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...Gift, made for $3,123.17 by a 35-year-old commercial artist named Herbert Danska, describes with graceful obliquity a creative crisis in the life of a painter. Undoubtedly the most original U.S. movie released this year...
...gentle a painter, George Inness was occasionally a trial. When his father, a Newark merchant, got him a job in a store, young George hid from the customers until the customers ceased to come. He worked with a map-making outfit for a while, quit in a huff, then returned and quit again. Finally, he settled down to painting, with just enough sales and help from patrons to support himself and his growing family...
...loves the swirling imbalance of the baroque, its angular geometry and its chiaroscuro effects. Certain of his street scenes would do credit to a landscape painter: complex diagonals draw the eye into the background. But the dramatic action of many of these scenes centers in the foreground so that the viewer must decided what to concentrate on: the drama or the beautiful, but extraneous street scene...
...Gift, made for $3,123.17 by a 35-year-old commercial artist named Herbert Danska, describes with graceful obliquity a creative crisis in the life of a painter. Undoubtedly the most original U.S. movie released this year...
...sketch for the cover was done from life in the Vatican by Italian Artist Pietro Annigoni (who painted last January's Man of the Year cover of John F. Kennedy). The painter's reaction to the Pope: "So nice, so simple, so direct, so close to you . . . and yet so terribly distant. Even the simplest conversation with him ended with a few words putting you in front of Eternity...