Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Toni" and "A Day in the Country" at 7:30 p.m. "Toni" is one of the most realistic of Jean Renoir's films depicting the life of a group of Italian immigrants working in a quarry. Shot in an authentic environment, with newsreel-like photography, without any makeup on the actors' faces, the film is experienced as a documents "as close as possible to everyday life." "A Day in the Country" is an unfinished masterpiece, based on Guy de Maupassant's short story. It captures the atmosphere and fashions of 1880 through glorious shot compositions and in inspired...
Eighty-two paintings by Renoir, Cezanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Soutine and Matisse, among others...
...friend Louis Scutenaire wrote, "Magritte is a great painter. Magritte is not a painter." He had no interest in what the French called la belle matiere, and when he did essay it -- as in a series of pseudo-pastoral kitsch- classical paintings in the manner of Renoir, done during World War II -- he subverted it; these hot, sluglike nudes are of a brutal vulgarity exceeded only by late Picabia, who may in fact have influenced them...
...Fogg has a well-respected collection of European and North American works, including an impressive Impressionist gallery with a number of Monets. The Fogg also features Jackson Pollack, Picasso, Rembrandt and Renoir, as well as Rodin sculptures and twentieth-century photographs...
...Citizen Kane a box-office blockbuster? Did Jean Renoir get gross profit points on La Grande Illusion? And Fellini, did he go way over budget...