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...most beautiful women. The most spectacular picture is The Lute Player, painted by Caravaggio circa 1596 when he was only 23. No artist who saw its hard-lined reality, its dramatic lighting, its thrusting composition (the lute's throat almost reaches across the table to the viewer's eye), ever painted quite the same again...
...life, meet one another in a Madrid cafe. The complexity of the man is revealed through characters who share common memories but cannot sort out the truth from the self-perpetuated myth. There's a showdown: the legendary man against himself, depicted so clearly by Hunter that the viewer is made aware of elements of the hell Hemingway must have been going through just prior to the taking of his own life...
...hunts with the hounds." Baying through this Russian blizzard of hilarity, Woody Allen, former rabbit, is at least trying to create a beagle. The fact that most of the time it comes out bagel should not discourage him. In any Allen film there can be only one winner: the viewer. · Stefan Kanfer...
...safety it provides. The menace so cunningly created and enlarged comes close enough to have caused loud screams and small tremors of terror at pre-release screenings. Yet Jaws is vicarious, not vicious, a fantasy far more than an assault. It is a dread dream that weds the viewer's own apprehensions with the survival of the heroes. It puts everyone in harm's way and brings the audience back alive. And in Jaws, the only thing you have to fear is fear itself...
...Ives, Cornwall. A fellow traveler with the small band of venturesome Britons-including Sculptor Henry Moore and her second husband, Painter Ben Nicholson-who pioneered abstract art in the 1930s, Hepworth established her trademark in 1931 when she pierced a hole in a small carving to seize the viewer's eye. "I thought it was a small miracle," she later recalled. "A new vision was opened." Holes and hollows, sometimes painted to accentuate their depth, turned up in most of her 500 sculptures, among them such characteristically involuted, smoothly chiseled figures as Kneeling, Winged Figure, and Single Form...