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Face to Face reveals the many personal traumas in van Gogh's life. While in The Hague, to his family's severe chagrin, van Gogh began living with a former prostitute, Sien, and her mother and children. His earlier portraits of Sien, which occupy more than a wall of the exhibition, reflect a woman defined by hardship and given a sense of beauty. Cleverly juxtaposed with these images are later ones, from 1883, showing an aged, unsmiling and cynical Sien. Shortly after one particularly jaded drawing, van Gogh upped and left for Nuenen, a village in the Netherlands, to live...
Above left: Vincent van Gogh, 'Sien's Sister with Shawl,' 1883, chalk and graphite...
...especially liked the discussions offered at the conference because it brought out new things from me that I never thought about before," said Chih Sien Lee, a first-year student at Montrassat College...
...Japanese advance which rolled down through Shantung intending to capture Suchow (TIME, Jan. 17) was badly behind schedule last week and Chinese guerilla warfare was getting into its stride, in both north and central China. Large guerilla forces reportedly recaptured Hoh-sien, some 35 miles up the Yangtze from Nanking, surrounded Tsining in Shantung...
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