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...town last week was Alvin Krolik, 27, an Illinois-born artist. Like his idol, Vincent Van Gogh. Krolik found life a confusion. After Marine Corps service, he skidded downhill, ended by committing ten holdups in Chicago in 1953. Put on probation by a kindly judge, Krolik pulled himself together, went to a Franciscan monastery in Topawa. Ariz., there worked on 14 murals that won high praise. Then confusion returned. Fortnight ago in Tucson, Krolik bought a $55 pistol and holster and left for El Paso...
Husky Cinemale Kirk (Ulysses) Douglas, luxuriantly equipped to play his second bearded film role in a row (as tortured Dutch Artist Vincent Van Gogh), was the hairy centerpiece of a trio of singers while rehearsing before a polio benefit on the terrace of Monte Carlo's Summer Sporting Club. His deep voice blended commendably with the husky baritone of Grandma Marlene Dietrich and the lilting tremolo of Italian Cinemactress Gina (The Wayward Wife) Lollobrigida...
...most popular painter in the world today, judging by gallerygoers' reactions and reproduction sales, is the sensual impressionist, Pierre Auguste Renoir. Leonardo commands greater awe, but awe is a long way from affection: at the Louvre it is not the tourists but the Mona Lisa who smiles. Van Gogh had more passion, and for a time his popularity surpassed even Renoir's, but Van Gogh's best pictures are explosive compounds of joy and sorrow, more calculated to disturb than to please. Never a shadow of sorrow crosses Renoir's canvases; he painted simple, earthly pleasures...
...intermittent war of nerves between painters and public has been going on for centuries. Rembrandt's compassionate paintings of events in the Bible were called rotten, and they sold not at all. Children, incited by their elders, mocked Van Gogh in the streets of Arles. True, many of the world's best painters, from Raphael to Renoir, were ardently embraced by the public even before they died. There have been periods of peace; yet the war continues. This spring it is kicking up a lot of dust. Among the latest skirmishes...
...this exhibit contrasts a feminine concern for detail with Martin's bold masculinity. This is especially evident in her drawings, which are well executed, orderly and sensitive. Several of these take as their subject the interior of Miss Doub's living quarters, a preoccupation she shares with Van Gogh and Matisse...