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An island paradise in Boston.(Art)(Boston Museum of Fine Arts exhibition of paintings by Paul Gauguin)
Poor Paul Gauguin. Not only do most undergraduates persist in spelling his name without the second "u" but he is also a victim of what a colleague calls the "Van Gogh's Ear Syndrome"--or, in this case, the "Polynesian Babe Syndrome?' Thanks to popular novels and movies, we know that Gauguin looked like Anthony Quinn, behaved badly a lot of the time, and called himself "a savage." We know that he was Van Gogh's roommate in Aries, that they fought bitterly (see "Ear Syndrome") and that afterwards, Ganguin went off to the South Seas to live by plucking fruit from the trees, surrounded by golden-skinned maidens who served as models and lovers, painting faithful images of an ...
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