Overview
āImportant . . .Ā inspires us to look at Van Gogh and his art afresh.āāDr. Chris Stolwijk, general director, RKDāNetherlands Institute for Art History
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Vincent van Goghās paintings look utterly uniqueāhis vivid palette and boldly interpretive portraits are unmistakably his. Yet however revolutionary his style may have been, it was actually built on a strong foundation of paintings by other artists, both his contemporaries and those who came before him.Ā
Now, drawing on Van Goghās own thoughtful and often profound comments about the painters he venerated, Steven Naifeh gives a gripping account of the artistās deep engagement with their work. We see Van Goghās gradual discovery of the subjects he would make famous, from wheat fields to sunflowers. We watch him experimenting with the loose brushwork and bright colors used by Ćdouard Manet, studying the Pointillist dots used by Georges Seurat, and emulating the powerful depictions of the peasant farmers painted by Jean-FranƧois Millet, all vividly illustrated in nearly three hundred full-color images of works by Van Gogh and a variety of other major artists, including Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, positioned side by side.Ā
Thanks to the vast correspondence from Van Gogh to his beloved brother, Theo, Naifeh, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is able to reconstruct Van Goghās artistic world from within. Observed in eloquent prose that is as compelling as it is authoritative, Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved enables us to share the artistās journey as he created his own daring, influential, and widely beloved body of work.
This book title, Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved, ISBN: 9780593356678, by Steven Naifeh, published by Random House Publishing Group (November 2, 2021) is available in hardcover. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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