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Van Gogh sought to evoke the character and soul of the sitter.
Van Gogh’s painting was inspired by French artist Jean-Francois Millet’s 1860 painting. But he transformed Millet’s composition into an image of hope.
The exhibition is a fascinating reflection of Dutch taste over the past century and a half.
Despite his mental anguish, Van Gogh produced some of his greatest paintings in the last few months of his life.
His letters reveal a man straining under pressure from his parents to help better their family name.
An art historian explains how Vincent van Gogh went from an unknown painter to one of the world’s most expensive artists.
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.
Edwina Preston pays tribute to the humble letter: from literary love letters to philosophical lessons to cherished family heirlooms. Letters impart lessons, reveal character – and are a form of art.
For many years the British government resisted requests for the UK’s National Gallery to tour its collection, one of the world’s greatest. Now 61 of these works can be seen in Canberra.
The blasting of giant reproductions with surround sound is an experience that has little to do with the art it purports to honour.
Standing out among the crowd of recent artist biopics, the new film Never Look Away peels back some unhelpful tropes that have blinkered our understanding of the artist’s process.
John Russell, who was destined to become an engineer, instead became an artist in fin de siècle France – and a friend of Van Gogh, Monet and Rodin.
An old Scottish master has revealed its secret after 430 years. What next from art detectives?
A labour of love, this groundbreaking animation took six years and hundreds of artists to bring Vincent Van Gogh’s vivid paintings to life.
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.
The pickers and sinewy olives in this painting all strain upward towards the hope of spiritual salvation. But six months after he completed it, Vincent Van Gogh walked out into a wheat field and shot himself.
‘African Guernica’ is an incredibly powerful work of art in many ways, importantly filling that space between the visible and the visible.
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