Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into a mistress I had during my last year at school," wrote the Parisian diarist Edmond de Goncourt in 1855, the year in which an unknown 14-year-old apprentice named Pierre Auguste Renoir sat painting flowers on teacups, 60 the dozen, in a china shop in Rue du Temple. "There were still girls like her in those days, girls with a little of the grisette left under their cashmere shawls...She was still the same girl, with the eyes I had loved, her little nose, the lips flat as if crushed by kisses, the supple figure...
...Pierre Renoir became, of course, her painter laureate. From Feb. 3 to April 1, the Art Institute of Chicago has on view its most ambitious exhibition in some years: a loan show of 89 Renoirs, tracing his career from 1862 to 1919, when, crippled by arthritis but still painting with brushes strapped to his ruined claws, he died. At one end there are early works like The Clown, 1868, with the precociously firm, sharp structure of figure and field that the 27-year-old painter had learned from Manet. At the other, one finds the semiclassical and flowery kitsch...
...19th century painter, not even the great sensualist Delacroix, has affected our unconscious view of women as powerfully as Renoir. This is partly due to the popularity of his work and partly to the unwavering, passionate chauvinism of his feelings about his favorite subject, the nude. Compared with Renoir, even Picasso looks like a feminist. "Look," Renoir explained succinctly to his friend, the dealer Ambroise Vollard, "a painter who has the feeling for breasts and buttocks is a saved...
MONDAY: Hollywood Television Theater. Jean Renoir's 1957 drama "Carola"; set during the German occupation, explores the divided loyalties of a French actress. First major production of play stars Leslie Car on and Mel Ferrer. CH. 2, 8 p.m. Color...
SATURDAY: Grand Illusion. The first and the finest of the wartime-escape films, Jean Renoir's 1937 antiwar movie is a classic in every...