Vincent Van Gogh - The Complete Paintings 1. (töredék)

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This man will either go insane or leave us all far behind, prophesied Camille Pis-sarro. The man was Vincent van Gogh, a vicar's son born at Zundert near Breda in Holland in 18 5 3. Today he has long been recognised as one of the great precursors of modern art.
Volume I of this complete edition of the paintings includes 376 colour and 102 black and white illustrations documenting the making of an artist. The study follows van Gogh from the first drawings made in a mining community where he was a lay preacher, through the gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, to the bright and colourful paintings he did in Paris. Towards the end of the 19 th century, Paris was the great aesthetic crucible: Impressionism, Pointillism, and Japonism were among the movements van Gogh encountered there. Bombarded by influences from every quarter, van Gogh tried out a number of approaches and techniques before leaving for Aries in February 1888... Tovább

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This man will either go insane or leave us all far behind, prophesied Camille Pis-sarro. The man was Vincent van Gogh, a vicar's son born at Zundert near Breda in Holland in 18 5 3. Today he has long been recognised as one of the great precursors of modern art.
Volume I of this complete edition of the paintings includes 376 colour and 102 black and white illustrations documenting the making of an artist. The study follows van Gogh from the first drawings made in a mining community where he was a lay preacher, through the gloom-laden paintings in which he captured the misery of peasants and workers in his home parts, to the bright and colourful paintings he did in Paris. Towards the end of the 19 th century, Paris was the great aesthetic crucible: Impressionism, Pointillism, and Japonism were among the movements van Gogh encountered there. Bombarded by influences from every quarter, van Gogh tried out a number of approaches and techniques before leaving for Aries in February 1888 in search of a new style in the colourful brightness of the south.
Ingo F. Walther was born in Berlin in 1940 and read Mediaeval Studies, Literature and Art History in Frankfurt and Munich. He has worked in publishing and on international exhibition catalogues, and currently works as a writer, editor and publisher in Ailing near Munich.
Rainer Metzger was born in Landshut in 1961 and studied Art History, History and German in Munich and Augsburg. He has contributed essays to a number of exhibition catalogues and works as a journalist and writer in Munich. Vissza