water logged movie starring Jeanne Moreau at her most brackish (TIME, May 5). That was too bad, and unnecessary, for the book at its best has the sunny charm of one of Renoir's floating picnics...