Word: gauguins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film is best when it places the scenes that inspired Van Gogh next to sweeping CinemaScopic closeups of his paintings. Actor Kirk Douglas (whose natural red beard makes him look astonishingly like Van Gogh's self-portrait) and Anthony Quinn (splendid as the swaggering Paul Gauguin) at times manage to catch what Van Gogh called "the high yellow note" of painting intensity and the "electric arguments" about art which Van Gogh wrote left them "with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it is discharged." The film captures the fierce drive and bitter tragedy in the life...
...gallery, Durand-Ruel. the first major Pissarro show in Paris for 30-odd years, goes far to clear and enhance Pissarro's reputation. He was the most impressionable of the impressionists, a painter who influenced a host of painters from Cezanne to Van Gogh and Gauguin, then had the sensitivity and malleability to be influenced by them in turn. The full sweep of Pissarro's lifetime output, ranging from an early landscape done in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, where he was born in 1830 (into a mixed French-Portuguese-Jewish family), to his self-portrait done the year...
...Gauguin, who made his break into art under Pissarro's tutelage, said in later years: "He looked at everybody, you say! Why not? Everyone looked at him, too, but denied him. He was one of my masters, and I do not deny him." "Perhaps we all come from Pissarro," added Cezanne, who early worked under...
...great painter, he was a master draftsman. Even in the madhouse, he drew a set of circus pictures with a ringmaster's eye for a false move. His latest biographers (husband-and-wife team of Lawrence and Elisabeth Hanson, who have also done Gauguin and Van Gogh) have sketched a watercolor rather than a lithograph. But they are at pains to correct the legend fixed in the moviegoing imagination by Actor José Ferrer in Moulin Rouge of pet and amateur pimp to the madams and sporting types of Montmartre. Dwarfed Henri was not a refugee from a name...
...world that Zorach discovered abroad was bubbling with the new ideas and brilliant colors of painters like Matisse and Gauguin. "Before I realized it, I was as wild as the rest," Zorach recalls. To his astonishment, he had four paintings accepted in the Paris Salon d'Automne of 1910. While in Paris he also met his artist wife, Marguerite Thompson, granddaughter of a New Bedford whaling captain. They returned to Manhattan just in time for each to hang a painting in the 1913 Armory Show that introduced the U.S. to modern...