Word: painter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decades. Painter Paul Colin had all France for an art gallery. His work appeared on stately buildings and on ruins, on the walls of Paris' Folies-Bergere and in a thousand small-town railway stations...
Soon after World War II, successful Artist Colin-who had started as a penniless Montmartre dauber, decorating bistro walls and menu cards-concentrated on serious painting. Last week Paris saw the result. Painter Colin himself was on hand in the gallery to explain the difference between his old and his new work: "Designing a poster is like writing a telegram. Painting a picture is like writing a letter...
Sidewalk Cafe was painted in 1888 at Aries, in the south of France, before Van Gogh had succumbed to the mental horrors which caused him to threaten his friend, Painter Paul Gauguin, with a knife (later that evening Van Gogh cut off his own ear to give to a prostitute). Still untouched by disease, the painting presents a cozy, lovely corner of a friendly night, not the troubled night of his later work; it is proof of Van Gogh's contention that "the night is more alive and more richly colored than...
...Gogh sank deeper and deeper into madness, and in the end committed suicide. But he never quite lost his religious feeling, which he once expressed in a painter's evaluation of Christ: "[He was] more of an artist than all the others, disdaining marble and clay and color, working in the living flesh...
...many nude figures in Michelangelo's Last Judgment. In revenge, Michelangelo rounded out the picture with a caricature of Biagio as Minos, a character from Hades with ass's ears and a serpent around his midriff. When Biagio protested, the witty Pope replied: "If the painter had sent you to purgatory, I would have done my best to get you out. But I have no influence in hell...