Van Gogh sought to evoke the character and soul of the sitter.
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In the early years of the 20th century, four painters left behind a drab grey Presbyterian Scotland for the exciting avant-garde scene in Paris and changed Scottish painting forever.
Trial lawyers, like artists, have to connect with different audiences and push them to look at legal issues, people and ideologies in new ways.
The exhibition is a fascinating reflection of Dutch taste over the past century and a half.
If you see one exhibition this year, make it Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers at the National Gallery in London.
The work of Van Gogh’s final years when he was struggling with his mental health, shimmer with life, colour and poetic expression.
A psychiatrist explains the many ways anxiety can hinder, color or compel creativity.
His letters reveal a man straining under pressure from his parents to help better their family name.
Museums have pushed the narrative of Vincent van Gogh as a ‘tortured genius’ for decades, but in its 50th year the Van Gogh Museum is questioning this approach.
It might be provocative but this sort of direct action is important.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is the 14th largest gallery in the world, and now Melbourne can see some of its masterpieces.
The blasting of giant reproductions with surround sound is an experience that has little to do with the art it purports to honour.
Researchers have found a way to reduce light damage to artworks by up to 47% by optimising LEDs to prevent light from being absorbed by the artwork.
Hokusai’s Great Wave is the enduring image of Japanese art. Less well known is the story of its primary pigment - Prussian blue - which was created in a lab accident in Berlin and sparked ‘blue fever’ in Europe.
Van Gogh’s immersion in the natural world, for his art and for its therapeutic effects, saw him observe in minute detail the changing of the seasons.
Edgar Degas was fascinated with women’s bodies. Whether dancing, ironing or bathing, he captured these intimate moments with a voyeur’s detached scrutiny.
Many suspect Van Gogh suffered from foxglove extract overdose due to the yellow halos in his paintings and his portrait of his physician holding the plant.
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Personal Chair of 19th-Century Art, History of Art, University of Edinburgh
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Director of Artificial Intelligence Initiatives, University of Michigan
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