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New Van Gogh discovered
The Van Gogh Museum in Amstedam has confirmed the attribution of a painting titled Sunset at Montmajour, formerly thought to be a fake and long stored in a private attic, as a genuine Van Gogh. (Another fine addition to Not the usual Van Goghs.)
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Eye Candy for Today: Van Gogh View of Paris
View of Paris, Vincent van Gogh. Every time you think you know Van Gogh, he turns around and surprises you. From the Van Gogh Museum. On Google Art Project.
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Van Gogh: Up Close
As I’ve suggested before, Vincent van Gogh’s work was much more varied and diverse than most books on the artist, which tend to take the safe path of presenting his “greatest hits” over and over, would lead you to believe. Van Gogh: Up Close, an exhibition that is toward the end of its run at…
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Did Van Gogh have protanomal color deficiency?
About 8 percent of male human beings, and a much smaller 0.5 percent of females, have some form of color vision deficiency, commonly called “color blindness”, in which the perception of colors is limited or altered in some way compared to the general population. It has been suggested at times that Vincent van Gogh’s unusual…
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Van Gogh on 60 Minutes/Overtime
This Sunday, October 16, 2011, the CBS TV newsmagazine 60 Minutes is doing a feature on Vincent van Gogh, focusing on a new biography, Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, that suggests Van Gogh may not have taken his own life as has been commonly assumed. Immediately after the television…
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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…