Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over; he was made Slade Professor of Art at Cambridge only in the last year of his life. But Roger Fry made more Britons look at pictures and like them than any other man of his time. The term Post-Impressionism, for the art of Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, et al., was his invention, and through jibes and jeers he introduced Cézanne to London...
Four years ago Manhattan's swank Saks Fifth Avenue department store decided to make the minor art of window dressing more arty. Taking a cue from the Museum of Modern Art's highly successful Van Gogh exhibition, Saks hung its windows with splashy Van Gogh reproductions, surrounded them with splashy garments. The idea spread until Fifth Avenue began to look like a huge, outdoor art museum...
Boston's Brahmins have firm opinions. On no subject are their opinions firmer than on Modern Art. In recent years Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has admitted a fine van Gogh, a good Cézanne, a very expensive Gauguin. But as late as 1926 F. W. Coburn, art critic of the Boston Herald, still denounced modernism in the tones of a Cotton Mather. To Pundit Coburn, Cézanne was a poor painter whose good dinners caused his friends to "whoop it up for him and get his pictures admitted to places where they wouldn...
...small collection of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings are now being shown in Fogg Museum. The artist's life was both fascinating and tragic enough to provide ample material for the publicity he has gained, but many people, vexed by the stupendous praise which has been rendered-him, justifiably object to the place he has recently come to occupy, on the grounds that he is highly over-rated as a painter. Now whether or not Van Gogh is over-rated must remain a point for further discussion. It can be said, however, that along with such men as El Greco...
...personal opinion that despite the chaotic, half-crazed existence which Van Gogh led, his paintings are as sanc, as natural as any creation ever to come from the brush of an artist. If, as many say, they are the artistic symptoms of a deranged mind, it can be said with equal conviction that in many cases his deranged mind has succeeded in breaking through certain superimposed limits of expression and has gone beyond the barrier of empirical observation in a surprisingly unaffected and natural way. His mind was no hodge-podge while he was actually painting; on the contrary...