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...Like many another Souchon, No. 500 depicted a tropically lush imaginary scene, in which flat, doll-like figures galloped and swayed through a high-pitched bedlam of clangorous color. When the last brush strokes had dried, he carefully stored it away in his files of similarly exuberant Souchons: Van Gogh-like pictures of hot, shadowless Louisiana cornfields, quaint, warm-colored, old-worldly interiors, and fanciful, childlike coloristic riots like The Farm (see cut), in which two bright blue mules sit grotesquely under a clump of bone-bare trees while lambs and pigs gam, bol in the distance...
...paints and draws with desperate passion eerie, flayed-looking nudes, wild-eyed portrait sitters, muddily fantastic landscapes, grotesque figures of saints and demons done in coarse, guttural lines and screaming colors. To connoisseurs, his brooding fantasies are as exciting as the paintings of the Expressionists' idol, Vincent van Gogh...
...this picture since "The Grapes of Wrath" or "The Long Voyage Home." As a sociological document, the scope of its undertaking is gigantic; and happily, Carol Reed and his company are almost everywhere equal to their task. With the epic mundaneness of Sandburg and the brutal candor of Van Gogh, they have captured in word and picture the grim atmosphere of mining life and the grimmer heroism of its day-to-day struggle for survival...
Died. Emile Bernard, 73, one of the last of the French impressionist painters, intimate friend of Paul Gauguin, fellow student of Van Gogh, art critic; in Paris...
...Museum's Egyptian Department, checked temperature and humidity (see cut) to see how Ankh-haef was getting along. The ancient Egyptian bust was part of one of the most comprehensive exhibitions of portraiture ever assembled. Ranging from such 4,550-year-old items to Post-Impressionist Van Gogh, the exhibition covered 45 centuries, included every medium from sculpture to daguerreotypes, every school of portrait painting from Chinese to contemporary U. S. The Boston Museum didn't have to borrow an item for its big show, merely dug into its storerooms...