Tag Archives: Gauguin

vincent in arles: goodbye yellow brick house

Posted on February 10, 2011 by Dave

… then in February 1888, during a snowstorm, came a Dutchman who saw Arles as the city had been waiting to be seen- a miracle of color beneath the golden sun. Vincent van Gogh adored “the sun pouring down bright … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Daumier, Emile Bernard, Eugene Delacroix, Gauguin, Ingres, Jean-Francois Millet, Martin Gayford, Paul Gauguin, Puvis de Chavannes, Robert Freedman, Theo van Gogh, Van Gogh, van Gogh in Arles, Vincent Van Gogh | Leave a comment

ROUSSEAU & THE COUCH IN THE JUNGLE: Landscape of Hallucination

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Dave

It’s been said, oversimplistically but sympathetically, that “he didn’t know the rules well enough to break them”. But of course there are no rules in the kingdom of the imagination.He knew he was a babe in the woods of high … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Adrian Searle, Alfred Jarry, Andre Breton, Arsene Alexandre, August Macke, Christopher Green, Cornelia Stabenow, Douglas Cooper, Emil Nolde, Eugene Delacroix, Franz Roh, Gauguin, Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Herbie Hancock, Herschel B. Chipp, Herschel Browning Chipp, Jean Cocteau, Jean Leon Gerome, Jill Fell, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Matisse, Michael Hoog, Montague Ullman, Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Paul Klee, Pechstein, Robert Delaunay, Roger Shattuck, Seurat, Sigmund Freud, Signac, Virginia Chandler, Wassily Kandinsky, Wilhelm Uhde | Leave a comment

SAVAGE ILLUSIONS

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Dave

The first word that Gauguin had painted ”Where Do We Come From?” reached Europe early in 1898 in the form of an illustrated letter to his long time friend the minor painter Daniel de Monfried. In describing the work Gauguin … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Bengt Danielsson, Daniel de Monfried, French Art, Gauguin, Henri Rousseau, Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, Moerenhout, Paul Gauguin, post impressionist art, Rene Chateaubriand | Leave a comment

NONE OF THE ABOVE

Posted on March 2, 2010 by Dave

”Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” Having presented the questions so handsomely, in his greatest painting, it hardly seems to matter that Paul Gauguin had none of the answers. To look for allegorical meanings … Continue reading →