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Mathijs
Quite funny actually. It was considered 'fake' for the last 100 years as just about any and all expert considered it 'too ugly' and 'too badly made' to be a Van Gogh. Now it turns out the be real, and all I read is that it is most frigging amazing important super duper fantastic incredible worth-at-least 2 trilion billion dollars work.
Let's be fair: it's ugly, Van Gogh wrote it is a failure, all colours have dissapeared over time, it is crap. It just shows how the art world is just a bunch of crap.
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steverogan
Stunning! A true treasure.. I went to the Kroller Museum outside of Amsterdam
In Dutch terms it's almost at the other side of the country...You might wanna try the Van Gogh Museum...Quote
steverogan
to see VG paintings. A great experience; to see so many of his works in one place.
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Mathijs
Quite funny actually. It was considered 'fake' for the last 100 years as just about any and all expert considered it 'too ugly' and 'too badly made' to be a Van Gogh. Now it turns out the be real, and all I read is that it is most frigging amazing important super duper fantastic incredible worth-at-least 2 trilion billion dollars work.
Let's be fair: it's ugly, Van Gogh wrote it is a failure, all colours have dissapeared over time, it is crap. It just shows how the art world is just a bunch of crap.
Mathijs
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Mathijs
Quite funny actually. It was considered 'fake' for the last 100 years as just about any and all expert considered it 'too ugly' and 'too badly made' to be a Van Gogh. Now it turns out the be real, and all I read is that it is most frigging amazing important super duper fantastic incredible worth-at-least 2 trilion billion dollars work.
Let's be fair: it's ugly, Van Gogh wrote it is a failure, all colours have dissapeared over time, it is crap. It just shows how the art world is just a bunch of crap.
Mathijs
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24FPS
It's practically impossible to judge the impact of a Van Gogh painting unless you're standing in front of it. I have seen all the Van Goghs in Amsterdam, and at the Kroller, and in Paris, Rotterdam, and at various museums across the U.S. I even managed, in a traveling exhibition, to see one from Russia I thought I'd never see. Van Gogh is a prisoner walking in a courtyard with other prisoners in a circle, with Van Gogh being the prisoner looking back at the viewer.
. At the Musee d'orsay in Paris their impressionist wing has Renoirs, etc, and some of them are very ho hum in person. But Van Gogh's paintings always stand out, hard to be reproduced in poster form because of his unique, deep brush strokes.
Van Gogh's paintings blow away most of his contemporaries when they're gathered together
agree completely with your post especially this part because you said 'most' of his contemporaries...
curious as to which artists contemporary with Van Gogh you regard as not ones to be blown away by his work..?
for me it would be Gauguin, possibly Degas as well
I'm shocked it took them so long to identify this painting. Did they think someone was copying Van Gogh? It's obviously his style. And no, it's not an outtake. Maybe a B side. As a B side it's much better than One More Shot.
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Rockman
This "new" Van Gogh painting is getting a deluxe treatment release-wise in November, just in time for the Christmas Market.
The limited deluxe edtion features a fine art print, a 96-page hardcover book with previously unseen photos of Van Gogh's paintings, a 1200 word essay by Greil Marcus, a bonus replica poster for an van Gogh exhibition in Paris 1976, four glossy postcards and a replica Van Gogh paintbrush.
Standard editions will feature the fine art print and the postcards only.
For a limited time only, a high resolution jpg can by downloaded via itunes.
CLASSIC..... and spot on Papo
You got that right, I remember a trio of renowned art critics on the TV in the eighties declaring an abstract picture "Wonderous".......it turned out it had been done by an elephant.......................Quote
Mathijs
Quite funny actually. It was considered 'fake' for the last 100 years as just about any and all expert considered it 'too ugly' and 'too badly made' to be a Van Gogh. Now it turns out the be real, and all I read is that it is most frigging amazing important super duper fantastic incredible worth-at-least 2 trilion billion dollars work.
Let's be fair: it's ugly, Van Gogh wrote it is a failure, all colours have dissapeared over time, it is crap. It just shows how the art world is just a bunch of crap.
Mathijs
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kleermaker
It's not a masterpiece in any way.
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kleermaker
It's not a masterpiece in any way.
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paulm
Great thread. I read about this a few days ago. Among Impressionists or anyone else, Van Gogh transcends art. Have you read that his death was not suicide, but that he was murdered by some punky rich kids on holiday? And on his death bed, VG made a comment to the effect of, "They didn't do it." As in, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Sound familiar? Both figures dying essentially in rags, yet posthumously idolized and generating hundreds of millions of dollars in contrast to their destitute lives. VG was a special soul for sure.
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Greg
About the Kröller Muller Museum, Captain Beefheart, a Van Gogh aficionado, is quoted to have said after leaving the museum: 'The real sun, what a dissapointment...'
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paulm
Great thread. I read about this a few days ago. Among Impressionists or anyone else, Van Gogh transcends art. Have you read that his death was not suicide, but that he was murdered by some punky rich kids on holiday? And on his death bed, VG made a comment to the effect of, "They didn't do it." As in, "Forgive them, for they know not what they do."
Sound familiar? Both figures dying essentially in rags, yet posthumously idolized and generating hundreds of millions of dollars in contrast to their destitute lives. VG was a special soul for sure.
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Greg
About the Kröller Muller Museum, Captain Beefheart, a Van Gogh aficionado, is quoted to have said after leaving the museum: 'The real sun, what a dissapointment...'
It is The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.
I do have a tape of this interview and its funny to hear the Captain pronouncing Van Gogh! I think the Captain used Dutch oil paint.
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Greg
About the Kröller Muller Museum, Captain Beefheart, a Van Gogh aficionado, is quoted to have said after leaving the museum: 'The real sun, what a dissapointment...'
It is The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.
I do have a tape of this interview and its funny to hear the Captain pronouncing
Van Gogh! I think the Captain used Dutch oil paint.
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Greg
About the Kröller Muller Museum, Captain Beefheart, a Van Gogh aficionado, is quoted to have said after leaving the museum: 'The real sun, what a dissapointment...'
It is The Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam.
I do have a tape of this interview and its funny to hear the Captain pronouncing Van Gogh! I think the Captain used Dutch oil paint.
Ah, my bad. "Used dutch oil paint" - to paint or to pronounce van Gogh.. ;-)
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Mathijs
Didn't Beefheart claim he was a descendent from Dutch artists through his father?
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Mathijs
Didn't Beefheart claim he was a descendent from Dutch artists through his father?
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