Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such post-impressionists as Gauguin, Van Gogh and Cézanne wrenched the wheel further around, by refusing to paint precisely what they saw. They also painted what they felt about it, and they inclined to look more at their pictures than at their subjects. It remained for the living moderns, led by Picasso and Matisse, to give the final twist. A painting, they decided, is a painting first and foremost, and whatever it represents must be secondary. Granted that much, they felt perfectly justified in making their own rules, regardless of "appearances." Some (the nonobjective painters) chose to ignore...
...explosions of temperament (Ginger Rogers refused to let one cherished piece of her sculpture out of the house). But he-man Fred MacMurray double-wrapped his watercolor (Red Chimney) and sneaked it in the back door of the hall; Sigrid Gurie presented a painting signed "Sigrid" (after all, Van Gogh signed his "Vincent"); Mrs. William Powell, whose husband may currently be seen in Life with Father, offered a still life prominently featuring a copy of the book-and signed the picture "Mousie"; Ella Raines showed a circus scene and signed her middle name, "Fatima"; Elizabeth Taylor titled her self-sculpture...
...home, left only 1,231 minor paintings to cover the walls. Among the loot: Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, 17 Rubenses and as many Rembrandts, 24 Van Dycks and seven Poussins, as well as paintings by Tintoretto, Velasquez, Vermeer, Manet, Renoir, Degas and Van Gogh. Total value of the Zwinger loot...
...show was Hiroshige, who was born 37 years after Hokusai. His work ended the golden age of Japanese prints and started a new era in Western art. His prints, frequently used in wrapping tea for export to Europe, exerted an influence on Manet, Whistler, Degas, and Van Gogh...
Biographer Irving Stone, who wrote Lust for Life (Van Gogh) and Immortal Wife (Jessie Benton Fremont), turned to a new field of history in his "historical" screenplay on the life of Dolly Madison...