Lust for Life (film) scheme, noting the design team "consciously made the flow of color and the interplay of compositions and hues the most forceful devices for conveying a motion picture comprehension of van Gogh." "Variety" said, "This is a slow-moving picture whose only action is in the dialog itself. Basically a faithful portrait of Van Gogh, "Lust for Life" is nonetheless unexciting. It misses out in conveying the color and entertainment of the original Irving Stone novel." "Harrison's Reports" wrote that the film had been given "an excellent production" and that "Kirk Douglas does outstanding work as Van Gogh, and Anthony Quinn is
Posthumous fame of Vincent van Gogh and asked Isaacson to stop writing about him. But there was no chance to turn the wheel back: January 1890 - in the first issue refounding the "Mercure de France" - Albert Aurier published his enthusiastic essay 'Les Isolés: Vincent van Gogh', on which Vincent's fame as an artist is based as well as Aurier's as a leading art critic. Another voice was that of Octave Mirbeau whose review article 'Vincent van Gogh' in "L'Echo de Paris" on 1 March 1891. Later that year Van Gogh's friend Émile Bernard contributed short pieces on Van Gogh for "La Plume" and "Les