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For readers who've little time to spare and are averse to art-world jargon, this sequence goals to supply an enjoyable consultant to person artists and pa tradition. every one quantity offers an account of the artist's lifestyles, own anecdotes, concise definitions of cultural and social pursuits that formed the artist's paintings, and color reproductions. This e-book explores how Van Gogh, son of a priest, together with his personal failed goals of turning into one, emerged as one of many world's nice painters and an art-world icon. It discusses his maximum passions, how he felt approximately promoting just one portray in the course of his lifetime, and why he painted his most lovely flower photographs through the so much anguished interval of his lifestyles.
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He's a on Monday, February 20, 1888. Too much smoking and winter cold. In his search for Physically, drinking, and sick from the restoration through warmth and sunshine, he's crushed to find Aries in the midst of an unusual and s-*-^. heavy snowstorm. - ; look Souvenir de Mauve. 1888 He disappointment with as rents a room above The and records his makes Southern France bleak as the banlieue of Paris. ) Eventually the weather artist. 5 cm) find in the Aries of his mind. Orchards in Bloom Between March and April 1888, Van Gogh makes fourteen paintings of fruit trees in bloom.
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45 NY Top Collection Kroller-Muller Museum, Ottcrlo. The Netherlands © The Britsh Museum Bottom Left: The British Museum, London. Bottom Right: Musee d'Orsay, Paris. Scala/Art Resource, NY A Dutchman in bohemian In the midst of lonely Paris Paris, Van Gogh fancies himself to be the Dutchman: OPPOSITE TOP La he tramps around the fringes of the city Butte Montmartre 1886 14 Vs x 24" (36 x 61 cm) he hangs out in divey bars he makes dozens of searching self-portraits BOTTOM LEFT He's soaking up new but very possibilities in art, much on his own Suburb of Paris near terms, starting with the landscape.