Word: renoirs
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...been going on for centuries. Rembrandt's compassionate paintings of events in the Bible were called rotten, and they sold not at all. Children, incited by their elders, mocked Van Gogh in the streets of Arles. True, many of the world's best painters, from Raphael to Renoir, were ardently embraced by the public even before they died. There have been periods of peace; yet the war continues. This spring it is kicking up a lot of dust. Among the latest skirmishes...
...adjacent apartments into a private museum. In time every inch of wall space (including Dr. Claribel's bathroom) was covered with paintings by Derain, Gauguin, Braque, Cézanne and Matisse. The three-foot-wide corridor and living rooms were crowded with Matisse drawings and with sculpture by Renoir, Degas, Picasso, Maillol and Matisse. The two sisters made about 20 trips to Europe, each time returning with more paintings, heavy furniture and ornate boxes (in which Miss Etta kept laces, Dr. Claribel her unopened mail...
...note at the beginning of The Lower Depths states that before the film was made, Maxim Gorki approved approved the adaptation. Unfortunately for Gorki he praiseworthy aspects of the picture are not 3 result of his lines, but of Jean Renoir's direction and the acting of Louis Jouvet and Jean Gabin...
...film when the adaptation follows the play most closely, interest falls to a dangerous low. Only by some humorous scenes added at the beginning of the picture, by good camera work in the beer-garden scene, and by the killing of the landlord towards the end, does Renoir rescue his material from itself...
...painting was one of several Gauguin hobbies; he also fenced and played billiards. Mette thought Paul's pictures were very pretty and perfectly respectable (at first, they were). The clash came when Paul began buying paintings by a group of eccentrics who were called Impressionists-Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir. They were then looked upon by the French art world as something like a bunch of nudists at a bishop's tea. By the time Mette had borne her third child, father Gauguin had joined the Impressionist club...