Word: gauguins
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...Nabis, or Prophets, that had formed in 1889 in Paris. They believed in taking art down to its essential flat patches of color, strong boundaries, tapestry-like abutments of form and a general emphasis on the decorative. Their prototypes came from Japanese prints and the influence of Paul Gauguin. And they had close ties to Symbolism. Their literary god was the poet Stephane Mallarme, who had conceived of poetry as a structure of words and absences: "To conjure up the negated object, with the help of allusive and always indirect words, which constantly efface themselves in a complementary silence." This...
...commonroom. Although the audience near the back issometimes forced to stand in order to see some ofthe downstage scruffling, it is more a testamentto the engrossing action than to the use of thestage. The onstage room itself is tastefullydecorated with paintings of naked women by thelikes of Rubens or Gauguin, as would be expectedof any respectable Freudian psychiatrist's officeof the 1960s...
...Picasso tries on a style and buys it completely until he finishes a painting only to abandon or modify that style before moving on to the next canvas. The show's label text aptly points to possible influences which include artists such as Monet, Munch, Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin, Cezanne and even Velasquez...
...portraits of imaginary generals and developing into 12-ft.-long scrolls, done in watercolor and collage on joined sheets of paper. Darger had no formal training, and as far as is known he never visited a museum, although there are faint signs that he might have seen reproductions of Gauguin. He made it all up as he went along, according to the dictates of his compulsion. Since he couldn't draw the human body, he traced his muffin heroines and victims from children's books, comic strips and advertisements. He would then give the naked ones tiny penises and sometimes...
...directly back to the painter's sister-in-law. Tasset and others claim the first owner was the art dealer Amedee Schuffenecker. That would raise serious questions: Schuffenecker was notorious for selling fake paintings, and his brother Claude-Emile, a friend of both Van Gogh's and Paul Gauguin's, was a skillful copyist of their works. Thus many doubters believe Jardin a Auvers was actually painted by Claude-Emile Schuffenecker (1851-1934). If so, its celebrity is a vindication of sorts for a painter little known in his lifetime and almost totally forgotten today...