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Seurat's paintings [Jan. 20] reminded me of a famed pathologist at the University of Michigan who occasionally gave lectures on "pathology in art," whimsically pointing out the "acres and acres of adipose tissue" painted by the Flemish artists. With this in mind, Seurat's immaculate technique, when applied to the representation of nudes, is suggestive of the measles, or worse, smallpox, or even the French pox derived from the older days of the bordellos of the Left Bank. These features of speculative pathology are, of course, lost in the Seurat landscapes...
...story is told with the luminous sincerity that haloes most of what Dreyer does. He has a deeper sympathy with the burgher virtues, a higher sense of the prosperous interior than almost any artist since the Flemish Renaissance; his frames impart the spiritual light of common things. And he can paint for the ear as well as for the eye; when suddenly the sound track fills with singing birds and a music of axles, bright September blows into the theater, tingling in the thoughts like merry harvest weather. Director Dreyer loves the human face ("A land one can never tire...
...girls appeared excellently drilled. The Choral Society did not fare so well for most of the remainder of the evening, the Sopranos in particular being somewhat thin and ofttimes shrill. The group sang Mabel Daniels' new Carol of a Rose. The selection, with words from a fifteenth century Flemish poem, was quite unexciting. The highpoint of the Choral Society's performance was a full and lively rendition of Schubert's Valses Nobles, Op. 77. The first sopranos maintained a pleasant pitch, the second sporanos did not get lost in the altos, and the results were enjoyable...
Through the door a quiet young man was talking about Flemish tiles. "They're very old, and each one is different," he said, looking up from the floor to the walls. The somber group of prospective candidates looked up with him. The walls were covered with Flemish tiles; each seemed different and they looked very old indeed. The young man called their attention to the heavy wood cabinets against the walls as well: "They are also very old," he said, looking down at the floor again...
...paintings included Rembrandt's Old Man Seated, Rubens' Flight Into Egypt, Flemish Dierick Bouts' The Annunciation and outstanding canvases by Corot, Degas, Boucher, Guardi, Fragonard, Frans Hals, Van Dyck, Manet, Monet, Renoir. Eventually Gulbenkian made the same offer he had made London: all the pictures free forever-if the gallery built a special Gulbenkian annex to house them. With regret the National Gallery refused, stuck grimly to the rule that its permanent works be displayed by schools and periods, not by collectors...