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...things Japan has lost since its economic bubble popped 12 years ago - the van Goghs, Rockefeller Center, national confidence - add one more: the comforting, all-accepted platitude. You don't hear the whens, hows or ifs of economic recovery anymore: the unspoken question these days is whether some seismic collapse is on the near horizon. Lifetime employment, a pillar of the Japanese miracle, has been supplanted by the specter of lifetime underemployment for today's twentysomethings and brutally early retirement for the salarymen who rose out of that rubble. A lot of Japanese are shaking their heads and muttering, "Times...
...clash of temperament and artistic style, a dream of artistic brotherhood soured by jealousy and the desire to assert dominance. That is the subtext of a major exhibition opening in Amsterdam this month tracing the relationship between Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, two of the 19th century's greatest painters. The nine weeks the two men spent together in southern France in 1888 culminated in one of the most dramatic events in the history of modern art: Van Gogh slicing off a piece of his ear after a quarrel with Gauguin...
...relationship has been the subject of numerous books and films, but the current exhibition is the first time the story has been presented in its most obvious form: via their paintings. There are 106 exhibits in the Amsterdam show, including many of the two artists' most famous masterpieces. The Van Gogh Museum has contributed 25 paintings; the rest come from museums and private collections in the U.S., Japan, Russia and elsewhere in Europe...
Though the exhibition debuted at the Art Institute of Chicago at the end of last year (where it was overshadowed by the events of Sept. 11), the Amsterdam version is unique partly because it includes three versions of Van Gogh's famous Sunflowers, which are placed side by side for the first time. The earliest, oil on canvas, comes from London's National Gallery and was painted in August 1888 as part of Van Gogh's preparations for Gauguin's arrival at the Yellow House in Arles, where the Dutch painter hoped to create an artists' commune. The second Sunflowers...
After his dramatic departure from Arles in December 1888 following the quarrel that took part of Van Gogh's ear, Gauguin asked if he could have the original Sunflowers. Van Gogh refused, instead painting a replica, the third on display, in which the flowers are less natural and realistic. Apparently, he was trying to adapt his style to appeal to Gauguin. But they remained very different artists, as the exhibition illuminates. They were in the same town, with the same model or scene before them, the same materials at their disposal. Despite traces of similarity, the results are unmistakably Van...