Nevertheless, art museums can be a drag. Even the Vincent Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, where every painting bursts with personality, suffers from what I would call “the museum effect,” the ...
Sunflowers (1889), Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA, and SOMPO Museum of Art, Japan Vincent van Gogh painted not one but three canvasses of Sunflowers in early 1889 ...
Art historians may one day regard Spector’s counter offer to the Van Gogh request as playing with the idea of conceptual art. Although the White House studiously ignored the loan offer ...
Vincent Van Gogh needs no introduction when it comes to discussing art history. Hailed as one of the field’s geniuses within the Western landscape, his works are still as generously revered by critics ...
The fateful final days of painter Vincent van Gogh in France’s Auvers-sur-Oise are given a sober rendering by writer-director Maurice Pialat. Jacques Dutronc (Every Man for Himself, Merci pour le ...
Van Gogh’s ink strokes are similar to his paintings: short cross hatches, lines, and energetic dots to convey energy and texture. The lines and textures vary from light to dark to form the shape of ...
Expertly curated by Northern European art specialist Tico Seifert, Dürer to Van Dyck speaks to the great ... The first (a simple pen and ink drawing) seems – as Seifert suggests – to have ...
Parmigianino made many drawings to work out his final composition. They range from velvety chalk studies to swirling pen and ink sketches. We reunite a variety of them with the painting for the first ...