Now it is back in London again, in the current exhibition. When Van Gogh ran out of canvas he would sometimes use a fabric known in French as torchon, which is widely employed for tea towels.
He really did gogh the extra mile. “The Starry Night,” the 1889 hallmark artwork by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh, is remarkably congruent to the astronomic principles of our sky, atmospheric ...
"This comet trail of splendour is now mapped by 'Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers', a scintillating exhibition at London's National Gallery." To celebrate the gallery's bicentenary, and the centenary of ...
When it comes to curating a Van Gogh exhibition, every loan represents a challenge. Altogether the gallery is showing 47 paintings and 14 drawings, making it one of the largest shows on the artist ...
The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the artist’s tumultuous state of mind when he painted the work in 1889.
Scientists recently analyzed Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night to see how well its famous swirls matched up with known atmospheric physics. After analysis, they found that not only did the shapes ...