De ontkenning van de heilige Petrus

Gerrit van Honthorst
oil on canvas, c. 1623
Minneapolis Institute of Art

American Vernacular

Walker Evans
© Metropolitan Museum of Art

Max Ernst 127

Photograph of Ernst and Leonora Carrington by Lee Miller, c. 1939

Remedios Varo 109

María de los Remedios Alicia Rodriga Varo y Uranga
16 December 1908 – 8 October 1963

Leigh in Shakespeare

Hamlet, 1937

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 1937

Romeo and Juliet, 1940

Richard III, 1948

Antony and Cleopatra, 1951

Macbeth, 1955

Titus Andronicus, 1955

Twelfth Night, 1955

“Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one’s place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea – one swims where one wants.”

–Vivien Leigh

Blanche DuBois

Behind the scenes of A Streetcar Named Desire

Vivien Leigh 104

Behind the scenes of Gone With the Wind

If forced to choose I would have to assert that Vivien Leigh was the greatest screen actress of all time, and that two roles alone suffice to demonstrate her preeminence: Scarlett O’Hara and Blanche DuBois. In these two colossal performances she towers above other players like a terrible goddess amid muttering drabs. She was also among the loveliest to look upon. Her feminine charms were naturally superlative but it was her tender smile and the light in her eyes, surviving age and unhappiness, that were so touching and unforgettable.