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...wrote a French stockbroker named Paul Gauguin, who left his wife and secure career and went in search of the very place of love. He found it with the Maoris of Tahiti, and many of his pictures, such as the woodcut opposite, attest the artistic success of his quest. But it was a therapeutic disaster to himself; he died in the islands, of syphilis, malnutrition and a failing heart. Last week some 200 of his works, including 75 of his prints, went on show at the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition, which will move to Manhattan's Metropolitan...
...Gauguin's paintings are universally admired for the colors of a world sun-filled and yet without glare, various and yet disciplined like the rainbow. His woodcuts-generally printed in no more than two colors each-are far less known, but rightly emphasized in Chicago's show. Gauguin's Here We Love evokes that shadowland beneath the waterfall from which no traveler returns unchanged. His picture of a night-time bonfire conference is ominous with invisible evil (see below). Gauguin could create natural atmospheres with colors, and could create supernatural ones with ink alone...
...explain his popularity? "I'm too young to know my customers," says Nemerov, and then gets right down to business: "As I analyze them, they are mostly people of means whose wives love beautiful homes and would prefer a colorful picture to Gauguin, for instance.*When a stranger walks in and pays for a painting of yours, life becomes wonderful indeed. You see, I couldn't bear to be a failure, not only in my own eyes but in the eyes of the world...
...four years of convalescence. "Those were the most valuable years," says Hjorth. "I began thinking and experiencing nature.'' Finally cured. Hjorth switched to sculpture, went to Paris to study with Rodin's famed pupil. Antoine Bourdelle dabbled in cubism, finally found his artistic forefather in Paul Gauguin...
...from the Laplanders of the north, Sculptor Hjorth won admiration. As the central teakwood altarpiece for Jukkasjarvi Church, Hjorth carved a looming Christ with heavy Gauguin overtones, surrounded by the Far North's flowers. On the left stands Laestadius preaching hellfire, while one Lapp smashes a keg of aquavit, another returns a stolen reindeer. On the right, Laestadius begs mercy from a Virgin Mary, while a Lapp lay priest, Raatma the Mild, listens. Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest daily, called it "a masterpiece . . . everything is dissolved and recreated in the same breath...