Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prancing and gesturing in front of a giant photograph of Renoir's painting The Dance at Bougival (taken by an experimental Polaroid camera that reproduces works of art with startling fidelity), Land put on a virtuoso performance for the stockholders. He passionately defended the U.S. patent system: "We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents." He' twitted Kodak's new camera, saying that "the new group would like to confine...
...Renoir. Kenneth Anger...
...based on large shapes, resolute drawing, deep tonal contrasts. The result was a classical gravity, "a Homeric idyll, in patois," as one admirer put it. From such an angle, the decorative side of impressionism would have seemed pointless, and perhaps it is only as the taste for pretties like Renoir recedes that Millet's achievement becomes once more apparent...
...Jean Renoir's Picnic on the Grass (Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe) with a Max Fleischer, Betty Boop short, tonight only...
...Jean Renoir's Elena et Les Hommes (1958) with Walt Disney's Alice's Egg Plant, tonight...