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Show Ttovlay, Apri 'Fronsh lonjGcapo artist .rpgjolning popularity By UARIIVN AUGUST Associated Press Writer - PARIS Dismissed for decades as a painter of gentle that ended up on calendars -- and greeting cards, Camilie Corot emerges from a new blockbuster show as a masterful portrait artist. Some 150 works on display at the Grand Palais show that the French painter often labeled as the precursor to Impressionism was a complete artist, skilled in nuance, composition and land-scap- es Jean-Baptis- te 19th-centu- ry emotion. The show is the first complete Corot retrospective since his death in 1875, the year after Impressionism was born, and contrasts from that era with muted, understated colors once again in vogue. "Critics tended to snub him because of the enormous popularity he enjoyed during his lifetime," explained Michael Pantazzi, curator from the Ottawa Museum of Fine Arts, a of the show. "Because his paintings wound up on calendars, they were considered banal, prosaic when, in fact, they are very complex." Corot executed more than 300 portraits and exhibited only two of them during his lifetime. No one knows why. for. they capture the quiet melancholy and innocent reverie of his subjects. Young girls, their creamy skin revealed by low-cblouses, stare serenely at the viewer. A bald, bearded monk hunches over a book, his brow furrowed. Corot's mother, the Coco Chanel of her day, is immortalized in middle age, the eyes of the fashion trendsetter averted in poignant surprise. The show, which gathers works from six countries and 45 cities outside France, coincides with the bicentennial of Corot's birth in It opened March 2 and runs through May 27. It is with the Ottawa museum, where it will run June 20 to Sept. 22. and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York where it will be on display Oct. 2 Jan. 19. 1997. Other works come from museums ranging from the Uffizi in Florence to J. Paul Getty in Caliut - 19th-centu- ry 17. 1 -- fornia. Corot was a quiet, diligent artist who produced inore than 3.000 - a ta 0 works during his lifetime. His father, a rich textile dealer, didn't take his son's passion for painting seriously until he earned the prestigious Legion of Honor at age 50. Corot's life was uneventful, yet happy. He lived at home until well into his 50s, venturing out of the familial cocoon for three long sojourns in Italy where he discovered a predilection for olive-- . skinned women with full, sensuous curves. "Their eyes, shoulders, hands and bottoms are superb," he wrote Corot was immensely popular during his lifetime. According to art historians, bad prints of "Souvenir d: Mortefontaine" graced living rooms across the nation. Its fluffy trees, mild sky. bushes, calm waters and small, graceful figures seen through a haze established Corot as the painter of sweetness and innocence. He also was copied widely, and w ith the Grand Palais show, experts say the fakes are coming out of the woodwork. At least 7.000 are currently in circulation. Corot signed many paintings on the eve of his death. According to historians, he even signed a painting he knew to be fake just to light-flecke- I tMOilliaaiOBtWtDAj 3:00 5:00 ISSSSES OF x Es: 1 d tn KL. the idea so he kidnaps the Duchess (the mother cat) and her three kittens and dumps them in the French countryside. That sets off a series of adventures for the Duchess and her brood. Along the way they run into a hip alley cat. Thomas O'Malley. who helps them get back to Paris and also get the best of the evil Edgar. Phil Harris provides the voice of Thoma O'Malley and Eva Garbor supplies the voice of the Duchess. The man doing the words for Roquefort is Sterling Holloway w ho also was the original voice of Winnie the Pooh. Other familiar faces ... uh ... voices include Paul Winchell Cat). (Oriental George "Goober" Lindsey (Lafayette). Scat Man Crothers (Scat Cat) and Nancy Kulp The title tune is sung (Frou-Frou- ). Chev alier. e The animation is and the backgamnds of early 1900s Paris are downright first-rat- beautiful. visitors look at Two Jean-Baptis- Camilla Corot's 'Paysage avec Fig te ures' (Landscape with Figures), also known as "The Bathing" at the Grand Palais museum in Paris in February. Known for years as either the precursor to Impressionism or the fast of the great landscape United Way Volunteer Center artists, Corot emerges from the 150 painting show at the Grand Palais as a masterful and versatile portraitist. ing"), the face, hands and skirt of the young girl blend into the countryside, while the viewer's eye focuses on the shiny purple sleeve of her blouse: help out the ncejdy artist. Among the snow's highlights are "La Femme a la Perle" ("Woman With a Pearl"), which bears an uncanny resemblance to the Mona Lisa. 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Newspapers er "The Aristocats" has never gained the legendary reputation of "Fantasia." "Snow White" and "Bambi," but the movie has a very special place in the history of Disney animation. It was the last such project approved by Wall Disney prior to his death in 1966. Four years later, "The Aristocats" arrived in movie theaters. Counting two subsequent theatrical releases (1980 amd 1987), the film has grosed more than $130 million in box office receipts. During the next few months. "The Aristocats" figures to pull in even more cash for the Disney vaults because this week it is being released on video for the first time. It will carry a suggested retail price of S26.99, but shop around because various outlets will offer the film at a lower price. This is one of those animated features that Disney issues on a limited basis. That means in a few months it will be pulled from release and shelved for several vears. Set in ) Anaff 2AfUI ipg. Tonight 7:00 9:15 TWghtfyStMt3mi.(G) aoioscra ratdtMkWi.iM.tpd I ft Pre, Itak THE DAILY HERALD, By DOUG NYE Knight-Ridd- ing." TOWNE CINEMAS aa", a-- T Corot never married, and although many of his young mistresses wound up on canvas, critics surmise he never fell in love. He did have many friends, sat on salon juries and was admired by critics and colleagues alike. "There is only one master here Corot," Claude Monet once said. "Compared to him. the rest of us are nothing, absolutely noth- Italy. IfH Disney releasing 'Aristocats' on video for the first time in 1835. But Corot's activities never impinged upon the private world of contemplation and reflection in which he lived and which he in his work. sought to He was among the first French painters to take oils and easel outdoors, studying natural light and its effect on the landscape. Yet the scene before him was not sacred. .Corot once told a friend he turned a prairie into a lake "to cool myself off." 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