We take as the subject of tonight’s lecture the great painter at the vanguard of the French Splatter-school Action- group, Mr. Moses Rosenthaler. Widely celebrated, as you know, for the bold, dramatic style and colossal scale of his middle-period -- in particular, of course, the polyptych-tableaux known as “Ten Reinforced Cement Aggregate (Load- bearing) Murals” -- he remains, in my opinion, the most eloquent (and, certainly, the loudest) artistic voice of his rowdy generation.
The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)
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The exhibition “Ashtrays, Pots, and Macramé” (a group show of handicrafts by amateur artisans incarcerated in the lunatic section of the Ennui Prison/ Asylum) might, perhaps, have been omitted from the annals of art history had it not been for the inclusion in its number of a small painting by Mr. Rosenthaler (who was, at that time, serving a fifty year sentence for the crime of double- homicide), and the observation of that work by a fellow inmate, the Levantine art dealer Mr. Julian Cadazio (who, by fateful coincidence, happened to be imprisoned in the adjoining annex on a charge of second-degree sales tax evasion).
scene 12 — INT. PRISON CAFETERIA. DAYThe Ennui Salon.
scene 19 — INT. HEARING CHAMBER. DAYNevertheless, Cadazio and his uncles were unanimous in their decision to promote the artist as his exclusive brokers throughout the free world.
scene 19 — INT. HEARING CHAMBER. DAYA dynamic, talented, lusty, slovenly, alcoholic, violent pack of creative savages. They inspired and, often, personally attacked each other for two decades and more. (I’ll have my drink now.)
scene 21 — INT. EXECUTION THEATRE. DAYI’ll contact him early tomorrow morning, “Maw”.
scene 25 — INT. RECREATION ROOM. NIGHT
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“The French Dispatch”. Previously known as “Picnic”.