Word: gogh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Works of Vincent van Gogh by J.B. de la Faille. Illustrated. 701 paqes. Reynal. $55. Rather than yet another mindless Van Gogh blockbuster, this is the first catalogue raisonne of his work. Every known painting, drawing and sketch Van Gogh did is catalogued and pictured, along with any description or comments on the work that he may have made. If all this sounds drab and scholarly, it is also cleansing and restorative...
...informs Noah of the flood with monstrous banality. Bursts of thunder test the capacity of the amplification system, and huge projections of film stills on the back wall of the stage feature the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel (creation), paintings of fleshy Renaissance nudes (corruption), and whirling Van Gogh suns (upheavals of nature). After that, the show lasts 40 days and 40 nights, with one 15-minute intermission...
...illustrating episodes of the sutras. One can't escape the richness of their age since they are placed next to eroding bronze containers dating from 1090. And in Lake and Mountains at Daybreak, Summer, an early 19th century painting of the literary style, one can see how Van Gogh borrowed from the Japanese method of using rows of short vertical lines to illustrate grass or fields...
Those people who demand relevance in an exhibition would probably demand that we juxtapose a Van Gogh next to Lake or that we put a Manet that uses patches of color next to a colored screen. But to bring in the Impressionists or Van Gogh would dilute the pure Oriental quality of this exhibit...
...safety standards are observed, the city tends to look the other way. Manhattan's inflated land values, however, make this last frontier of bohemia increasingly attractive to housing developers. If a rezoned SoHo, like Greenwich Village, starts sprouting high-rent, high-rise apartment buildings named for Rembrandt, Van Gogh and Cézanne, the artists who pioneered it will be the first ones forced to leave...