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...national recognition without ever achieving the international fame of the masters who influenced his work. For years, Farndon heightened his sense of the delicate harmony of pastel pinks, blues and light greens that modified the color scales made popular by such notables as Monet and the atmospheric exuberance of Renoir before darkening his palette to imitate the growing popularity of the post-impressionists...
...state secret, and Piotrovsky himself did not see any of them until 1992. Piotrovsky plans to put 70 of the paintings on view in a major exhibition next March. He gave out no list, but among them are thought to be works by Van Gogh, Monet and Renoir. The star of the show -- as far as anyone knows -- is to be one of Edgar Degas's finest paintings, listed as "presumed destroyed" in studies written since 1945 and known only through a black-and-white photograph: Place de la Concorde (1875), stolen from the Gerstenberg collection in Berlin...
...wambling brushstrokes; the color -- mostly pink -- is bright and boring. Yet you could never write De Kooning off. He came back in the late '70s with some big, rapturously congested landscape-body images with a deeper tonal structure that, though they do not support the comparisons to late Monet, Renoir, Bonnard "and, of course, Titian" that David Sylvester makes in his catalog essay, certainly confirm that the movement of De Kooning's talent was not on-off, but ebb and flow...
...Best Foreign Film, is a very ^ funny movie. Yes, really. For there's a little bit of Luis Bunuel nestled in the heart of every Spaniard, something at once black and farcical, and director Fernando Trueba is no exception. He also loves the sun-splashed romanticism of Jean Renoir; the film's cheerful look, its air of bemused wonder at the things people do when the time is right for frolic, is a homage to that most civilized of directors...
...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...