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Van Gogh (Art in Hand)

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These stickers are approx. 1 3/4" x 2 3/4" and include the title of the painting and artist name.They are clear, good quality despite being sticker size. There are many applications for these including stationary, envelopes, etc. or make great stocking stuffers.

Beautiful and affordable. They make wonderful additions to letters for friends, and my young son likes to make his own stationery with them. We also contributed some art stickers by Matisse and Degas to his classroom for a celebration of spring.

Nicely illustrated and easy to read. I often enjoy only the plates in art history books however I found the text interesting as well in this book.

This apprehensive text shows us with crucial detail the in and outs of this disturbed artist. His tragic life, disillusions, convulsions, mental illness and steeled conviction.

Within the short span of ten years (1880-1890), van Gogh created an unknown -by then- pictorial universe, paving the way to fauvism and countless painters visibly influenced by his inimitable style, where the intensity of color was the pivot to carve in relief an expressive rank of unseen landscapes.

The deep imapct of his craft was extremely close to the advent of the well known German Expressionism movement at the treshold of the century.

Beaujean not only limited himself to write an intense biography, besides he gave an abundant information about diverse painters who accompanied him through his troubled existence. It includes also an invaluable information about until this date has been the most complete van Gogh's retrospective in Bernhelm Jeune, 1901.

You will be able to watch a brilliant compilation of his most famous works as well as neccesary biographical aspect that conform a full-rounded book.

Indispensable in your library.

Vincent van Gogh is one of the truly influential painters of his day and painted art revealing complex spirituality and intense emotion that continue to impress art students, connoisseurs, and artists today. He was able to imbue his work with his own psychological presence as is especially evidenced in his many self-portraits. In Van Gogh, art historian and Post-Impressionist expert Belinda Thompson has assembled his paintings and works drawn from the archives and collections of the Art Institute Of Chicago including such famous works as an 1887 Self-Portrait, The Bedroom, and Madame Roulin Rocking the Cradle. Thirty of the images are reproduced in full color, together with another twenty-two duotone comparative illustrations. Van Gogh is further enhanced for the reader with an informative account tracing the great artist's development as a painter in Holland, England, and France in a career that was to last less than a decade. Van Gogh is a very highly recommended addition to any personal, academic, or community library Post-Impressionist art history reference collection in general, and to Vincent van Gogh enthusiasts in particular.