Word: gogh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painted by Norwegian Artist Edvard Munch (pronounced Moohnk), who, although a founder of the expressionist school of painting, has only lately begun to gain some of the fame of his turn-of-the-century contemporaries, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec. Considered a madman much of his life, the anguished and neurotic Munch was the son of a military surgeon who became a religious fanatic later in life and of a mother who died of tuberculosis when the boy was five. "I always felt," recalled Munch, "that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick and threatened with punishment...
This book is written in blurbese, the language of record jackets, movie previews of coming attractions, and fictionalized biographies. Blurbese is prose with a glandular condition, but it often pays better than literature, as Author Irving Stone found out with such bestsellers as Lust for Life (Vincent Van Gogh), The President's Lady (Rachel Jackson) and Love Is Eternal (Mary Todd Lincoln). In the present fictionalized life of Michelangelo Buonarroti, Author Stone has transcended himself; The Agony and the Ecstasy raises blurbese to blurbissimo...
...clump of bushes 15 feet below, the fire department arrived, shot up a rescue ladder. After ascertaining that his wife and three servants were safe ("A miracle," beamed New York's First Lady), the Governor ducked back into his bedroom to retrieve six Picasso drawings, a Van Gogh sketch and a portrait of his father. But surveying his gutted first floor after the blaze had been extinguished half an hour later. Rockefeller found only the charred remains of a distinguished art collection, estimated the loss at $350,000. All told. 70 pictures and sculptures were damaged or destroyed, including...
...members of Die Brücke endlessly read Verlaine, Rimbaud, D'Annunzio and Nietzsche. They drank into the night, took midnight swims with their female models, absorbed everything from the fiery swirls of Van Gogh to the dramatic African masks that were being displayed in the Dresden Zoological and Ethnographical Museum. By 1911, when they decamped to Berlin. Kirchner had developed a boldly distinctive style of his own, and he had begun painting the famed street scenes that were to be his forte (see color...
...town of Zaandam, 300 parishioners refused to contribute to the building fund. In Paris, a city more used to the out-rageous in art, Appel decorated a restaurant in the UNESCO building. And in Britain, Sir Herbert Read solemnly declared that Appel has found the world "Van Gogh was seeking but did not find the world of abstract expressionism...