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Expectations are that the interest aroused by the exhibition of the art of Paul Gauguin; modern French painter, which opened yesterday at the Fogg Museum, will be comparable to that which was stirred up by the Van Gogh exhibition in Boston last winter...
...truly fitting that the Gauguin exhibit should follow that of Van Gogh, for the two artists were kindred spirits in the world of art. Both at the end of the nineteenth century led the way out of the cramping formula of Impressionism and to both color was a means of expressing feeling and thought...
...basic difference between the painting of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin is that Artist van Gogh strove to put on canvas the rocketing pinwheels and gaudy flashes constantly exploding in his aching head, whereas Gauguin, whose head throbbed with the same painful lunacy, sought to escape from it in his work. His best pictures have the dark rich colors of Persian rugs. They are as carefully composed as Chinese paintings. Despite the difficulty of obtaining raw materials in the South Seas, he produced more pictures than van Gogh. Many of Gauguin's later pictures were done on prepared...
...Camille Pissarro. In 1887 he suddenly deserted wife, family and the stock exchange, skipped to the West Indies to paint. Back in Paris after a few months, he had an exhibition that was a failure, moved on to a Brittany fishing village, met the equally erratic Vincent van Gogh, went to live with him at Aries...
...Vincent van Gogh, Novelist Irving Stone wrote Lust jor Life (1934). Of Paul Gauguin, Novelist Somerset Maugham wrote The Moon and Sixpence (1919), which by last week had sold over 84,000 copies in the U. S. alone...