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...Oscar as the year's best supporting actor. In 1954, while on a visit to Italy, Quinn made a memorable meatball of the carnival strongman in Federico Fellini's La Strada, and last year he produced a vivid portrait of a genius as Painter Paul Gauguin in Lust for Life. The critics raved, and everybody seemed to agree that nothing was too good for Actor Quinn. Nevertheless, in his two latest pictures, just about the most significant thing his employers have permitted him to create is a three days' growth of beard...
Taking his painting cues from Gauguin, Van Gogh and Matisse, Jawlensky learned to orchestrate the hot, fauve colors in the series of portraits that rank as his best work, teamed up with Kandinsky on summer painting vacations outside Munich. Their favorite pastime: placing their paintings on a piano for a Russian pianist to interpret in music...
Kirk Douglas is surprisingly satisfactory as Van Gogh, but there remains too much of the healthy, composed sensualist in his bearing. And he sometimes is not quite able to convey Van Gogh's frightening intensity. Anthony Quinn is excellent as Paul Gauguin, one of Van Gogh's few friends, but one-time stockbroker Gauguin was not so savage as he is shown in Lust for Life. The other acting is generally commendable, especially that of James Doland, who plays Van Gogh's brother Theo, a Paris art dealer who was the only person that thought Van Gogh a great artist...
...film is best when it places the scenes that inspired Van Gogh next to sweeping CinemaScopic closeups of his paintings. Actor Kirk Douglas (whose natural red beard makes him look astonishingly like Van Gogh's self-portrait) and Anthony Quinn (splendid as the swaggering Paul Gauguin) at times manage to catch what Van Gogh called "the high yellow note" of painting intensity and the "electric arguments" about art which Van Gogh wrote left them "with our heads as exhausted as an electric battery after it is discharged." The film captures the fierce drive and bitter tragedy in the life...
...Gauguin, who made his break into art under Pissarro's tutelage, said in later years: "He looked at everybody, you say! Why not? Everyone looked at him, too, but denied him. He was one of my masters, and I do not deny him." "Perhaps we all come from Pissarro," added Cezanne, who early worked under...