Word: fragonard
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...thin as soap bubbles', just tight enough to create a sense of release when bursts of red or yellow pop them. You sense that this is the bouncing, eternal line of freedom and pleasure, one that traces back to the airborne arcs of those young women on swings in Fragonard...
...supermodels, each decked out as a vision of an artist who had somehow touched Christian Dior's life and spirit. Linda Evangelista in an evocative deep wine taffeta dress a la Caravaggio. Naomi Campbell inspired by Alma-Tadema. There was a pink confection that looked right out of a Fragonard, Amber Valetta in pale blue, a portrait of Renoir. Each dress more elaborate and evocative than the first. Galliano called it a Bal des Artistes, in keeping with Dior's great love of art and his friendships with artists like Jean Cocteau. For Galliano, it was also a celebration...
...villa) offers one of the most romantic walks in Europe. It winds through luxuriant wooded paths, natural grottoes and ancient ruins, and leads to a spectacular 120-m waterfall. The landscape, featuring 2nd century B.C. architecture, inspired such 17th and 18th century artists as Nicolas Poussin and Jean-Honor? Fragonard, and became a must-see stop on the Grand Tour. Later, Villa Gregoriana was admired as much for its role in averting floods as for its natural beauty...
...offers one of the most romantic walks in Europe. It winds through luxuriant wooded paths, natural grottoes and ancient ruins, and leads to a spectacular 120-m waterfall. The landscape, featuring 2nd century B.C. architecture, inspired such 17th and 18th century artists as Nicolas Poussin and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and became a must-see stop on the Grand Tour. Later, Villa Gregoriana was admired as much for its role in averting floods as for its natural beauty. The flood-prone Aniene River washed away a good part of inhabited Tivoli in 1826, so Pope Gregory XVI, as sovereign...
Each vignette offers its own special pleasures. In the first, a dancing tableau-vivant of the Fragonard painting The Girl on the Swing, brings a disarmingly bawdy and slapstick flair to the more subdued trappings of the period. The second, which whimsically documents the liberation fantasies of a 1950s housewife, manages to disperse comic relief so widely that the result is not tragedy punctuated by humor but a remarkably entertaining dose of bittersweet...