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...Houston show, Derain is at one moment a pointillist, painting with dots (see color), at other moments he is under the spell of Van Gogh or Cézanne. But in his whole work, the old masters are also present, for unlike Vlaminck, Derain spent hours copying in the Louvre. "I do not innovate," he explained. "I transmit." While his greatest contemporaries wanted to shed the past, Derain wanted to bring the Western tradition up to date. While Leonardo or an Ingres would paint a ball as round or oval, he said, Picasso or Leger would "turn it into...
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...
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...