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This choice selection of beautifully reproduced drawings spans the full length of van Gogh's brief but prolific career. The works range from his early impressions of peasant life to drawings that served as studies for the great canvases he painted at the close of his life, including Landscape with Cypresses and Starry Night.
Van Gogh's quest to be "alone with nature" and with those whose lives were close to the land took him first to the desolate reaches of northern Holland and ultimately to the sunlit fields and villages of southern France. The drawings presented in this book record the life, the land, and the people he encountered; familiar images to us through his paintings, yet startlingly fresh in these lesser-known works in another medium. Themes include peasants in their fields and cottages, village gardens, fishing boats, the postman Roulin, a drawbridge, fields of grain, a self-portrait, the house he lived in, the room he slept in, and the courtyard of the hospital in Arles.
Van Gogh Drawings offers a beautiful and stirring collection of work, one that clearly displays the artist's powerful affinity for the drawing medium. During the last six years of his life, his most productive period, van Gogh produced approximately 700 drawings and 800 paintings. Virtually unknown at his death, he had sold only one of this astonishing number of works. Now, a century later, they number among the most universally admired and prized of man’s creative achievements. The drawings presented here, chosen from museums and private collections around the world, dramatically record the brief journey of his life and the unfolding of his genius. The captions, which draw heavily upon information provided by Jan Hulsker in The Complete Van Gogh, list subject, date, medium, dimensions (in centimeters, height before width), and the institutions in which they are located. 44 black-and-white illustrations.
Van Gogh's quest to be "alone with nature" and with those whose lives were close to the land took him first to the desolate reaches of northern Holland and ultimately to the sunlit fields and villages of southern France. The drawings presented in this book record the life, the land, and the people he encountered; familiar images to us through his paintings, yet startlingly fresh in these lesser-known works in another medium. Themes include peasants in their fields and cottages, village gardens, fishing boats, the postman Roulin, a drawbridge, fields of grain, a self-portrait, the house he lived in, the room he slept in, and the courtyard of the hospital in Arles.
Van Gogh Drawings offers a beautiful and stirring collection of work, one that clearly displays the artist's powerful affinity for the drawing medium. During the last six years of his life, his most productive period, van Gogh produced approximately 700 drawings and 800 paintings. Virtually unknown at his death, he had sold only one of this astonishing number of works. Now, a century later, they number among the most universally admired and prized of man’s creative achievements. The drawings presented here, chosen from museums and private collections around the world, dramatically record the brief journey of his life and the unfolding of his genius. The captions, which draw heavily upon information provided by Jan Hulsker in The Complete Van Gogh, list subject, date, medium, dimensions (in centimeters, height before width), and the institutions in which they are located. 44 black-and-white illustrations.
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Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh (1853—1890) was a highly influential Dutch Post-Impressionist painter best known for his uniquely expressive brushwork and use of bold, dramatic colors. Van Gogh’s early life and formative adult years were marked by mundane security; he was born into an upper-middle class family, received a rounded education, and was able to make a living off of his interest in art by working as a dealer; however, while his employment provided the opportunity for travel, it also exacerbated his lifelong struggle with his mental health. It wasn’t until 1881—nine years before his death—that he began to produce his own art. His early work would consist mostly of still lifes and character studies but as he began to travel and become acquainted with new artistic communities, his art would become brazen and bright—capturing vivid portraits of the natural world. However, while Van Gogh would correspond and receive financial support from his younger brother, Theodorus, he often found himself skirting the line of poverty. His lack of commercial and financial success with his painting would lead him to neglect his physical and mental health, resulting in increased psychotic episodes and delusions; the worst of which ended with Van Gogh severing part of his own left ear. After a lifelong battle with depression, on July 27th, 1890, he went out into a wheat field where he had recently been painting and attempted suicide by shooting himself in the chest. Van Gogh would die from his injuries in his room at the Auberge Ravoux just two days later. In the aftermath of his death, Van Gogh’s story would—for better or worse—cement his legacy in the public imagination as the “tortured artist” and in the decades that followed his work would gain worldwide critical and commercial beyond what he could have ever imagined.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A show of his drawing style, line work and experiments in pointillism, also lists the various mediums that he worked with on paper. It gives insights into the drawings he made as practice for paintings like the Café Terrace at Night. especially useful text for those studying the art of drawing and painting.
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Van Gogh Drawings - Vincent Van Gogh
THE DOVER ART LIBRARY
PRE-RAPHAELITE DRAWINGS BY BURNE-JONES: 46 ILLUSTRATIONS, Edward Burne-Jones. (0-486-24113-0)
CHAGALL DRAWINGS: 43 WORKS, Marc Chagall. (0-486-41222-9)
LEONARDO DRAWINGS: 60 ILLUSTRATIONS, Leonardo da Vinci. (0-486-23951-9)
DEGAS DRAWINGS OF DANCERS: 47 PLATES, Edgar Degas. (0-486-40698-9)
GREAT DRAWINGS OF NUDES: 45 WORKS, Carol Belanger Grafton (ed.) (0-486-42766-8)
GREAT SELF-PORTRAITS: 45 WORKS, Carol Belanger Grafton (ed.). (0-486-42168-6)
HOLBEIN PORTRAIT DRAWINGS: 44 PLATES, Hans Holbein the Younger. (0-486-24937-9)
HOPPER DRAWINGS: 44 WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION OF THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, Edward Hopper. (0-486-25854-8)
INGRES PORTRAIT DRAWINGS: 44 PLATES, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. (0-486-27621-X)
MICHELANGELO LIFE DRAWINGS: 46 WORKS, Michelangelo Buonarroti. (0-486-23876-8)
MIRO LITHOGRAPHS: 40 ILLUSTRATIONS, Joan Miró. (0-486-24437-7)
PICASSO LINE DRAWINGS AND PRINTS: 44 ILLUSTRATIONS, Pablo Picasso. (0-486-24196-3)
PICASSO LITHOGRAPHS: 61 ILLUSTRATIONS, Pablo Picasso. (0-486-23949-7)
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