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...student works, illustrations of popular song, or demonstrations of social issues in nineteenth-century Paris,” Sarah Kianovsky, assistant curator of Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Fogg, writes in the show’s essay. By contrast, this exhibition seeks to allow the viewer to see Toulouse Lautrec’s portraits untainted by his more famous prints and to focus instead on the intimacy and vulnerability of the subjects and the intense relationship between painter and subject...
...paintings. The earliest of the six paintings, “Carmen Gaudin” (1884) is a formal, stark portrayal of the redheaded model, who wears a black dress and poses against a black background. She is not confrontational; her gaze falls somewhere above the head of the viewer. In “Carmen Gaudin in the Artist’s Studio” (1888), the subject stares directly at the viewer from a seat in a room cluttered with colorful canvases and furniture, wearing a white blouse, with her hands folded in her lap. The juxtaposition...
...combination of vigilance and numbness was illustrated by a local TV channel's decision to run a split screen after a suicide bombing: on one side were body parts and ambulances, on the other a soccer match. That way, no viewer missed any of the action on either front...
...gave Hollywood's top stars their finest, fullest roles: Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Barbara Stanwyck (Double Indemnity), Gloria Swanson (Sunset Blvd.), Audrey Hepburn (Sabrina and Love in the Afternoon), Marilyn Monroe (Some Like It Hot), Jack Lemmon (The Apartment and six others). And what was in it for the viewer? Roiling dramatic dilemmas, complex adult characters and, memorably, some of the tastiest slices of dialogue in movie history. That was the icing on Wilder's cake...
...with an ultra-tight focus on youth and their contradictory (and sometimes tragic) need to belong in society and simultaneously forge individual identities. The unhappy news is that an overwhelming number of the films were more trial than triumph, explorations of anxiety, guilt and alienation that inspired in the viewer alienation and a recurring anxiety that something has gone terribly wrong with the direction of Asian cinema...