Word: artistically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woefully lacking in class consciousness, Artist Ganso would rather paint a pair of buttocks than all the breadlines on the Bowery. For years his artistic idol and best friend was Jules Pascin. Artist Pascin specialized in painting naughty little girls in pale misty colors with a spidery delicate line...
Ganso's nudes are more frankly sensuous than those of Pascin, his color is stronger, his line less subtle. Jealous rivals have called him the "Rembrandt of barroom decorators."* As a matter of fact, no barroom yet boasts a Ganso nude, and Artist Ganso is quite as interested in painting the rolling hills, farms and orchards of Woodstock, N. Y., where he spends his summers, as he is in the lush ladies who pose for him in the winter time in Manhattan...
Best of the Ganso nudes exhibited last week was the figure of a young model seated by a tea table, a black lace scarf thrown over her shoulders (see cut). Shrewdly Artist Ganso has repeated the tawny color of her skin in the tan walls, the rich brown of the floor. Other pictures that stopped gallerygoers: two young women lying side by side on a lake shore, one nude, the other dressed only in silk stockings & pumps; and the back view of a plump female sprawled on a divan. A Guggenheim Fellowship and many exhibition prizes have come to Artist...
Under a sheet upstairs lay the bloody body of Vincent van Gogh minus one ear. Artist van Gogh was not dead but in a cataleptic trance. He had cut off his own ear by way of self-punishment. Paul Gauguin had had nothing to do with it beyond the fact that he had spent Christmas Eve in his friend's company. The two lived to rank among the greatest of French modernists. Both were mouse-poor and half-insane when they died. Both have been made the protagonists of best-selling novels.* Last week Manhattan's Wildenstein Galleries...
...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...