Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exhibition that belatedly introduced Van Gogh, Cezanne, Matisse, Rouault, Braque and Picasso to the U.S. public-Manhattan's Armory Show in 1913 -also inspired a young U.S. artist named Stuart Davis to change his ways. Today Stuart Davis, who looks somewhat like a shy bulldog, is among the few painters to translate Paris abstractionism into a jazzy U.S. idiom...
...paintings: three Monets-River Scene on the Seine "with Barges, Rustic Landscape, Monceau Park; two Sisleys-Seine at Argenteuil, Thames at Hampton Court; Renoir's Woman at her Toilet; Degas' Seated Nude Brushing her Hair; Cezanne's Mont Victoire; Van Gogh...
Opening-nighters, strolling through an atmosphere of suave showmanship, got a strong impression that modernism's most resounding salvos are still being fired by French-school painters long dead (Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh) or artists now aging (Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse...
...house twice as much again as the current show - came such familiar modern land marks as French Primitive Henri Rousseau's haunting, tactile Sleeping Gypsy, Pablo Picasso's monumental, screeching, early cubist Young Women of Avignon (painted in 1906-07 and considered the first cubist picture), Van Gogh's swirling Starry Night. Art lovers who looked for samples of what the Museum is buying today, or accepting as gifts, found...
...book, The Modern Dilemma in Art, which damns van Gogh, Cézanne, et al. as "mediocrities," explains his theories exhaustively...