Word: vans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resifted them. The best-known of these collections was that of Paris' renowned impressionist museum, the Jeu de Paume, which, before its collection was moved across the Seine last summer, was attracting three-quarters of a million visitors annually to gaze at its superb Cezannes, Monets, Renoirs, Van Goghs and Lautrecs. There was a residue of 19th century work from Paris' former Musee National d'Art Moderne, whose 20th century collections had already been siphoned off into the Centre Pompidou. Major sculptures, including Rodin's original plasters, came from the Rodin museum in Paris; others were recovered from obscurity...
News Editor For This Issue: Matthew A. Saal '87 Night Editors: Martha A. Bridegam '89 Kristin A. Goss '87 Jonathan M. Moses '88 Sophia A. van Wingerden '89 Sports Editors: Jonathan F. Putnam '88 Geoffrey H. Simon '89 Editorial Editor: John N. Ross '87 Photo Editor: D. Jean Guth '88 Business Editor: John P. Siracuse '87 Copy Editor: Julie E. Gibbons...
Padi is thought to be the first Egyptian mummy to come to the United States with its complete burial set. He arrived at MGH in 1823 as the gift of a Dutch merchant, Jacob Van Lennep, an MGH spokesman said...
...cotton jacket, with its emphatic parallel stripes of blackish-blue, is as explicitly stylized as anything produced within the next quarter-century by Klimt or, for that matter, Miro. But in the head, this graphic energy is subordinated to volume, to the immobile self-containment of a man who, Van Gogh realized, "has seen an enormous amount of suffering and death." The chin and mouth are compressed, but the brow bulges irresistibly from its pale background, the relation between head and coat subtly maintained by the black strokes of hair and mustache and the unwavering darkness of Trabuc's eyes...
...such portraits, Van Gogh attained the grave humane fullness of his great model Rembrandt; the landscapes are like nothing anyone had painted before. No wonder the little asylum, with its worn flagstone corridors and pine-shadowed garden, remains one of the sacred sites of modernist culture. Here, as in Manet's Paris and Cezanne's Aix-en-Provence, art turned on its pivot in the 19th century to face the 20th. One does not see many exhibitions like this in a lifetime...