Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impressionist friends, Vincent Van Gogh was a pathetic puzzle. Renoir, Monet and Pissarro all painted nature ripe and smiling in iridescent veils of sunlight, but the touchy, red-bearded Dutchman couldn't manage that; he seemed to be after something different...
...until after Van Gogh committed suicide in 1890 did the world begin to find out what he was pursuing. In ten years of agony, bliss and hard labor, he had poured out some 900 drawings and 800 paintings, written hundreds of letters. Self-expression was all he cared about, and the self he expressed was so affectionate, violent and wide open to the world around him that the circle of his admirers has broadened with each generation...
Nine hundred thousand people scrambled to see Van Gogh's first full-scale show in the U.S. (in 1935-36). Last week a repeat performance opened in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...vaudeville and circus subjects (The Blue Clown); after long illness; in White Plains, N. Y. A champion of modern art ("Good painters are never intellectuals; they're simply people with one-track minds"), Kuhn helped run the famed 1913 Armory Show, which introduced the U.S. to Picasso, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Matisse...
...Outside the Church the great modern masters have walked-Manet, Cézanne, Renoir, Van Gogh, Matisse, Picasso, Braque. The Church has not reached out, as once it would have, to bring them in. And here we have men who speak directly to the people with the same simple power of the great artists of the Middle Ages . . . These moderns are greater than the sensual men of the Renaissance." Father Couturier's superiors were impressed. "See what you can do," they told...