Word: rouen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...despite the unenviable distinction of being "the last of ... ," paints intensely beautiful scenes that could have been painted any time in the last 100 years but not by anyone else. They are timeless without that overly decorous and rather anonymous look of the Binets. "Bords de Seine pres de Rouen" is a painting with the classic Impressionist theme--the play of air, light and water--that is a gorgeous and glowing juxtaposition of summery pinks, oranges, turquoises and golds with a twilight wintry landscape of muted purples and greys. "Neige a Limesy" is the only one of Malet's works...
...glimpse of viewers as preoccupied with each other's reactions to art as with the art itself. The paintings on exhibit include 10 works rarely seen in this country by the Post-Impressionist Georges Binet (1865-1949) and a rich collection of recent works by the 65-year-old Rouen artist, Albert Malet, who has been called "the last of the Impressionists." The paintings are very different in spirit but alike in quality; this is a small exhibition, but you will want to linger long...
...spread of the 17-scene Apocalypse from the Château d'Angers, which is the greatest surviving tapestry of the 14th century-and has never been lent to a museum, in or out of France, before. Treasure succeeds treasure: the elegant 15th century Winged Stags from Rouen, the crowded jigsaw scenes from the Trojan War, and-as a bonus-the two most famous allegorical cycles in all 15th century tapestry, here exhibited together for the first time: the Lady with the Unicorn series from the Cluny Museum in Paris and the Hunt of the Unicorn from the Cloisters...
...exhibition forever annihilates the notion of Duchamp as enfant terrible breaking windows in the temple of art. From the beginning, Marcel, the son of an haul bourgeois notary in Rouen, was recognized as a prodigy. At 17 he joined his brothers in Paris to study art; in a 1904 work his technique already reveals a mature painter under the heavy, almost suffocating influence of the past. Even The Chess Players (1911) bears the shadow of Cezanne in its formal palette and in the calculated arrangement of figures. The rebel remains disguised in traditional tones−or in the Fauvists...
Washington was pleased at the outcome, although it would have preferred a stronger performance by nonleftist center parties led by Publisher Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Rouen Mayor Jean Lecanuet, who do not share the Gaullists' traditionally prickly attitudes toward the Common Market, NATO and the Atlantic alliance. Though the centrists emerged with a disappointing 31 seats in the Assembly, the Gaullists have been suggesting that they might be offered a role in the new government. In a testy post-election TV appearance, Lecanuet made a bitter reply: "We ask nothing. You have no need...