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The deep friendship behind Van Gogh’s portraits
A current exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts puts Vincent Van Gogh’s portraits of the Roulin family into important context. The French family made the Dutchman feel like he belonged, and their ...
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New York Botanical Garden brings Vincent van Gogh's paintings to life
Vincent van Gogh's classic paintings are being brought to life at the New York Botanical Garden. CBS News New York's Erica Lunsford takes us inside the new exhibit, now open to the public.
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50 Fascinating Children's Books About Famous Artists
When kids learn about famous artists in picture books and narrative nonfiction stories, it helps readers remember the famous ...
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At the MFA, Van Gogh's portraits reveal his capacity for friendship
An installation view of the "Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) If the new show at the Museum of Fine Arts ...
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Van Gogh’s Final Years Come to Life in ‘The Roulin Family Portraits’
Vincent van Gogh, Enclosed Field with Ploughman, 1889; Oil on canvas. Bequest of William A. Coolidge, Photograph © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston In 1889, at St. Rémy ...
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Van Gogh’s loneliness
On A Fire in His Soul: Van Gogh, Paris, and the Making of an Artist, by Miles J. Unger. “You once said to me that I would always be isolated,” wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo in 1884. It ...
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Van Gogh’s Radiant Portraits of a Postman’s Family Get a Rare Reunion
The works are now the subject of a first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. Vincent van Gogh, Portrait of Joseph Roulin (1889), detail. Collection of the Museum of Modern ...
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‘Van Gogh: The Roulin Family Portraits’ Review: The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Humanizes A Legend
Vincent van Gogh’s name is synonymous with the tortured artist trope, and it’s hard for museums displaying the famed artist’s work to shake this image. Yet, the Museum of Fine Art ...
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Vincent van Gogh painting worth $15 million bought at Minnesota garage sale for $50 ruled ‘not authentic’
An oil painting on canvas believed to have been created by artist Vincent van Gogh, which was purchased at a garage sale for $50 and later valued at $15 million, may be a fake, according to a new ...
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20 years after Van Gogh: a murder that was not a tragic accident
Van Gogh’s assassination was followed a year later (2005) by the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy. In September of that year, the paper published 12 illustrations under “The Face of ...
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Van Gogh's 'Starry Night' obeys a scientific law that was invented 52 years later. It reveals the painter's keen observations of nature.
Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" seems to follow a mathematical theory describing fluids in nature. He couldn't have understood the equations, which came about decades after his death. Researchers ...