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DIFFERENT STROKES.
Vincent van Gogh's favorite color was yellow; Paul Gauguin's was red. It was not a trivial difference. It pertains to the clashing, deeply complementary temperaments of two painters whose idiosyncrasies, inseparable from their talents and ideas, became keynotes of modern art and templates of artistic personality. Little about either man fails to fascinate. Both came late to art: Gauguin, the elder by five years, after fitful success as a sailor, financial trader, and family man--he met Impressionist painters first as a collector of their work, then as a protege--and van Gogh after failures as an art dealer's assistant and a Protestant preacher. Gauguin was short but ...
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