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Article: An artist's exotic trip through life.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- August 15, 2002
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Byline: Michael Kilian
NEW YORK _ Many an artist stays in one place.
Others journey.
Vincent van Gogh began his art in the harsh coal fields of the laboring poor, came to Paris to paint and then pursued his unique, burning vision in the south of France, where he reached the full power of his genius yet succumbed to the madness to which it was inextricably linked.
But few have traveled so far and so willfully as Van Gogh's sometime friend and painting partner, Paul Gauguin.
On view through Oct. 20 at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art is a magnificent exhibition of Gauguin's art, 120 paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures ...