Word: renoirs
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...conscious film wonks, alert to Cinema History, will notice something new in this use of Cinemascope: it seems uniquely uninfluenced by Hollywood wide-screen, model of New Wave Americanophiles like Chabrol and Vadim. Bunuel's vision of provincial France seems rather an extension into modern times of the native Renoir tradition of lighting and composition...
...Matisse was on the verge of becoming a lawyer when--like Degas and Manet before him--he abandoned the law to paint. Matisse came to Paris in 1891 and found it vibrating with artistic activity. Seurat and Van Gogh had died only a few years before and Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Lautrec, Redon, Henri Rousseau, and Rodin were very much alive and active in the city. During his first years in Paris, Matisse studied with Gustave Moreau who was unprejudiced against experimental art even though known work was a continuation of Delacroix along traditional lines. With Moreau's encouragement, Matisse...
...lived a full family life until her death in 1926. Her parents, sisters, nephews and nieces were always visiting her villa on the Riviera, her Paris flat or chateau near Beauvais. Even in her old age, she had a prim, acerbic wit: she found Monet too unintelligent, criticized Renoir's lusty art as too "animal," scorned the generation of the cubists as "cafe loafers...
...industrialist's daughter named Juliette Lacaze, asked her to change her name to Domenica in celebration of the day-Sunday-on which they met. Together they formed a collection based on their strong convictions as to who was and who was not important. Their apartment was filled with Renoir but not Braque. Derain but not Leger, Matisse but not Chagall. All but one of their Picassos were "classic period" nudes...
...Jeannette an air of repose and permanence. Andre Derain's Girl with Long Hair has gained a depth of dimension it never had in France's Chardin Gallery, and the razor-sharp shadows endow Henry Moore's prowlike Standing Figure with a new monumentality. As for Renoir's Venus Triumphant, with her well-rounded grace she looked ready for installation above it all in the Parthenon itself...