Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lies in the dexterity of his hands, how much in the depths of his imagination? Those art-seminar questions are now the very practical concern of a Paris court. At issue are 32 works of sculpture that came out of the atelier of the great French impressionist painter Auguste Renoir shortly before his death half a century ago. In a suit seeking to win rights as "co-author," a Spanish-born sculptor named Richard Guino, 78, is arguing that his were the hands that really shaped the Renoir masterpieces...
...violence. I translated by instinct, without any method." In fact, his method of squeezing colors directly from the paint tubes onto the canvas was largely inspired by viewing the Van Gogh exhibition of 1901. In addition, portraits such as L'Enfant Madeline betray a vestigial debt to Renoir's child portraits, while the pointillistic detail and balanced composition of Vue de Chatou suggest more than a few hours spent in the galleries studying the neo-impressionist work of Seurat and Signac...
...slipped into one of the hundreds of excellent underground collections of films throughout the country: collections which possess all of Chaplin's features, and such classics as Murnau's Tabu, Rosselini's Paisan, complete versions of Fritz Lang's first Doctor Mabuse, and early films by Jean Renoir, to name some of the most popular items in the underground market...
...thirteen Friday and Saturday nights you can see the all-time film classics in the Sack Theatres "Cinma Spectrum" series. Starting Feb. 16, the series will include Billy Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard," Rossellini's "Open City," John Ford's "Grapes of Wrath," a set of Chaplin shorts, and Jean Renoir's "A Day in the Country." Get your tickets while they last...
...Louis XIV, and films made in 1967 but not yet shown here (Bunuels' Belle de Jour, Godard's La Chinoise). To make things simpler, I eliminate European films made over two years ago but released in New York during 1967. Andrew Sarris has included Bunuels' Exterminating Angel and Renoir's Boudou saved From Drowning on his list; I would also mention Godard's Le Petit Soldat and Marker's Le Mystere Koumiko, were they eligible under my own rules. The films are listed in order of personal preference...