Letters of Van Gogh

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Monument literature mentioned only that the published collection of letters by Vincent van Gogh Museum of Amsterdam's director of artist Axel Ruger. Ruger quoted by AFP. According to Hans Lyuytena, a member of the museum, Van Gogh wrote to the stylistically accurate and exciting. Lyuyten also believes that the publication of letters of the artist has shaken the myth of the "mad genius, a beggar and a misfit."
Six volumes of correspondence of Van Gogh includes 902 letters written between 1872 and 1890. 893 of them belong to the artist, the rest - his correspondents. Publication of letters took 15 years. By publication timed exhibition in Amsterdam's museum of the artist, which shows the most interesting letters and related paintings of the artist, including "The Potato Eaters" and "The Sower at Sunset".
Van Gogh, judging from the correspondence, a lot of thinking about art, from his letters we can see that he had carefully weighed every brush stroke. "He was not a madman, throwing paint on canvas" - quoted by The Daily Telegraph, Leo Jansen, organizer of the exhibition in Amsterdam's museum.
(Lenta.ru)