Without the ear of Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin left

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Biography of Van Gogh, it seems, needs to be adjusted - the German critics found someone had cut off the ear of Vincent Van Gogh.
Longer than a century believed that the artist himself cut off his lobe in a fit of madness. But after ten years of investigation, scientists found that the operation had his closest friend, the artist Paul Gauguin.
Two creative personalities have squabbled in the town of Arles 23rd December 1888. As a result, an excellent swordsman wounded Gauguin, Van Gogh's ear. Gun crime - rapier - he drowned in the river, pass on "Vesti". A legend arose because Van Gogh is believed to scientists, did not testify against his friend.
"Vesti.Ru"

[Yaya]

SergeiSK, probably, interviewed witnesses ..

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According to sociologists, the world's most famous three artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Leonardo's "responsible" for the art of old masters, Van Gogh - for the Impressionists and Post-XIX century, and Picasso - for the abstract and modernist XX century.

Moreover, if Leonardo appears in the eyes of the public are not so much a painter as a universal genius, and Picasso - fashionable "secular lion and a public figure - a champion of the world, Van Gogh stands for is an artist.

He is considered a lone madman genius and a martyr, not thinking about fame and money. However, this image, which has become accustomed to, no more than a myth, which was used to "roll out" Van Gogh and profitably sell his paintings.....

Then read here: http://www.vokrugsveta.ru/vs/article/3966/

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The Legend of Van Goga

This is part of a great book, interesting. I remember that night read In inete not find, unfortunately. "Browse" to OZON possible.

[Veronic]

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According to sociologists, the world's most famous three artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso.

Leonardo's "responsible" for the art of old masters, Van Gogh - for the Impressionists and Post-XIX century, and Picasso - for the abstract and modernist XX century.

Moreover, if Leonardo appears in the eyes of the public are not so much a painter as a universal genius, and Picasso - fashionable "secular lion and a public figure - a champion of the world, Van Gogh stands for is an artist.

He is considered a lone madman genius and a martyr, not thinking about fame and money. However, this image, which has become accustomed to, no more than a myth, which was used to "roll out" Van Gogh and profitably sell his paintings.....

Then read here: http://www.vokrugsveta.ru/vs/article/3966/

Yes, of course, crazy people in painting are still more attractive in the eyes of art lovers than workaholic. Although Van Gogh said of his work
"The easiest way to refute this idea of Van Goga words of the artist himself:" Great is created not only by an impulsive act, but also the complicity of many things that were given to a single whole ... In art, as with everything else: the great is not something accidental, but must be created by the persistent strong-willed tension.

Thank you for the article !!!!!

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epochal exhibition of paintings and letters of Van Gogh was opened in London

23.01.2010 20:20

First 40 years in the UK large-scale exhibition of the famous Dutch post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh was opened on Saturday in the walls of the London Royal Academy of Arts (Royal Academy of Arts).

Exhibition entitled "The real Van Gogh: the artist and his letters, gathered in the halls of the Academy on Piccadilly Street, about 65 paintings, 30 drawings and 40 personal letters wizard. Most of the exhibits was provided to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, but the exhibition displays the artist's works stored in private and museum collections around the world - the United States, Switzerland, Britain and other countries.

"We tried to show the history of the life and work of Van Gogh by a combination of his pictures and letters to his younger brother Theo, who supported the artist financially and emotionally throughout life," - told reporters at a media preview of the Royal Academy curator Ann Dumas.

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According to her, the letters of Van Gogh rarely exhibited because of their fragility and sensitivity to light. "We've chosen to display the letters, which contained the outline of the paintings, because the texts themselves mainly written in French and Dutch and will not understand much of English-speaking audience," - said Dumas.
The authors of the exhibition managed to gather together the various reflections of the same idea - a letter with a sketch and reflections on the film, full-size sketch and a finished version of the pictorial. This evolution, for example, can be seen on the painting "View of Arles with irises in the foreground" (1888).
And the exhibition opens a letter with a sketch of London's Westminster Bridge, which is intended to remind visitors of the two periods of the life of a young Van Gogh in Britain in 1870. But then he tried to make a career of art dealer and interested in matters of religion, and painting was carried away, only about 1880 and his career as an artist lasted only about ten years until the tragic death in 1890.
Walking through the halls of Academia, visitors follow the routes of wandering life of Van Gogh - Belgium Antwerp, where he created a series of somber portraits of peasants; Paris, where he lived in the apartment of his brother Theo in Montmartre, met with his contemporaries, the Impressionists, picked up and developed their style, joined the bright colors, moving to Arles in Provence in southern France, where he was overtaken by mental illness, as well as the last months of his life in a hospital in Saint-Rémy, where he created several works with a distorted perspective and sinuous outlines of objects, and in the town of Auvers - sur-Oise near Paris, where the summer of 1890 Van Gogh shot himself in the chest and died shortly thereafter from the wounds.
Audience will learn about the passion of Van Gogh's Japanese color prints and his passion for literature. "Contrary to popular misconception, Van Gogh was a cultured, knowledgeable, and educated man, with a real passion for books", - said Dumas.
Under executed in yellow tones painting "Parisian Novels (1887) featuring books on the table in the window of the publication of the collected real-time, who read the artist - from novels naturalists of the French school of Zola and Maupassant to" Christmas Song "by Charles Dickens and" Uncle Tom's Cabin "Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Passion of the Japanese subjects, of course, has some impact on the interest of Van Gogh to create a series of spring landscapes with blossoming gardens. Gathered from museums and private collections from around the world, they settled on one of the walls of the gallery.
Here are two pictures that van Gogh bequeathed to stand together, but that the will of fate found themselves on opposite sides of the Atlantic - in Amsterdam and in the American Indianapolis. Representing the fields of wheat and the surrounding hills, the two paintings are made in complementary colors - yellow and blue-violet.
Complementarity complementary colors was one of the favorite style of the artist, recalled the exhibition's curator. In the halls of the Academy before his still-lifes, made it in this manner: red poppies on a blue background or a bouquet of pink roses on a green background. However, due to the use of unstable pigment over time pink roses fade and become almost white.
Virtually every work in the exhibition hides behind a one or another story that is revealed in the signatures and placed in the windows next to the letters of Van Gogh.
Facsimile copies of all letters and their translations into English, as well as additional information on the life and works of Van Gogh are also presented in a special library with twelve computer terminals at the end of the exhibition.
Find their own interesting reading the works of the great painter at the Royal Academy of Arts, viewers will before April 18 this year.

http://ru.trend.az/regions/world/europe/1624593.html

[Posav]

Yes ... After the death of any one gallery did not agree to make a posthumous exhibition of the blessed and had to make this exhibition a brother in his apartment. A relative of one of Van Gogh's plugged a hole in the henhouse (here, especially crying, when I remember). And lucky is the one art dealer that this work drew from the chicken coop.

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Well people!
There is a song about Van Gogh's ear ..
something like: "how much would cost счас ear of Van Gogh's Ear .. Van Gogh ...."

Why Van Gogh leshilsya ear? Another version:

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in the Netherlands found a picture of an unknown Van Gogh

In the museum of the city of Zwolle (Zwolle) exhibited painting by Vincent Van Gogh, was until recently considered the work of an unknown master. It is reported by NRC Handelsblad.
According to museum director Ralph Keuning (Ralph Keuning), affiliation painting "Le Blute-fin Mill" (Mill Le Blyut-fin) brush of the great Post-Impressionists was confirmed by experts of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. As the newspaper notes, the factors indicating the authorship of the work of experts, among others, attributed the size and structure of the canvas, the type of paints, certain features of the painting techniques, as well as the stamp of a Paris shop of art supplies on the back of the painting.

The picture, identified as the work of Van Gogh, was bought by the founder of the museum in Zwolle Hannema Dirk (Dirk Hannema) in 1975 at a price equivalent to 1 thousand euros. Despite the fact that Hannema was confident of authorship of work, the experts were skeptical of his claims. Previously, he was involved in the purchase of several paintings of Johannes Vermeer's supposedly for the Museum of Rotterdam, later proved fakes.

As the news agency Reuters, the owner before his death in 1986, the picture was stored in his personal collection, and then turned the museum's storerooms. The experts agreed to conduct examination of paintings only after repeated requests from the Museum of Zwolle.

The last time an unknown Van Gogh painting found in 1995. In the catalog of the artist, created in 1970, since its first publication were added only five paintings.

http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/02/25/leblutefin/

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