Smithsonian Magazine on MSN3d
Why Did Vincent van Gogh Paint 26 Portraits of a Postman and His Family While Staying in the South of France?The artist met Joseph Roulin, a 47-year-old postal worker, in the late 1880s. The series of artworks will be reunited at ...
On 23 December, 1888, the day that Vincent van Gogh mutilated his ear and presented the severed portion to a sex worker, he was tended to by an unlikely soulmate: the postman Joseph Roulin.
Blake Gopnik recounts how the Albert Barnes Foundation started its collection of modern art via an excerpt from his book, ...
The famous painting from Dutch post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh has sparked controversy among physicists. Two decades ago, a pair of physicists stood in a museum in Madrid contemplating the ...
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Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’ held a secret — and scientists just discovered the ‘hidden turbulence’He really did gogh the extra mile. “The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric ...
The Associated Press on MSN17d
A new exhibition highlights how German artist Anselm Kiefer was inspired by Vincent van GoghAMSTERDAM (AP) — When he was just 17 years old, German artist Anselm Kiefer retraced the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh from the Netherlands through Belgium and into France. Now, more than half a ...
Although Vincent Van Gogh was born in the Netherlands, it was in France that the Dutch painter produced his most famous pieces, so much so that he is often considered a French artist. Inspired by ...
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