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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vincent Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait
...Using the artist's drawings and paintings, film clips of the backgrounds of his life, and his own words, the program has Martin Gabel as narrator and Lee J. Cobb speaking the lines of Van Gogh. Color...
Accent (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). French Motion Picture Director Jean Renoir takes viewers to Paris' Jeu de Paume, discusses the impressionist canvases of his father as well as Cézanne, Van Gogh...
Pilgrims making the journey last week found the presence of Van Gogh evoked by a larger-than-life (10½ ft., 880 Ibs.) bronze statue that is in many ways as strange as the man it commemorates. Staring toward the rolling wheatfield that was the subject of Vincent's last canvas is a figure with peasant hat and deep-set eyes, the severed left ear barely suggested, paintbox and easel slung on his back. The work of Russian-born Sculptor Ossip Zadkine, it stands a few paces from the small walled cemetery where Van Gogh lies buried beside...
Sculptor Zadkine confesses that as his admiration and respect for Van Gogh increased, so did the task of portraying him with fidelity. "You cannot go into abstraction when you do a personage; a person is always a document." Zadkine believes. Zadkine finally narrowed his search for the real Van Gogh down to two self-portraits, one in which Van Gogh resembled his mother, the other his father, and modeled them in clay. "When I had these two portraits I proceeded to create this being. He was an active man. Every morning he would go out, make three paintings, afterwards working...