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...resident aesthetes, dressed in bandit costumes, returned the Gauguin reproduction at dinner Monday night. The college has taken the masterpiece into custody. It will not be rehung in Whitman...
...skillful academic portraits and genre paintings (which looked rather like illustrations for Emile Zola) won Munch a government grant to study in Paris for three years. There he learned to paint sunlight almost as eloquently as the impressionist Pissarro, and to handle line and color with something like Gauguin's fluid grace. When he decided to forget the fashionable philosophy of art for art's sake and paint "living beings" instead, Munch was as well equipped for the job as any artist in Europe...
Much of Munch's work has been termed violent and dramatic. Before moving to Germany in 1900 he lived in Paris, where he was exposed to the influence of Van Gogh and Gauguin...
Somerset Maugham adapts nicely to film; "Of Human Bondage" and "Quartet" have shown this pretty well. It is certainly true of "The Moon and Sixpence." Maugham's reworking of the life of Paul Gauguin, of a man who chucks social mediocrity to become an intense, self-centered, and occasionally cruel painter, comes over with most of the book's neat narrative intact...
...that as a child he had drawn pictures of ballplayers instead of playing ball. A more recent convert had been persuaded to try after reading Irving Stone's story of Vincent van Gogh, Lust for Life, 'and W. Somerset Maugham's version of the life of Gauguin, The Moon and Sixpence. Another novice confessed that his wife had given him a paintbox to keep him home nights. Most contestants had a contrary reason for painting: escape...