Search results for: “van gogh”
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh’s painted copy of Hiroshige print
Bridge in the rain: after Hiroshige, Vincent van Gogh. Zoomable image on Google Art Project; downloadable file on Wikipedia; original is in the Van Gogh Museum. Sudden shower over Shin-Ohashi bridge and Atake, Utagawa Hiroshige; file on Wikipedia. About mid-way through his all too short career, Vincent van Gogh, like many of the French Impressionists…
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh Autumn landscape
Autumn Landscape with Four Trees, Vincent van Gogh You might come across versions of this image on the web that are much more colorful — with bright oranges and reds — but despite Van Gogh’s penchant for brilliantly high-chroma paintings in his later career, I don’t believe that’s the case here. I haven’t see the…
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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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Van Gogh “selfies” (Self-portraits #9)
In his short career, spanning just 10 years, Vincent van Gogh painted a remarkable series of self-portraits, chronicling not only his evolution as a painter, but his often troubled emotional states. For a more complete list, see this page on Wikipedia.
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Van Gogh Shadow, Luca Agnani
Van Gogh Shadow is a short (3 minute) film by video artist Luca Agnani, in which he has used CGI to add animation and lighting effects to thirteen of Van Gogh’s paintings. At the very least, a fascinating experiment. (Also of interest, see my 2010 post about Tilt-Shift Van Gogh.) [Via Cartoon Brew]