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Tuesday, June 6 CBS NEWS HOUR (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "Gauguin in Tahiti: The Search for Paradise." Sir Michael Redgrave is the voice of Paul Gauguin in a special that focuses on the painter's years in Tahiti...
...with the little-boy legs" (some little boy!). An ad for the Cole of California line tried to make you think of that tiny piece of Acrilan acrylic knit as a "sizzle of orange with hot pink." For "a certain kind of woman who'd like to retrace Gauguin's steps," Peck & Peck was arguing that you didn't have to go to Tahiti to wear an island-print bikini...
...spacelessness by painting abstract surfaces in which continuously changing relationships of form and color exist for themselves, in spite of some vestigial remains of subject-matter. The rich, almost voluptuous, color of the Louis paintings and the organic growth of the forms have more in common with Art Nouveau. Gauguin's rich palette and his gently curving patterns immediately come to mind. Louis' forms also suggest some affinity to the verdant, celluar shapes in the paintings of Georgia O'Keefe...
...bursting composition he paints a current cucurbitaceous self-portrait. Then why another self-portrait at the age of 18 months? "Every artist tells how he started painting in the cradle," he says. Actually he began at 15; his first exhibition in Colombia was so derivative of Van Gogh, Gauguin and others that people thought it was a group show. And it sold...
...Ashcan School." But, traveling abroad in 1912 as the agent for Philadelphia Millionaire Dr. Albert C. Barnes, inventor of the bland antiseptic Argyrol, Glackens became more impressed by the vigor of contemporary French painting, helped Barnes acquire at bargain prices high-toned paintings by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Matisse and Renoir...