The Final, Glorious, Days of Van Gogh

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Vincent Van Gogh spent the last two months of his life
in Auvers-sur-Oise, a small village north of Paris, surrounded by hills, forests and wheat fields. Looked after by an art-loving doctor, Paul Gachet, and inspired by the summer glory of the landscape, Van Gogh entered a final, frenetic period of productivity, finishing around a painting a day. Though they would break no new ground stylistically, Van Gogh's late works capture a remarkable range of moods, from spring-like restlessness to autumnal despair.

Madrid's Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza has mounted the first major show devoted to Van Gogh's final period. "Van ...


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Vincent Van Gogh a passé les deux derniers mois de sa vie
dans l'Auvers-sur-Oise, un petit nord de village de Paris, entouré par des collines, des forêts et des champs de blé. Occupé par un docteur art-affectueux, Paul Gachet, et inspiré par la gloire d'été du paysage, Van Gogh a écrit une période finale et frénétique de la productivité, finissant autour d'une peinture par jour. Bien qu'ils ne cassent aucune nouvelle terre stylistiquement, les travaux en retard de Van Gogh's capturent une gamme remarquable des modes, de ressort-comme l'agitation au désespoir automnal.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza de Madrid a monté la première exposition principale consacrée à la période finale de Van Gogh's. « Fourgon…


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Oil on canvas

Pablo Picasso

Picasso and Tapestry

In the 1930’s and then again after WWII, France witnessed a renewed interest in

tapestry and many artists explored this new medium, generally made of wool, in

high or low-warp.

Marie Cuttoli was the first to solicit Picasso and had tapestries made from the

artist’s works she bought, such as the collage “Minotaure” kept in the MNAM

(National Museum of Modern Art) in Paris (woven version at the Picasso Museum

in Antibes, which owns several tapestries after Picasso).

After the war, Pierre Baudouin also developed a passion for this technique and

made possible the production, by the Manufacture des Gobelins, of “Women at

their Toilet”, a project started before the war which had remained unachieved.

Some workshops, such as those of Cauquil-Prince and Dürbach, also made

tapestries from Picasso’s major works such as Guernica, The Demoiselles

d’Avignon, the Minotauromachy.

Picasso’s collaboration took two forms:

1/ He made an “original” cartoon to have it woven

2/ He grants a workshop the right to weave a tapestry form a pre-existing work

In both cases, the edition was limited to eight copies.

The most frequent case is that of the transposed pre-existing work. Picasso in the

end only made but a few specific cartoons, among which “Confidences” (1934,

MNAM) and “Woman at their Toilet” (1938, Picasso Museum, Paris)

The transcription and long production process, often lasting several years, only

gave birth in general to 3 or 4 copies of each tapestry for the most complex

designs.

A strip of cloth or a “bolduc” is sewn at the back of the tapestry indicating the name

and the autograph signature of Picasso, the title and the dimensions of the work as

well as the name of the tapestry workshop and the number of the edition. Only

these duly certified tapestries are considered original and subject to the resale

right.

These tapestries are not to be mistaken for unsigned industrially-manufactured

ornamental carpets which are merchandising products.

Sources:

• http://www.picasso.fr/anglais/
• http://www.philamuseum.org/

Vincent

Van Gogh Quotes
"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed."

"An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men."

"The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism."

"There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even-the French air clears up the brain and does good-a world of good."

"If ... boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?"
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."

"There is no blue without yellow and without orange."

"It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to.... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures."

"I can't work without a model. I won't say I turn my back on nature ruthlessly in order to turn a study into a picture, arranging the colors, enlarging and simplifying; but in the matter of form I am too afraid of departing from the possible and the true."

"We spend our whole lives in unconscious exercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words."
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Link to Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

Pierre Auguste Renoir

Bouquet Of Roses 1879

The Sleeper 1897

After The Bath 1888

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Baroque Art

The Church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, is a very good example of Baroque architechture with its domed roof and curved countours, and is also a fine example of Baroque painting with the shown altar, which portrays a very dramatized painting of Saint Andrew being crucified.

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Wikipedia

HIdden Von Gogh Pinting

For years, art scholars pondered a mystery: Did Vincent van Gogh create a painting that matches a sketch in Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum?

Now a conservator at the Museum of Fine Arts has discovered the lost painting, but museumgoers will never be able to see it: The painting lies underneath another van Gogh long on display at the MFA, the museum announced yesterday. -Read more-

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• http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/08/04/hidden_van_gogh_found_at_mfa/

Italy: Looted Art Values...

ROME -
Efforts to tackle art trafficking "make looting more attractive" as a tighter black market has raised the value of the booty, Italy's culture minister said Thursday, a day after reaching a historic agreement with the J. Paul Getty Museum to recover some lost treasures.

-Read more-

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• http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/08/02/ap3982197.html

Photographed by Me

News/Late Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh

Van Gogh was murdered in Amsterdam while bicycling to work. Shot and stabbed, he was found in the street with a knife plunged into his chest. The man who confessed to his murder said in court that he killed van Gogh because he had insulted Islam.

Van Gogh was 47 years old and died on Nov. 2, 2004.

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What's on Iceland?

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Visit da Vinci's Museum Online

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• http://www.museoscienza.org/english/

Estate Sued Over "Stranglehold" on the Art Market

http://www.towleroad.com/2007/07/warhol-estate-s.html

Renoir-Impressionist

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• http://www.renoir.org.yu/

Van Gogh, Degas & Picasso Drawings At The Hyde

Renoir

Vincent Van Gogh

Anonymous gift to The Murray Collection

George McNeil, American (1908-1995), The city weeps, 1993 Acrylic on panel.

• Source:
  http://antiquesandthearts.com/Antiques/TradeTalk/2007-07-17__09-11-38.html
  

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• http://www.hydecollection.org/collections/details-image.cfm?ID=13
  

Renoir Landscape

Art Videos

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Summer of Love

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Wonderful Art by Cirque du Soleil

Lucy swoops on a trapeze across a sky twinkling with diamonds, Mr. Kite presides over a psychedelic circus of stiltwalkers and acrobats, and the unmistakable voices of John, Paul, George and Ringo fill the surround sound-equipped arena.