Word: goghs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble was that Nakian felt he was crowding the "hairline between greatness and corniness." His work seemed too glib, too academic-and commercial. Nakian settled back to study his favorite masters-Titian, Rubens, Van Gogh, Cezanne-and read avidly through the Greek classics. The classics, he felt, had everything a sculptor could want, especially the story of how Jupiter disguised himself as a bull and carried the fair Europa off to Crete. Nakian spent five years pummeling and twisting the clay for a huge terra-cotta abstract of the Rape of Europa. "It was a tremendous, wild figure, more bizarre...
...goodness art museum. Santa Barbara, Calif, (pop. 45,000) is one that can. Last week culture-conscious Santa Barbara was celebrating its museum's tenth anniversary. One of the high spots of the anniversary show was a loan display of 30 modern paintings, including masterpieces by Van Gogh, Monet, Rouault and Braque...
...19th Centuries the genre was dominated by four masters: Kiyonga, Hokusai, Hiroshige and Utamaro. Their color prints made from wood blocks sold for a few cents each, were sometimes used to wrap tea for export. They greatly influenced such modern European painters as Manet, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh. Now the wind blows the other way, and many Japanese prints show the influence of European art. Two of the postwar examples on the opposite page could only have been created through a meeting of East and West...
...have great force-enough to compete with war pictures and even neon signs. That may well be the reason for its critical success. Fifty years ago, critics were so intent on judging an artist's skill that they misjudged such unskilled but forceful painters as Gauguin and Van Gogh. For better or worse, a lot of modern critics now rate forcefulness first...
...international product. Among those who contributed most to it were six expatriate Jews: Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Ossip Zadkine, Jacques Lipchitz, Marc Chagall and Chaim Soutine. Philadelphia Art Collector Albert C. Barnes once bought 50-odd Soutines at a swoop, called him "a far more important artist than Van Gogh...