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...controlled annual Salon exhibition (the art mart of its day), the impressionists were men of their age. "Their poverty irked them especially," Bazin points out, "because it prevented their living that normal life, that stable existence, to which they aspired. It was quite different with Gauguin and Van Gogh. It was these two lunatics who started the rupture between the artist and society. To the 20th century they were the models for geniuses beyond the law, possessed by superhuman power, which . . . laid them...
...colder eye, made the backstage world of ballet dancers and the artificial world of footlights into a private universe. Pissarro, who conscientiously tried his hand at each new style, set his easel up in the French countryside, gave even the meanest farm a nobility and poetry. Van Gogh took the same subject, extended his sensibilities to achieve a kind of ecstatic identification with the countryside's own windswept rhythms...
...reminder of what bargains went begging in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. Now snug in her own two-room West Side Manhattan apartment, with her collection stored at (and willed to) the Metropolitan Museum, she leaps at the chance to show her best buys, including a Van Gogh self-portrait, a Matisse Odalisque and early Picassos. Says she: "I've always had a very good eye and could pick the best...
...Hanna willed the museum $20 million in gilt-edged securities. And as a final fillip, last week the museum exhibited the 35 paintings Donor Hanna bequeathed from his own, never exhibited collection. Among them: Manet's Berthe Morisot, Renoir's The Apple Seller, and a late Van Gogh entitled Mademoiselle Ravonx-worth altogether more than...
...aura of epic (and of late, cinematic) drama hovers over the struggles, achievements and major breakthroughs of such 19th century greats as Van Gogh, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Cezanne, on whose vision modern art largely rests. Less known but of no less importance was Georges Seurat, born in 1859, who made it his goal to weld science and art into a technique of dot, dab and stitch strokes that would not only challenge the glowing canvases of the impressionists but be a compendium of what was known in his day of optics, color and psychology...