Vincents Portraits
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Despite his posthumous fame as a painter of flowers, still-lifes,
gardens, landscapes and city scenes, during his lifetime Vincent
van Gogh believed that his portraits constituted his most important
works. Although as an artist he was ‘touched by so many different
things’, he was nevertheless committed to the art of portraiture –
a quality that distinguished him from his contemporaries. Van Gogh
was passionate in his avoidance of bland, photographic
resemblances, in the hope of capturing the essential character of
his models by means of expressive colour and brushwork. Showcasing
a dramatic set of portraits created during Van Gogh’s ten-year
career, this book reflects the strong visual impact with which the
artist captured the diversity of contemporary life. In his many
portraits, we can discern the artist’s desire to record
expressively a number of themes, from the plight of the
agricultural workers in his native Brabant and the destitution of
prostitutes and their children in urban Europe, to the lives of his
cosmopolitan acquaintances in Paris, including café owners and art
dealers. It was here that he began his remarkable sequence of
self-portraits. With reference to Van Gogh’s extensive
correspondence, Skea elaborates how the artist perceived his chosen
subjects as would a writer, and how he felt that his portraits
should somehow evoke what he considered to be the spiritual
underpinning of human existenceTable of ContentsIntroduction: ‘And
painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep
inthe soul of the painter…’ • 1. The Netherlands • 2. Paris • 3.
Arles • 4. Saint-Rémy-deProvence• 5. Auvers-sur-Oise • Sources of
Quotations, Further Reading
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Ralph Skea ,
Thames & Hudson
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Ralph Skea,
Thames & Hudson
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Slovart
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Slovart
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