Word: renoirs
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...accomplishing this alienation from the sacred reality of art cannot be prescribed: if sacred ones can be exploited, so much the better. . . I am simply leading up in all of this to the spectacle of Bo Widerberg, whose ultimately romantic style descends directly from the painting of Pierre Auguste Renoir, ruling-class lackey and who exists as a radical filmmaker, quite apart from Jean-Lue Godard...
...stark religiosity. Bergman's artificial lighting comes almost invariably form on high to dramatize each Meaningful Truth (or Mystery) revealed by a superior Creator, and, for all the virtues of this kind of film (and there are, I suppose a few), it "expresses an "apolitical." i.c. elitist sensibility. Renoir-like democratic luminosity contrasts quite strongly, conveying a more horizontal conception of relationships between men, and whereas Widerberg realizes that this impressionism is just as mythical, he chooses to work on it and expose it. because, far more than Bergman's this style applies to the currently accepted myths of equality...
...price Mellon paid was not officially disclosed, but it was no secret that it was the highest ever for a French painting. Reliable sources put it at $1,600,000 -$50,000 more than Norton Simon paid for Renoir's Le Pont des Arts in 1968. It reflected-and will encourage -the hugely inflated prices collectors seem willing to pay for Impressionist and post-Impressionist painting...
Throughout the film there is the discomforting contrast between savagery and soft pastel colors, much as if Renoir had painted an execution. Chabrol's talent is very nearly matched by that of his wife Stephane, who gives touching depth to the role of the existential Gallic heroine...
...friend of all the 20th century artists." The works of these friends were assembled by him for Actor Edward G. Robinson's justly celebrated collection. He proudly shows visitors black and white photographs of the Cézanne Paysage de Provence he sold to Robert Lehman, the Renoir bought by David Rockefeller, the Monet that went to Paul Mellon, the Bonnard, Redon and Cézanne he sold to New York's Metropolitan Mu seum...