Word: renoirs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Toulouse-Lautrec, after an earlier run at London's Hayward Gallery, rounds off the great series of overviews of 19th century French artists given us by French, American and English museums over the past 15 years. Every one of these -- Manet, Courbet, Cezanne, Seurat, Monet, even the disappointing Renoir -- has altered the way one thinks about the achievements of French art and deeply revised one's view of the individual painters. The Toulouse-Lautrec show, curated by an English art historian, Richard Thomson, and two French ones, Claire Freches-Thory and Anne Roquebert of the Musee d'Orsay...
...will not allow sociopolitical agendas to stand primary in the interpretation of art. Of Renoir, Berger writes, "Feminist reasoning applied retrospectively to Renoir is too easy." Feminists might play up Renoir quotes like "the best exercise for a woman is to kneel down and scrub the floor" without bothering to uncover the profound and across-the-board fearful fanaticism of which that quote is only one facet. Berger effectively warns us not to let our methodologies for "seeing" obstruct our sight...
...dancing. While the two top couples from the former Soviet Union favor exacting, classical lines, Isabelle likens the Duchesnays' effect to "picking up a pail of paint and going splash, splash." The appeal of the two styles is strikingly different. "One is a Picasso, the other a Renoir," says Isabelle. These days a jarring number of other competitors also want to be Picasso...
They came by the hundreds last week, creating limo-lock on Georgetown's elegant N Street. They gossiped under the Renoir and the Van Gogh in Pamela Harriman's salon. They sipped their Chablis in tribute to one of this age's truly great Democrats, Clark Clifford, and his new book, Counsel to the President, the story of a half-century of political grandeur. But one prominent Democrat, looking beyond the evening's scheduled gaiety, said, "We are witnessing the greatest eclipse of a political party in this country in our history...
...mourning for their loved ones. At the end, Noiret sends a poignant love letter to Azema; the experience has made them a couple, perfectly matched but sadly unfulfilled. Tavernier, an ebullient bear of a man, is very much in the spirit of France's patron-saint director, Jean Renoir. In this monumental meditation on love in a time of war, Tavernier has made his own Rules of the Game...