Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Continent--to find a better 19th century collection this summer." For those readers who prefer deeds to words, a rather partial inventory of the collections shows: 12 water-colors and drawings by Cezanne, and oils by the following: Gauguin (1), Monet (3), Picasso (3), Modigliani (2), Renoir (4), Van Gogh (3), Degas (2), Rousseau (1) and Toulouse-Lautrec...
...Pearlman Collection continues upstairs in Gallery XVII, which it shares with works from the Fogg's 19th century collection. Up here, the range and quality of the works is extremely impressive. Van Gogh's famous Tarascon Diligence is still a fresh visual experience upon its first encounter; its use of heavy brushwork, vividly dominant colors and incised outlines are Van Gogh at his best. Only an awkwardly distorted ladder disturbs this great masterpiece. Next to this work are a small and good Renoir Nude and a very fine Woman in a Round Hat by Manet...
...future; only eternal transformation. It is the exemplary materialization of relativism." Tinguely agrees. Says he: "In my paintings, there is only pure event, pure transformation. If you want to stop the painting and look at it, don't buy my work. Go buy a Van Gogh...
...still widely copied, from the tight-fitting, brimmed hat in a 15th century painting by Roger van der Weyden. She designed a line of successful "chessmen" hats after seeing a show of old chessmen at New York's Metropolitan Museum. She has derived yellow bonnets from Van Gogh, beige pillboxes set with seashells from Gauguin, bright-colored squares from Painter Mondrian...
Blood-Red Moon. The Met's production of Wozzeck does full justice to its dramatic power. The sets by Germany's Caspar Neher are starkly effective: a phosphorescently glowing landscape dominated by a blood-red moon and lumpish, Van Gogh-like stumps of trees; a solidly bourgeois German hill town, contrasting with the madness unfolding before it. Hero of the evening: Conductor Karl Boehm, who, after an unprecedented 24 rehearsals, led his huge orchestra through Berg's convoluted score with masterful clarity and passion...