![]() ![]() Whether the whirl of a dance, the ingratiating bow of a Sunday seducer, or shimmers on an actress’s resplendent dress, each painting preserves not a frozen moment but a movement in an arc of time. Of course, it would be quite enough to say that the small but powerful exhibit features nine glorious paintings, but these works are in fact motion pictures: each of them catches life in dynamic instability. ![]() ![]() Bailey, under the title “ Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting.” It will be playing there through May 13th, and you could say it’s an assemblage of footage-I mean, canvases-by the editor-um, curator-Colin B. The best movie in New York is playing at the Frick Museum, and it’s by Renoir-not the film director Jean Renoir but his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the artist (or, as he preferred to call himself, the “workman of painting”). ![]()
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