Word: utrillo
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...stand back and squint, you might think you were looking at paintings by, say, Utrillo or Vlaminck - delicate streetscapes suffused with morning light and dusky melancholy. Indeed, those artists, along with Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Derain, were among Atget's contemporary admirers. The Surrealists adopted him as one of their own, enchanted by his gaudy fairgrounds and prostitutes, his near-abstract depictions of stonework and staircases, and the way he sometimes reflected his own image in store windows. Later photographic greats - Edward Weston, Walker Evans, Ansel Adams - admired his ability to combine straightforward documentation with almost painterly finesse...
...sturdier Soupy Sales). He gives a lot of cross-species personality to his villains. He draws the Ephors as pigmen with pigment. And Ephialtes is Miller's Gollum: misshapen in body and mind, eager to please, susceptible to bribes. His battles are grandly realized, with dark splashes of Utrillo. The whole thing is the smartest rendering of a klassics komic book, which the movie basically dupes, down to the last frame. It's a virtual Xerxes Xerox...
...inspiration for) the original show. Darn it, he?d do his own darn ballet. Similarly, he honored and caricatured the great gallery of Impressionist paintings in the ballet for "An American in Paris" - this time starting from scratch, and inhabiting the vivid worlds of Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Dufy and Utrillo. The last words in the film are spoken almost 20 minutes before it ends; from then on it?s all ballet and mime on the grand movie canvas, popular art swaggering toward an embrace with high...
...killed himself in a fit of despair over his art at the age of 30 in 1928 -- a strange freak of reputation for a painter whose work seems not much more than sensitive pastiche of those two archbores of the Ecole de Paris, Maurice de Vlaminck and Maurice Utrillo...
...cute or kitschy, like the truckloads of pseudonaive painting that would sprout from Montmartre to Haiti after his death. They have their period charm; you have to love his dirigibles and Wright biplanes creakily copied from postcards. But most of his city and country scenes are as platitudinous as Utrillo...