Word: gauguin
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...test the simple hypothesis behind TIME'S art color program - i.e., that since paintings are painted in color, it is better reporting to show them that way - look at the black-and-white reproduction of Paul Gauguin's Tahitian Landscape shown here, then turn to the Art section and compare it with the same picture in color...
...slept, looking just as they did in life. And some of them had the refreshing quality of being a bit oldfashioned. Among them: Oronzio Maldarelli's statue of a young girl, seated cross-legged on her pedestal like some dreaming nymph; Doris Rosenthal's Gauguin-like study of a tropic beauty drowsing in a chair; Waldo Peirce's Renoirish painting of a mother and child happily basking in the streaming seashore...
Young Max Pechstein was one of the leaders in Germany's expressionist movement before World War I. His canvases, which sometimes reminded critics of a lesser Gauguin, were daring in their day, made Pechstein a reputation. But when Hitler came in, Pechstein's "decadent" work went out. He painted on the sly in Berlin, finally went off to live on the Baltic coast...
...John Hay Whitneys' pictures, which top the show, are magnificent examples of such modern French greats as Renoir, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec, Seurat, Rousseau, Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse. "Jock" Whitney, 47, has an eye for painting to equal his eye for horseflesh and business investments, and his vast fortune amply accommodates his tastes. The Whitneys have a full-time curator, Art Historian John Rewald, to help with their collection, but Whitney decides on all purchases himself. "We've bought what struck us as being particularly beautiful," he says...
...triptych does have great force-enough to compete with war pictures and even neon signs. That may well be the reason for its critical success. Fifty years ago, critics were so intent on judging an artist's skill that they misjudged such unskilled but forceful painters as Gauguin and Van Gogh. For better or worse, a lot of modern critics now rate forcefulness first...