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Today "Madman" Munch is recognized as Scandinavia's most powerful artist, one of the key founders of German expressionism, second in power only to Vincent Van Gogh, and on a par with Toulouse-Lautrec as a graphic artist. His work was first shown on a major scale in the U.S. seven years ago (TIME, May 1, 1950) ; the second major retrospective has already been an outstanding hit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art and Minneapolis' Institute of Arts, will travel over the coming twelvemonth to Chicago, Cincinnati and San Francisco...
...Turkish Composer Nevit Kodalli's announcement that he was planning to put Vincent van Gogh on the operatic stage at first brought howls of protest from critics who believed that it was his duty to choose a Turkish theme. But most criticism ended with the first performance in Ankara. The libretto altered Irving Stone's fictionalized Van Gogh biography, Lust for Life, and reduced it to five scenes: London, in front of the house of Van Gogh's first love, who rejects him with a shout of "you redheaded fool"; Etten, Holland, in front...
...Japanese public's enthusiasm for Tessai's work soared in 1955 when Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art turned over its entire three floors to an exhibition of his works. Western-oriented Japanese compared his work to Cézanne and Van Gogh in its vigor and independence; the president of Japan's Society for International Cultural Relations called Tessai "the greatest giant produced by Japan in recent times." Early this year a crowd of 20,000 showed up on the opening day of another Tessai exhibit. Now with a traveling exhibit of 53 Tessai...
...both. Except for an Ingres and Van Gogh drawing, a Cézanne oil and a few other late igth century works, the collection consists entirely of contemporary art, ranging from Afro to Vuillard, and including Picasso, Rouault. Matisse, Klee, Braque, MirÓ, Villon, Bonnard, Tamayo. Elvira and another early buy, Max Beckmann's Zeretelli (opposite), are typical of the individual pictorial styles and expressiveness that caught Pulitzer's eye. One of the best painters to come out of Germany in this century, Beckmann did this perceptive portrait of the ballet dancer-prince in 1927 as part...
Gauguin kept going toward the unknown and soared to fame-posthumously. Bernard, becoming enamored of Italian Renaissance masters, and veering toward mysticism, turned back toward safer paths and sank to obscurity. Though he lived to a ripe 72 (and was a key figure in bringing Van Gogh's work to public attention), Bernard never again painted with the vigor and originality of the Pont-Aven days, which ended half a century before his death...