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Vincent Willem van Gogh (March 30, 1853–July 29, 1890) was a Dutch painter, classified as a Post-Impressionist. His world-famous, immediately recognizable paintings show the objects, people and places in his life with bold, usually distorted, draughtsmanship and visible dotted or dashed brushmarks, which are intensely yet subtly coloured.
He is popularly known as much for his embodiment of the stereotype of the tortured romantic artist as he is for his work, which is seen as the visual expression of his life. Although his life is well-documented, there are several common false beliefs about him, including the myth that he cut off his ear (it was only the lobe), that he killed himself because no one recognized his talent (in the last six months of his life he received generous accolades which he found very disturbing), and that he painted as he did because he was mad (he painted during his lucid periods).
He produced all of his work—some 900 paintings and 1100 drawings—during the ten year period before he committed suicide. Most of his best-known work was produced in the final two years of his life. In the two months before his death he painted 90 pictures.
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Volume 21, number 2: Copley's Cargo
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In 1765, John Singleton Copley sent his painting Henry Pelham (Boy with a Squirrel) from Boston to London in hopes of receiving feedback from the arbiters of academic aesthetics. Several months later, he received the welcome news that Sir Joshua Reynolds had called the painting "wonderfull." In virtually every scholarly narrative of early American art, Boy with a Squirrel derives its canonical significance from this famous transatlantic relay. But the most basic reality of that relay–the massive fact of the Atlantic Ocean standing between Copley and his interlocutors–has barely been registered in the scholarship.This essay interprets Boy with a Squirrel in terms of the difficulty and delicacy of its transatlantic transmission. I argue that Copley, as he attempted to create a painting that would have the necessary transitive qualities, drew from an array of familiar discourses of Atlantic exchange and transport. The painting's profile format evoked strategies of numismatic exchange. The precise representation of the flying squirrel tapped into well-established transatlantic natural history circuits. The spatial transformations of the composition echoed not only empiricist theories of sensory conveyance (especially the writings of George Berkeley), but also mirrored the workaday dynamics of the shipping and reassembly of transatlantic commodities. Copley, like many other colonial artists, worked in a global community governed by distance, difference, and delay. By attending to the vehicular context of Boy with a Squirrel, we can begin to understand his strategies for articulating–and navigating–that new global space.
All Van Gogh's Letters - Unabridged and annotated. Search for words, browse by subject. Includes art, attitude, emotion, health, and calendar.
Art on Stamps - Self Portraits of Van Gogh - Brief biography and images of the postal stamps.
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Artchive: Van Gogh - Dozens of scans, critical articles, and online resources featuring Vincent's art.
Artcyclopedia: Vincent van Gogh's Works on the Net - Links to van Gogh's paintings which can be viewed online at over 50 art museum sites and image archives worldwide.
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Encyclopedia.com - Results for Van Gogh, Vincent - A short description of Van Gogh's life with additional links to related material.
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Four Ways to Look at Van Gogh - Article from the Washington Post
Images of Vincent Van Gogh - Van Gogh's work with external links to related books and biography.
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Missing Masterpieces - Review and information about the Van Gogh exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. 1998 - 1999.
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Smithsonian Magazine: Strange Bedfellows - New exhibition tracks the turbulent nine weeks that Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived and painted together.
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The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery - A comprehensive resource for information about Van Gogh and images of his works. Has images of all the paintings, sketches, watercolours, letter sketches, and early works created by the artist.
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Troubled Life Of Vincent Van Gogh - Van Gogh's personal life, mental illness, eventual suicide and how these are reflected in his work.
Van Gogh at Etten - Focused on Van Gogh's life in Etten, a small village in the south of the Netherlands, where he started his career as an artist. Also in Dutch.
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Van Gogh at the Heart's Ease Post-Impressionist Gallery - Biography, representative works and suggested further resources for post-impressionist painter van Gogh.
Van Gogh Museum - The artist's life and times, exhibitions and the Museum's collection.
Van Gogh's Bedroom - An interesting interpretation of one of Van Gogh's most famous works of art. Takes the visitor on a 3D tour of Van Gogh's bedroom.
Van Gogh's Final Days - Excerpted chapter from Van Gogh in Provence and Auvers, the illustrated book by Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov.
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Van Gogh: Face to Face - From the 2000 portrait exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Features an online gallery.
Van Gogh: Genius Ignored - Van Gogh was an indisputable genius and utterly ignored. He created hundreds of bold, brilliant paintings; only one was sold during his lifetime.
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Vincent van Gogh - Pictures of a few famous artist's works and biography.
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Vincent van Gogh - Artist's biography.
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Vincent van Gogh - Art Professor - Artist's biography.
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Vincent van Gogh - Olga's Gallery - Comprehensive collection of the images of Van Gogh's works with biography and historical comments.
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Vincent Van Gogh 1853 - 1890 - Image resource of various paintings created by Van Gogh. These are a collection of the website owners favourites.
Vincent van Gogh Paintings Project - Online collection of paintings made by the artist in Paris and Arles.
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Vincent Van Gogh: An Online Exhibition - Van Gogh's most popular and significant paintings organized into eight galleries.
Virtual Art Museum: Vincent Van Gogh - Concise resource for images and descriptions thereof.
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Whose Eye Do You Trust? - Van Gogh's Sunflowers, has been rumoured to be a fake. Read this authors impression of the two sides of the story.
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