Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Camille Pissarro Haymakers Resting painting

Camille Pissarro Haymakers Resting paintingCamille Pissarro Bather in the Woods paintingWilliam Etty The Duet paintingWilliam Etty Penitent Magdalen painting
Reynerd sat with his hands palms-down on his thighs, licking his lips, as though he might reach for a salty treat at any moment.With a nod to indicate the frozen image on the TV, the actor said, “That’s the perfect medium for me. I was born too late. I should have lived back then.”“When’s that?” Hazard asked, for he them with a powerful illusion of substance and complexity.”“You, on the other hand—”“I, on the other hand, am wide and deep and so alive to begin with that the further enhancement of modern film technology puts me over the top, makes a caricature of me.”“That must be frustrating,” Hazard commiserated.knew that suspects often revealed the most when they seemed to be rambling.“The 1930s and ’40s. When all films were black-and-white. I’d have been a star in those days.”“Is that right?”“I’m too strong a personality for color films. I explode off the screen. I overwhelm the medium, the audience.”“I can see where that would be a problem.”“In the color era, the most successful stars have all been flat personalities, shallow. They’re an inch wide, half an inch deep.”“And why is that?”“The color, the depth of field made possible by modern cameras, surround-sound technology—all that stuff makes flat personalities bigger than

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