Were van Gogh and Gaugin gay?
Mark Anderson
Discuss.
Obeats: The Berghoff is a fine place to visit afterwards.
Geoff Gass
Sounds like a thread for chi.gen...
> Obeats: The Berghoff is a fine place to visit afterwards.
Yes.
John M. Gamble
Note the followup.
Actually, probably not. Both Van Gogh and Gaugin were known to, erm,
frequent the company of the working girls. This alone doesn't exclude
the possibillity of their both being bisexual, of course. But i think
that they were just the sort of people who should never have roomed
together in the first place, despite the loss that would have meant to
the art world. Van Gogh, from what i've read, was an extremely needy,
clinging sort of individual, while Gaugin was the sort of son-of-a-bitch
who would take advantage of it.
This doesn't come through in the exhibit in Chicago. I got some of this
from the van Gogh exhibit in Detroit when they were running the van Gogh
portraits (absolutely terrific show, by the way), and Gaugin, well, his
personality flaws were written about extensively.
By the way, i heard on Wait Wait that some art historian is suggesting
that it was Gaugin that sliced van Gogh's ear. Another interesting
theory to speculate about.
-john
February 28 1997: Last day libraries could order catalogue cards
from the Library of Congress.
Aaron M. Renn
>After visiting the Art Museum it appears so.
>
>Discuss.
The audio tour hints strongly that Van Gogh had a serious thing for
Gauguin. I wonder if this had something to do with their split?
The art at the exhibit is fabulous, btw. I thought the operation was
a bit too assembly line for my taste - and very croweded to boot. But
it was quite an assembly of artwork.
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Mark Anderson
>The audio tour hints strongly that Van Gogh had a serious thing for
>Gauguin. I wonder if this had something to do with their split?
I agree. I can't understand why someone would cut off their ear
without very strong feelings being involved..
>The art at the exhibit is fabulous, btw. I thought the operation was
>a bit too assembly line for my taste - and very croweded to boot. But
>it was quite an assembly of artwork.
It was crowded but there was plenty of time to get a good view of
any painting.
ObEats: I had the beef strogonough (major spelling error) at Berghoff.
It was fantastic.
Michael Dix
>
> On 6 Jan 2002 09:23:35 GMT, Mark Anderson <m...@enteract.com> wrote:
> >After visiting the Art Museum it appears so.
> >
> >Discuss.
>
> The audio tour hints strongly that Van Gogh had a serious thing for
> Gauguin. I wonder if this had something to do with their split?
>
> The art at the exhibit is fabulous, btw. I thought the operation was
> a bit too assembly line for my taste - and very croweded to boot. But
> it was quite an assembly of artwork.
I thought the reconstruction of their studio based on the
angles of the chick in their paintings was a bit much - an
art historian's MA thesis come to life.
t r i l l i u m
> In article Aaron M. Renn <ar...@urbanophile.com> wrote:
>
> >The audio tour hints strongly that Van Gogh had a serious thing for
> >Gauguin. I wonder if this had something to do with their split?
>
> I agree. I can't understand why someone would cut off their ear
> without very strong feelings being involved..
And here I thought that sort of thing suggested mental illness and not
one's sexual preference. Sheesh.
I wanted to go to Russian Tea Time and get the fishy plate afterwards
(can't remember what all is on it, but I do remember salmon roe and good
smoked fish and enough for two). It was the only thing I really liked
when I was there with a crowd from work. Alas, the combination of a cold
from hell and empty walletitis prevented us. Maybe next time.
regards,
trillium