Search results for: “not the usual Van Goghs”
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Not the usual Van Goghs #5
As I’ve pointed out in four previous posts — browsing through books, selections of prints or posters, and even some museum exhibitions, can give you the impression that Van Gogh’s oeuvre was somewhat limited, when nothing could be further from the facts. What you find is repetitions of his “greatest hits”. This is an unfortunate…
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Not the Usual Van Goghs #4
In making decisions about what images they will show, art directors, publishers, reproduction print makers, and even museums, will often limit themselves to the most popular images in an artist’s oeuvre, particularly when dealing with very popular artists. This leads to a condition I think of as the “Greatest Hits” syndrome; publishers don’t want to…
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Still more “not the usual Van Goghs”
Most of these can be found on WikiPaintings. See my previous posts on the subject, below.
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More “not the usual Van Goghs”
I’ve written before about how most book publishers tend to take a safe, “greatest hits” approach to publishing works by Vincent van Gogh, leaving much of the fascinating variety of his subjects unseen. In honor of Van Gogh’s birthday, here is another modest selection of some works of his you don’t often see. Most of…
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Not the usual Van Goghs
Browse through a dozen different books on Vincent van Gogh and chances are you’ll see many of the same paintings again and again. You might be tempted to think he had a limited oeuvre, but nothing could be further from the truth. Van Gogh was astonishingly prolific, particularly in light of the fact that his…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh pen & watercolor sketches
Gate at the Paris Ramparts, Entrance to the Moulin de la Galette, Vincent van Gogh Pencil, pen & ink, watercolor & gouache on paper, roughly 9 x 12″ (24 x 32 cm) and 12 x 9″ (31 x 24 cm), respectively. As I’ve mentioned in my previous posts on “Not the usual Van Goghs“, in…