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Article: Tortured Souls.(Vincent Van Gogh, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Jackson Pollock, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York)
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- Newsweek
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- October 12, 1998
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Do artists have to suffer greatly to make great art? Check out the big Vincent van Gogh and Jackson Pollock exhibitions.
At the moments of their deaths, both Vincent van Gogh and Jackson Pollock were failures. Van Gogh (1853-1890) lived his brief life in misery and poverty, committing suicide less than two years after he sliced off part of his left ear with a razor and gave it to a prostitute for safekeeping. He sold only two pictures in his lifetime. Pollock fared better, selling two pictures to the Museum of Modern Art. In 1949, he was the subject of a Life magazine spread headlined, "Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" But by the summer of ...
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... ... presented as an act of self- destruction so extreme that Van Gogh's ear-slicing seems genteel whimsy by comparison. Jang ... looking like hungover Rolf Harris will suddenly blossom into Jackson Pollock density. And when it comes to portraying artists with sore ...
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