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Going Hollywood is not as simple as going native. To be Mistah Kurtz or a Paul Gauguin, one has to learn little ritual incantations; to survive in Hollywood one must take survival training. Even chameleons die there of eczema, looking in their last hours like iguanas by Jackson Pollock. Yet people can live there, if they know how. A 1964 survival textbook for men and women...
...magic, mythic and ritualistic impulses that fostered it. A reader pondering its carved canoes and implements, its funerary and fertility figures and its grotesquely surrealistic ceremonial masks will catch more than a glimmering of what astounded and enthralled the eyes of great artists as different as Paul Gauguin, Picasso, Brancusi and Matisse...
...merely to earn applause, or both: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Raphael and Mozart, who aimed to please; El Greco, Goya, Picasso, Beethoven, Proust and Yeats, who mostly aimed to please themselves. And there are those who found in art a refuge from reality, either through true talent, like the runaway Gauguin, or through some talent mixed with posing, like Byron, Hemingway and Dali, or no talent at all, like the hundreds of pseudo artists who succeed on borrowed ideas and hand-me-down rebellion. There are the great artistic eccentrics...
Bald, gross, and illiterate Emile a Tae, 64, half-caste Tahitian son of Painter Paul Gauguin, used to let tourists take his picture for a few francs, just enough to keep himself in beer. Now, at London's prestigious O'Hana Gallery, his own childlike oil-on-canvas pictures are bringing from $700 to $1,400 apiece, and he has learned to sign them Emile Gauguin. He has reformed too, says fortyish mentor, Madame Josette Giraud, a French writer who bailed him out of jail several times and put a paintbrush in his hand. When word gets back...
Without Thunder. In his son's recounting, Renoir was the sanest and sunniest of men. His biography is a powerful antidote for the notion-acquired, perhaps, from reading biographies of Van Gogh and Gauguin-that art must spring from anguish. Not that Renoir had an easy time; at the beginning of his career his paintings were ridiculed along with those of other impressionists, and at the end of it he was twisted by a rheumatic paralysis that made each brush stroke an effort of will. What was so unusual about Renoir was the grace with which he bore...