Evening star., 1937-12-14

Inc TOnaIu1C career OF raul (Iau.
suin, globe-trotting French artist,
was one of the features last night of
the weekly radio broadcast on The
Stars art appreciation campaign.
Henry Wadsworth Moore, president
Of the Washington Landscape Club,
portrait painter and muraliSt, was
the central figure on the tenth radio
art program, his second in behalf of
the movement inaugurated by The
Star to make art universal in Wash
ington.
Replying to questions by James E.
Chinn of The Star reportorial staff,
Mr.. Moore recounted dramatic human
interest incidents from the lives of
the four French artists of the last
quarter of the 10th century whose
work features the tenth set of color
reproduction in the art project.
One of the pictures in this set is
Gauguins "Tahitian Women" painted
during the latter years of his life
when he lived among the natives of
the South Sea Islands Gauguin died
in 1908.
Gauguin's life was different from
that of Paul CeZanne. Auguste Renoir
and Vincent Van Gogh, the other
artists in this weeks group, Mr..
Moore said. 1t reads like romantic
novel-in fact, a romantic novel has
been written about it. Gauguin
termed himself "a child and a savage.
He was never settled. He was a born
globe trotter. He even abandoned his
wife and family for a life of art in
a tropical paradise.
las child, his French parents took
him to Peru" Mr.. Moore recounted
When Gauguin was grown, his
family returned to France. Paul
hated school and went as an ordinary
sailor into the merchant marine.
Later he worked for a Paris brokerage
house.
Where does the art come imp"
Mr.. Chinn inquired
After Paul was married." replied
the artist. He married a lovely Da-
nlsh girl whom he met in a restau-
rant. They had five children. Gau-
gum painted on Sundays. His friends
were the modernists-Monet, Cezanne.
Manet, and others At IS he was
wealthy in business. From now on
am going to paint every day. he told
his friends. He sent his wife and
family to Copenhagen. Sad to relate,
he almost starved"
From this point Mr. Moore traced
Gauguln to Panama. where he worked
as a laborer digging the Panama Ca
nal; to Martinique in the West In
dies: back to France, another attack
OF reStleSsnesS and then off to Tahiti
In the South Seas, deserting his wife
and children. On a Pacific island he
went native and took a native wife.
Eventually he died on the island, a
victim of disease.
Cezanne Was Despised.
Discussing Cezanne, whose THE
Blue Vase" is in this weeks set, Mr..
Moore said: Authorities will differ
on Cezanne for centuries to come.
While he was alive he was despised
Only small measure of success came
before his death in 1905" The Wash
ington artist identified Cezanne and
the others as post-imnressionists who
advanced the new school Of art in
which colors played such a prominent
part lin painting impressions" of
scenes and objects.
Luckily" said Mr.. Moore, "Ce-
cannes father was banker. Other
wise the painter would have starved
to death at an early age He had no
practical sense and, what was worse,
he was an unpopular painter. Often
his friends deserted him. One was
Emile zola, the great novelist,
friend from childhood Zola put in a
closet the pictures Cezanne had given
him. He had friends who were artists
and their comments caused Zola too
much pain"
CeZanne was described as highly
temperamental, given to fits of vio-
lence in which he would destroy his
own pictures. His struggle for recog-
milton covered a 40-year period. 1t
was not until 1904 that he had an en-
tire room in the Salon-the symbol
Of recognition for artists in France
In which to display his pictures.
To-day" said Mr. Moore, "Cezanne's
pictures are in the Louvre Many
authorities hold him to be one of the
great modern painters"
The other pictures issued this week
by The Star and the National Com
mittee for Art Appreciation are: Van
Goghs THE Drawbridge" and Re-
noir's by the 'Seashore."
The opposite of Sezanne, Renoir