Word: self-portraits
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Munch overcame the brilliant painter's instinct to paint brilliantly. No one looking at his Self-Portrait with a Wine Bottle would be likely to exclaim first of all about Munch's technical skill. The fine painting is rigorously subordinated to the subject: a man, angry, lonely and lost, who stares from the deep perspective of the canvas...
Munch described his self-portrait as a self-examination. Its colors-red and green in the figure, violet and orange in the background-increase the emotional punch. Painted in 1906, when he was already famous, it reflects the melancholia that continually plagued him. Munch's girl had recently threatened suicide because he refused to marry her, and when he tried to disarm her, she had shot him in the finger. He was drinking more & more, and throwing his weight around when he did. He had exiled himself from Norway after almost killing a man in a drunken brawl...
...carefully selected paintings, etchings and drawings ranged from the artist's confident, worldly Self-Portrait as a Young Man (1631), when he was Amsterdam's most fashionable artist-about-town, to Lucretia, his pensive recollection of his long-dead mistress Hendrickje Stoffels, finished in 1666, when he had gained the resigned wisdom of an aging, ruined man waiting for death. It was part of Rembrandt's misfortune that such later pictures had left the stolid burghers of Amsterdam cold. Last week they helped to make the show at the Wildenstein the warmest in Manhattan...
...harried lifetime, Vincent Van Gogh painted some 800 pictures. Was one of them the candlelit, unfinished self-portrait in the collection of Cinemagnate William Goetz? The artist's nephew and Amsterdam Museum Director Jonkheer WJ.H.B. Sandberg thought not (TIME, June 6). On the other hand, Van Gogh Experts Jacob Bart de la Faille and Paul Gachet thought it was. To settle the matter, Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, which had on display the most comprehensive Van Gogh exhibition ever seen in the U.S., picked a jury of American experts: Museum Men Alfred Barr Jr., James Plaut, George Stout...
...Moreno was a short, heavy-set man whose pale eyes and greying countenance made him look not unlike a Rivera self-portrait in lithograph...