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...skilled principal players interestingly suggest real people; notably good is Robert Ryan as a competent but unsophisticated man who gets involved with very bad companions. With an urgent score by Hanns Eisler, Director Jean Renoir has concocted a climax in which two men quarrel at the top of their lungs against the deafening sound of squally water and orchestral fortissimo. To balance such experiments, which smack of artiness, Renoir has thrown in some solid domestic naturalism and an excellently staged Coast Guardsmen's dance. Best of all, he has eloquently suited the pale visual tone of the film...
...When Renoir wrote those words (in 1882) his deft blottings pleased his impressionist friends but not himself. Like Monet, Sisley and Pissarro, Renoir had learned to see nature as a dazzling cobweb of colored light, where the shapes of things melt and blend like mist. But at 40 the spare, scraggle-bearded painter grew suddenly sick of mistiness, went digging for solid forms. He became a student again, and spent the next two years in life classes, learning to draw...
Last week some of the A-plus results came out in book form (Renoir Drawings, Bittner; $15). Renoir's freshman efforts were a touch too perfect-for a while he tried to imitate the exactitude of Ingres -but by his sophomore year the middle-aged master's drawings were true-to-life and also true to the principles which had been formulated by Poet Charles Baudelaire : "A good drawing is not a hard, cruel, motionless line enclosing a form like a straitjacket. Drawing should be like nature, living and restless. . . . Nature shows us an endless series of-curved...
...pink and purple Bathers was among Renoir's first postgraduate masterpieces. It took hundreds of preparatory drawings and three years of painting to finish, but with The Bathers Renoir got around to combining his new-found "living and restless" line and the vibrant, light-filled color which impressionism had given...
...long since holed up in a cluttered Rome studio to wait out modern art. Nowadays the aging (58) Italian master blushes at the melancholy fantasies-full of staring colonnades, long black five-o'clock shadows, twisted manikins-which made him famous. He had since passed through a Renoir period, a Titian-Tintoretto period and into a Salvator Rosa period...