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...self-aware, Beckmann intended from an early age to make a mark with his art. His early paintings, such as Young Men at the Seaside, painted in 1905 when the artist was 21, confirmed his own early stylistic assessment of himself as being "between Cézanne and Van Gogh." But after his experience as a medical orderly in Flanders in 1915, which led to a nervous breakdown, his paintings, such as The Descent from the Cross in 1917, took on a medieval starkness, and many of his figures became deformed by pain. His work began to reflect a cool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grim Visions | 9/29/2002 | See Source »

...business begun by Gabrielle's paternal grandfather Bernhard Meyer. In the 1970s, the Merzbachers began putting together one of the best private collections of 20th century art. They already had inherited some great pictures from Mayer, who owned important works by Paul Cézanne, Vincent Van Gogh and Matisse. And with these for inspiration, the Merzbachers began building a collection suffused with bright, often violent color. As strange as it may seem, at the start of the 20th century color was contentious. Old theories of art still held that the color in a painting should be secondary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime Colors | 9/15/2002 | See Source »

...sometimes hapless experiences (watch for a fight of Nietzschean proportions with his girlfriend in a Barbados cafe), De Botton encourages us to savor the small pleasures of traveling: the funny spelling on a Dutch sign, a cypress tree in Provence that's straight out of a Van Gogh painting, or a stranger's kitchen glimpsed from a speeding train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Road Scholars | 8/26/2002 | See Source »

Grenville L. Winthrop, class of 1886, bequeathed his collection--which includes works by 19th-century masters such as van Gogh, Ingres, Renoir and Sargent, as well as one of the most important collections of Chinese art in the West--to Harvard upon his death in 1943, requesting that the collection remain in Cambridge for students...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Revered Harvard Art Collection Will Travel | 7/19/2002 | See Source »

...show is anchored around the Fogg’s own Toulouse-Lautrec, The Hangover (Suzanne Valadon) (1887-1889) but relies on loans from museums including the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston...

Author: By Nicole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fogg Lands Toulouse-Lautrec Show | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

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