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Face to Face. The Portraits

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Van Gogh, Face to Face. The Portraits

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Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
Author: Joseph J. Rishel
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2000-04
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Label: Thames & Hudson
Number Of Pages: 272

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Just one month before his suicide in 1890 Vincent van Gogh wrote to his sister, "What impassions me most--much, much more than all of the rest of my metier--is the portrait, the modern portrait." During his short, intense career he revolutionized portrait painting, decisively influencing its course in the twentieth century. Published to accompany a major touring exhibition, Van Gogh Face to Face brings together for the first time the great portraits from all periods of the painter's life, augmented by reproductions of many of his most important other paintings. The result is an unprecedented and wonderfully revealing study of van Gogh's development as an artist, making it possible to see his evolving approach to the genre as he pushed back the boundaries of portraiture, culminating in the masterworks of his final years. Six original essays by leading art historians discuss the key aspects of van Gogh's portraits at different stages of his career. George Keyes begins by setting the paintings in the context of Dutch art, demonstrating the formative influence of masters such as Rembrandt and Frans Hals. Lauren Soth discusses the stark but carefully finished drawings made by van Gogh during his early years in The Hague. George Shackelford examines the pictures made during van Gogh's stay in Paris, his first works to show the influence of the Impressionists and of contemporaries such as Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec. In Arles in the south of France, van Gogh entered a great period of feverish productivity, and his portraits--of peasants, villagers, and himself--are among his most powerful pictures. Roland Dorn examines the major works, in particular the revolutionary sequence of portraits of the Roulin family in which van Gogh's experimentation with color is brought to fruition. After his breakdown, van Gogh moved first to an asylum in St. Rmy and then to Auvers, a small village north of Paris. Judy Sund discusses the portraits van Gogh painted as he struggled to keep his sanity, including the famous pictures of Dr. Gachet and the final haunting self-portraits. Joseph Rishel concludes by examining the impact of van Gogh's work on his contemporaries and his pervasive influence on later artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Munch, and Francis Bacon. Interspersed with the essays is a detailed, four-part chronology of the painter's life, beautifully illustrated with both his portraits and other important paintings.
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Portraiture: Vincent van Gogh's great love

2000-05-06
From 2000-2001 this exhibition, devoted specifically to Van Gogh's portraits and self-portraits, will travel to Detroit, Boston and Philadelphia. This book is well written and provides graphics of superb quality. My only misgiving comes from the fact that seven different writers contributed to the commentary of the book which makes the flow of the text somewhat disjointed. While very well researched, other exhibition catalogues (those by Ronald Pickvance, for example) take a work-by work, single author approach and, as a result, the commentary is more clear and concise. Still, it's a minor criticism of an excellent book.

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