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Vincent Van Gogh is hands down our favorite artist.
\n Visiting the Van Gogh museum is a wild ride through the perceptual dissolution
\n of a staggering genius. Over a hundred paintings spanning the artist’s
\n brief active career are displayed simply, in chronological order. Moving through the gallery one can watch
\n his vision evolve and refract from dark realism to unfiltered visions
\n of an alternate view of reality. It is a soul-wrenching, perception-altering
\n experience.<\/p>\n
Obviously, in addition to color and style (for the record,
\n the Dowbrigade is seriously color-blind and equipped with a questionable
\n sense of style) the attraction of Van Gogh’s art is its total erasure of
\n the fine line between genius and madness. This seems to us an eminently
\n adult, potentially troublesome topic, so we were somewhat surprised to see
\n that Barbara Feldman’s latest "Surfing the Net With Kids" column in the
\n Boston
\n Globe
\n (no link in the electronic edition) was about old Vincent. However, after thinking about it, we realize it’s never too early to teach kids how tenuous and temporary sanity can be in an insane world, even if it does scare the shit out of the little tykes.\n<\/p>\n
Besides giving us an excuse to post one of the great Self-Portraits Also, a direct link to the Van Finally, the National Vincent Van Gogh is hands down our favorite artist. Visiting the Van Gogh museum is a wild ride through the perceptual dissolution of a staggering genius. Over a hundred paintings spanning the artist’s brief active career are displayed simply, in … Continue reading
\n (from 1887), the article included links to some great Van Gogh sites, including
\n David Brook’s eight-year labor of love, a Complete
\n Online Catalog<\/a> with every
\n one of Van Gogh’s 864 paintings, 1,037 drawings, 150 watercolors, 133 sketches
\n and 10 lithographs.<\/p>\n
\n Gogh Museum<\/a> in Amsterdam
\n features an amazing new multimedia exhibit called "Van Gogh and Gauguin"
\n as well as a 3-D walkthrough of the physical museum (windows only).<\/p>\n
\n Gallery of Art<\/a> in Washington had
\n a visiting exhibit of 72 Van Goghs which closed in 1999, but the virtual
\n version is
\n still
\n up, with a very nice QuickTime tour with audio commentary about each painting. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"