Word: tanguy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Gogh's sitter in this portrait is a kindly Breton named Père Tanguy, who kept a small art-supply shop in Paris where the avant-garde foregathered. Van Gogh posed him with the head-on simplicity of a snapshot and surrounded him with the airy colors of Japanese prints. The background makes a sprightly contrast with the solid little sitter and the potato tones of his folded hands. Says British Art Expert Helmut Ruhemann: Van Gogh is one of the two or three artists of all time who has taken the trouble of inventing a new color...
...young married couples, some from as far as 50 miles away, had come to browse around, gone home with 61 first-rate works of art tucked under their arms. Chicago's fedora prices: from $1.50 for a small drawing to $50 for a large work by Yves Tanguy...
Modern art was on the couch last week. A Viennese psychiatrist, Dr. Eva Henrich, had shown 30 pictures to a panel of 158 rank & file Viennese. Half the works were by modernist painters-Picasso, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Enrico Donati and Joán Miró. The other half were by schizophrenic patients in mental hospitals. Asked to decide which were the outpourings of patients and which the works of artists, the panel scored a perfect zero. They were right half the time, wrong the other half-or no better than they might have been if they had closed their...
...studio is as messy as Tanguy's is clean. "We both dislike terribly the idea of being a team of painters," she says. "For that reason we refuse to exhibit together and never look at each other's work until it's finished. Naturally, I admire his work more than anything, but I try very hard not to be influenced...
Whether or not influence could account for it, Mr. and Mrs. Tanguy did share a predilection for subdued colors, vast spaces and striking titles. One of the most impressive pictures in Kay's show was a wall as elaborately constructed as a Chinese puzzle. Festooned with torn cloths, it looked like a window-cleaner's dream of Radio City. Kay's title for it was Three Thousand Miles to the Point of Beginning...