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A Placid Van Gogh. Biblical themes, so often shown in bloody violence are also restrained: Carpaccio's The Meditation on the Passion, a somewhat surrealistic scene of peaceful death, or Giovanni di Paolo's Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, a nonviolent exile in which the principals...
A similarly uncharacteristic canvas is a pastoral landscape by Van Gogh-the placid Plain at Auvers. It is a subtle study of pale blues and greens in which plowed fields and few trees lie under a sky that hardly swirls as much as the one in Francesco Guardi's...
A crucified man whose body had been pierced again and again by long knives and large nails hung last week on canvas in Beverly Hills' Frank Perls Gallery. Near him, in another painting, a green nude was trussed up and suspended like a sheep being carted off to slaughter...
In person Strombotne (his paternal grandparents were Norwegian) is mild enough, a considerate father (two small children) who starts each day with the sports section. But on canvas he becomes something else. He describes himself as "angry or outraged, either word will do," and, like most angry young men, shoots...
The Bonfire. When war came, Steichen got on General Billy Mitchell's staff as officer in charge of aerial photography. That experience only increased his desire to communicate through art with as wide an audience as possible. His own paintings-"so much wallpaper in gold frames"-were obviously not...