Word: vincent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...basic difference between the painting of Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin is that Artist van Gogh strove to put on canvas the rocketing pinwheels and gaudy flashes constantly exploding in his aching head, whereas Gauguin, whose head throbbed with the same painful lunacy, sought to escape from it in his work. His best pictures have the dark rich colors of Persian rugs. They are as carefully composed as Chinese paintings. Despite the difficulty of obtaining raw materials in the South Seas, he produced more pictures than van Gogh. Many of Gauguin's later pictures were done on prepared...
...Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. In 1887 he suddenly deserted wife, family and the stock exchange, skipped to the West Indies to paint. Back in Paris after a few months, he had an exhibition that was a failure, moved on to a Brittany fishing village, met the equally erratic Vincent van Gogh, went to live with him at Aries...
...Vincent van Gogh, Novelist Irving Stone wrote Lust jor Life (1934). Of Paul Gauguin, Novelist Somerset Maugham wrote The Moon and Sixpence (1919), which by last week had sold over 84,000 copies in the U. S. alone...
...artists sent 116 pictures, 23 pieces of sculpture. In age exhibitors ranged from 87-year-old Edwin H. Blashfield (1914 Hon.) to recently graduated John Stull (1934). Other famed exhibitors: Muralist Eugene Francis Savage (1924); Etcher Troy Kinney (1896); Sculptor Wheeler Williams (1918); Satirist Reginald Marsh (1920); Portraitists Augustus Vincent Tack (1912), Deane Keller...
...amateur standing was the winner of the Yale Club's amateur art show last winter. To judge it a distinguished jury had been chosen: President Jonas Lie of the National Academy of Design, Dean Everett V. Meeks of the Yale School of Fine Arts, Portraitist Augustus Vincent Tack. Carefully they inspected the work of Yale's amateur painters, awarded first prize to an impressionistic watercolor sketch of a child's head...