Word: gogh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Into his bursting composition he paints a current cucurbitaceous self-portrait. Then why another self-portrait at the age of 18 months? "Every artist tells how he started painting in the cradle," he says. Actually he began at 15; his first exhibition in Colombia was so derivative of Van Gogh, Gauguin and others that people thought it was a group show. And it sold...
...they were dubbed "the Ashcan School." But, traveling abroad in 1912 as the agent for Philadelphia Millionaire Dr. Albert C. Barnes, inventor of the bland antiseptic Argyrol, Glackens became more impressed by the vigor of contemporary French painting, helped Barnes acquire at bargain prices high-toned paintings by Van Gogh, Cezanne, Degas, Gauguin, Matisse and Renoir...
Serious Spontaneity. Hals's spontaneity has appealed to modern artists. Van Gogh praised "his way of stating the subject right away at one sweep." Manet hailed Hals's ability "to set down, at the first stroke, what one sees." Even the U.S. abstract expressionists found justification for their pure play of paint in Hals's practice of working without preliminary drawings...
Degas & Disney. Stein concerned himself with every detail of the institute-from anesthetics to esthetics. He ordered a study of what pictures patients like best, and the vote went to the impressionists. So all rooms have two large, high-quality reproductions of a Renoir or Van Gogh, a Degas or Manet. For the children's clinic, decorated with handmade tiles, Stein got a design from the Walt Disney organization...
...Gogh would have missed out on a rating of the top ten of his time (at the time of his death he was virtually unknown), but cultural polls have their points. Every five years, France's Connaissance des Arts polls connoisseurs with the question, "Who are the ten living painters whom you prefer today?" The 86 replies from a mostly European group of critics, curators, dealers and historians yielded more than 200 names. The result was actually the top 13, since No. 1 was declared hors concours and there were two ties. The list...