Vincent van Gogh: The Painter and the Portrait, produced in conjunction with the international loan exhibition Van Gogh: Face to Face, explores the artist's changing conception of the portrait from his first experiments with drawing character studies around 1880 to his astonishing explorations of expressive color at the end of the decade. Illustrated with more than 50 color plates, the text incorporates selections from van Gogh's extraordinary letters, bringing the artist's singular vision of portraiture to life. This beautiful collection features portraits of the artist, his friends, neighbors, family, and other figures from his daily life offering the reader an opportunity to see inside van Gogh's world, so passionately evoked in his canvases.
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George T.M. Shackelford is Chair of the department of the Art of Europe at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A scholar of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, he is one of the curators of the exhibition Van Gogh: Face to Face.
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Explores the artist's changing view,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vincent Van Gogh: The Painter and the Portraits (Hardcover)
Vincent Van Gogh: Painter & Portrait accompanies the international loan exhibition and explores the artist's changing view of how the portrait was produced. From his first experiments with character studies around 1880 to his transition to new media and representations, this includes pieces from the artist's letters to provide a fine portrait of Van Gogh's perspective.
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Vincent van Gogh...G.T. Shckelford. Universe (small edition,
By Nina Holland (Saranac Lake, NY USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Vincent Van Gogh: The Painter and the Portraits (Hardcover)
The eight by seven and a half format makes it easy to carry around and digest, but tasty enough to encourage the reader to look up more of Van Gogh's letters than those quoted, and references to other paintings. The overview of his Van Gogh's life emphasizes his intellect and relationship with other art lovers rather than illness and matters of the heart. What I love about this book are the close-up reproductions that clearly show details, like how Van Gogh painted the eye, sometimes very photographically, other times as a single stroke. A series of portraits like those of Postman Roulin illuminate the intensity of van Gogh's passion to conquer composition and color. Both words and pictures offer surprises for even those familiar with van Gogh's life and work.
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