Word: gauguin
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...Normal" people discredited Rembrandt, misunderstood El Greco, reviled Blake, ignored Cézanne, drove Van Gogh to suicide and Gauguin into exile...
Bombs splattered over this Gauguin landscape, and presumably naval gunfire added its voice to the destruction, but the U.S. battle fleet wrapped itself in a cloak of radio silence-which left the damage done, and the fleet's further operation, an incompleted tale...
...youth, when he attended intellectual gatherings with Paul Gauguin, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Paul Valery and Stephane Mallarme, Gide wore a romantic cape, but always carried a Bible in his pocket. His greatest gaffe was made when as a publisher's reader he turned down the first volume of Marcel Proust's masterpiece, Remembrance of Things Past...
...after quitting the ring. Someone had sold him a bad painting of a clipper ship and it disturbed him. He tinkered with it. After six months he had changed it into a steamboat. Then he saw a movie, The Moon and Sixpence-Somerset Maugham's story about Paul Gauguin. Next day Mickey bought an easel, a palette and a fistful of brushes...
...which at first responded in kind, though later he got as much as $10,000 for a canvas-lasted a lifetime. Toward the end he worked in a roofless, grass-floored studio surrounded by barbed wire. Only two people were admitted-an expressman and Munch's friend Pola Gauguin, son of the French painter. He named his garden plants after art critics, and gave those who offended him the trowel...