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...Gift. A stylistic tour d'esprit that is the most original U.S. movie released so far in 1962. Subject: a creative crisis in the life of a middle-aged painter. Director: a 35-year-old commercial artist named Herbert Danska. Length: 40 minutes. Production cost...
...Touch" signs beside the paintings in the gallery were put up to discourage visitors who are sure that some of Bohrod's realism is collage. Though he denies being a trompe l'oeil painter, Bohrod stands as an eye-fool tower of strength to other long-thwarted realists. To jeers of "get a camera," Bohrod replies that the camera is a wonderful eye, but it has no guiding brain, heart or soul...
Finally he turns up one of her old boy friends, a shy and impecunious painter (Leopoldo Trieste). The baron lures the fellow to his house, hires him to restore some murals, asks his wife to supervise the work, rigs a tape recorder to take down what they say, sits down in the next room, loudspeaker on and automatic oiled, to see what happens. Well, what happens is hilarious, and keeps right on being hilarious until the lovers are dead and the baron, his time served, comes home a hero and weds the woman of his heart. As the film ends...
...Boston early in July 1817, four months after he had taken office in his first term, and while he was on a trip inspecting military installations. The Essex Register of Salem, Mass., in an item from Boston dated July 10. 1817, reported (using a sometime spelling of the painter's name): "Early the last three mornings, previous to his departure, the President has had sittings at Mr. Stewart's room." The Newburyport Herald later shed more light on the trouble a President would take to reach a painter in that era: ";A few days after the arrival...
...Painter Stuart, who always stubbornly insisted on putting to canvas exactly what he saw, also left behind a stern point of view that can serve journalists as well as painters. To a proud husband who complained that Stuart had failed to capture his wife's elusive beauty, the artist replied: "What damned business is this of a portrait painter? You bring him a potato and expect he will paint a peach...