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...vibrant rhythms of his brush linked him to the swirling style of art nouveau, but what in that art was precious and affected became in Munch a swirl of passion, often equal to that of Van Gogh. One of his first major paintings, inspired by the death of a sister, was called The Sick Child, and all his life sickness and death, suffering and fear were to be his themes. His people could cry out and the sky would seem torn apart. They might wander blankly down a street, eyes sick with anxiety, together but each alone. Few artists have...
...prints and paintings Hayter shuns surface reality for an internal image or mood. He starts a painting with some sort of bold weblike line which runs all through the canvas, suggesting as it goes interlocking fields of color, vibrant intersections, the feeling of movement and force. He may use only three colors in a painting, but the interlacing and crisscrossing give a sense of many more. In the end. the painting becomes a generalized statement of intangibles-the rush of water, the cool darkness of a forest, the silent chemistry of day dissolving into night...
...captured farmhouses, fishing villages, animals and people in muted colors of luminous clarity. He had a sense of structure that both Seurat and Cezanne admired, but he was more interested in the surface of nature than in its interior turbulence. His quiet scenes were sometimes a bit melancholy, sometimes vibrant with a profound...
...FAUVES, by Jean-Paul Crespelle (365 pp.; New York Graphic Society; $25). The 100 color plates in this superb collection are by far the best reproductions offered this year, and it is fitting that they should be, since shocking, vibrant use of color was what earned the school of Les Fauves (The Wild Beasts) its name. The painters are Matisse, Rouault, Derain, Braque, Dufy...
...lonely press-maligned monopolist (Henry Daniell). The wet cardboard will not ignite. Only Charles Boyer, the actor, ignites. He is a fountain of eternal charm, a foxy grandpa of stage presence, an animated bundle of Continental gestures who makes the typical U.S. actor seem about as vibrant as a hat tree...