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...clash of temperament and artistic style, a dream of artistic brotherhood soured by jealousy and the desire to assert dominance. That is the subtext of a major exhibition opening in Amsterdam this month tracing the relationship between Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, two of the 19th century's greatest painters. The nine weeks the two men spent together in southern France in 1888 culminated in one of the most dramatic events in the history of modern art: Van Gogh slicing off a piece of his ear after a quarrel with Gauguin...
...unique partly because it includes three versions of Van Gogh's famous Sunflowers, which are placed side by side for the first time. The earliest, oil on canvas, comes from London's National Gallery and was painted in August 1888 as part of Van Gogh's preparations for Gauguin's arrival at the Yellow House in Arles, where the Dutch painter hoped to create an artists' commune. The second Sunflowers, on loan from the Seiji Togo Memorial Yasuda Kasai Museum of Art in Tokyo, was painted a few months later on a piece of a bolt of burlap bought...
...bared, scowling at my friend TONY QUINN in Lust for Life. I loved Tony. In the early years, we spent much time together. And even when he moved to Italy, we always kept in touch. I was happy for him when he received the Oscar for his portrayal of Gauguin. He deserved it; he was a marvelous actor! Tony was also an extraordinary artist and sculptor. The last time we had dinner together we discussed putting together another exhibition of his work in Los Angeles. He was a thoughtful friend. Not long ago, I emceed a tribute ceremony...
...five years alone, Paris has seen the sculptures of Rodin, the ballerinas of Degas, the water lilies of Monet, the dreamy Provencal mountains of Cezanne--not to mention to paintings of Manet, Seurat, Bonnard, Renoir and many more. Meanwhile, Toulouse-Lautrec is presiding over the Moulin Rouge nightclub, Paul Gauguin has taken ship for Tahiti and set about painting the native girls--and poor, mad Van Gogh is only ten years in the grave...
Nonetheless, the exhibit offers an explanation of van Gogh's breakdown after working with Gauguin in Arles for two months. Van Gogh, after a heated argument, mutilated his ear. Yet only one image of the artist without his ear appears in the exhibit - an important curatorial decision. Instead of focusing on van Gogh as 'the crazy artist who cut his ear off,' the exhibit moves on to the tragedy of what this fit implied for van Gogh - as the exhibit undersores, van Gogh is more than a mad genius...