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...Modern artists praised: A. L. Barye, Brancusi, Cezanne, Courbet, Degas, Delacroix, Derain, Eakins, Frueh, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Winslow Homer, Manet, Monet, Picasso, Pissarro, Poiret, de Chavannes, Renoir...
...garish Tahitian fantasies of Paul Gauguin. He found the soft woods and streams of Brittany an exhausted subject. He lived, painted and died in the South Seas, where sunlight bursts like bombshells on labyrinthine foliage, showers lustrous patterns on voluptuous dark flesh...
...iridescent landscapes of Vincent van Gogh, madman. When he had no brushes he squirted paint from his color tubes. Insanely he attacked Gauguin with a razor, then lopped off one of his own ears, sent it in an envelope to a bordello. He died by his own hand...
...overhead. Displayed at the No-Jury Exhibition (Marshall Field's, 1926) under the title "Aspiration," it was selected out of 480 others for special praise and reproduction by the Art World of Chicago. Wrote Lena McCauley, art critic of the Chicago Evening Post: "It is a delightful jumble of Gauguin, Pop Hart and Negro minstrelsy with...
...Paul Jordan Smith has written Nomad, Cables of Cobweb. This month he waits publication of his newest book, The Key to Ulysses. Also, he is editing and interpreting Robert Burton's Anatomy of Mel- ancholy. ?Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), was a painter whose art was inspired by the primitive in nature, modified by a theory of sym- bolism in form, color, design. He declared that only in Tahiti, whither he retired, could he find proper stimulation for his work. His enthusiasm for the picturesque South Seas was shared by his good friend, Robert Louis Stevenson...