Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jean Renoir, the French film director, saw his first movies in a Jesuit school where the fathers, " as they everywhere are, were in love with show business." He smiled at the Ivy Film types crowding the Loeb and continued to describe how one small boy who went to the movies on Saturday afternoon grew up to be the director of The Grand Illusion...
...Renoir called his Theodore Spencer Memorial Lecture "Considerations in Film Making." However, as if demonstrating that "art is the conversation of the artist," he did not lecture but conversed with his audience...
...expression of the artist in his work in inevitable: this is the conversation of the artist," Renoir explained. The painter and the director try to communicate rather than to be perfect. "I am not in favor of perfection," he said; "I am in favor of human beings...
...Renoir quoted Sartre in outlining his philosophy of film-making. "Just as essence comes after existence, we know what we are doing only by shaping out work. We have to see, to touch, to smell, to hear, I have made several blue prints for films in my life, and they were all false...
Canvas on Polyester. In Malraux's opinion, the original mistake was that the old ceiling had not been painted by a Delacroix, Renoir, Manet, Monet, Redon or Pissarro. Since none of them are alive, he redecorated...