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T.F. Chen Cultural Center Post-Van Gogh Retrospective: Imaginative Art Dealer(III)
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Gogh: "Portrait of Pere Tanguy, Half-Lenght,"(1887), Rodin Museum, Paris Cezanne: "Self-Portrait,"(1879-85), Ruskin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow "Peaches and Pears,"(1888-89), Ruskin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow Gauguin: "Self-Portrait,"(1889), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
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One afternoon in Montmartre, Vincent van Gogh and Paul Cezanne met in the little shop of Pere Tanguy, who supplied them with painting materials in exchange for a few of their artworks. The two artists differed greatly in technique and productivity; Cezanne was a slow, methodical painter who sometimes took years to complete a painting; Van Gogh, on the other hand, often completed several works a day. Van Gogh showed Cezanne a few landscapes, portraits, and still lifes that he had done. Upon examining them, Cezanne turned to Van Gogh and remarked, "Honestly, your painting is that of a madman." Ironically, Cezanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin are grouped together by art historians as the three great masters of Post-Impressionism. To Van Gogh and Cezanne, Paul Gauguin seemed to be another extreme in character and artistic creation. Perhaps each of the three, upon seeing the others’ work, would have argued that the other two artists were the "real" madmen. In T.F. Chen’s " imaginative Art Dealer (III)," we have the reconciliation as well as the enrichment of those three masters. Van Gogh’s majestic Pere Tanguy poses in front of a table. Ceznne’s fruits and jar still life sit atop the table, while his self-portrait hangs upon the wall, side with Gauguin’s portrait as well. Three different renderings, coloration, and brushstrokes; yet the three masters are so harmoniously united in their genius that our imaginative art dealer,Pere Tanguy, has no trouble in selling their artwork.
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