Van Gogh Paintings: The Masterpieces
by Belinda Thomson
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Author: Belinda ThomsonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-09-15
ISBN: 0500238383
Number of pages: 208
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
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Book Review: A deftly written and presented work of impeccable scholarship
Summary: 5 Stars
Superbly enhanced with the inclusion of more than 170 beautifully reproduced color illustrations, "Van Gogh Paintings: The Masterpieces" by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art expert Belinda Thomson showcases what are commonly acknowledged as the best works ever created by Van Gogh during his brief but brilliant career as an artist. While many of the works represented and discussed are drawn from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, there are also some lesser known examples drawn from other sources as well. "Van Gogh Paintings: The Masterpieces" also provides the reader with background information about the master painter, his engagements with his artistic peers of the day, his frequent periods of isolation, as well as his dealings with family and friends. "Van Gogh Paintings: The Masterpieces" is a deftly written and presented work of impeccable scholarship that is enthusiastically recommended for personal, academic, and community library Art History reference collections in general, and Van Gogh Studies supplemental reading lists in particular.
Summary of Van Gogh Paintings: The Masterpieces
The best of van Gogh's eternally popular paintings, gathered together in one magnificently produced volume.Nearly 120 years after his death, Vincent van Gogh and his work continue to exert a powerful fascination. This book offers the reader a selection of the artist's most unforgettable canvases as well as some lesser-known examples, many drawn from the collection of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. It explores the works in the context of van Gogh's short but brilliant career, in which frequent spells of isolation did not preclude lively engagement with his artistic peers and the ideas of his time.
Van Gogh's brush was guided by a remarkable, restless, and wide-ranging intelligence that found another outlet in the continuous stream of letters written to family and friends. The artist's correspondence-one of the most important archival resources of nineteenth-century art-provides the narrative thread around which this study develops. Belinda Thomson considers van Gogh as a cosmopolitan figure who combined in his art experiences and traditions absorbed in his native Netherlands and in Victorian England, and then succeeded in assimilating and making his mark on the practice of painting in France at one of its richest periods. 170 color illustrations.
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