Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam: Highlights of the Collection

Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam: Highlights of the Collection (Amsterdam Museum Guides Book 3)

The perfect Van Gogh Museum guide
A lavishly illustrated guide containing the most important highlights of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam which houses the largest collection of Vincent van Gogh's paintings, drawings, letters and prints in the world. Written in an engaging style, the museum guide describes the masterpieces of the collection.

In November 2014 the Van Gogh museum redesigned the presentation of its permanent collection, putting more emphasis on the artistâ€™s tortured life. You will be able to follow Van Gogh's development by seeing all of his great works, and will also get to know his personal ambitions, his emotions, the myths and his major influence on art until today.

If you enter the Van Gogh museum you will be face to face with half a dozen of painted self-portraits exhibited against a multi-coloured background of larger than life blow-ups of the artistâ€™s self-portrait. In the presentation Van Goghâ€™s paintings have been given ample space, and the walls vary in colour between a greyish green-brown for the early Brabant paintings and drawings, a green-blue for the Paris pictures, a deep and rich blue for his dazzling works from Provence, and various subtle greens and blues for his other works. Because of the fragility of works on paper, a changing selection of some ten drawings is being exhibited.

The most important issues are being discussed such as the ear incident, the suicide and the mental illness, death and recognition, the discolouration of his paintings and the origins of the Van Gogh museum. At the very end of the presentation, on the top floor of the building, is a gallery with works by Van Gogh's followers.

Although the display is basically chronological, the work has been arranged according to certain themes. As a visitor you can follow the on-going search of an extraordinary artist.

In this guide you will be introduced to his masterpieces, and you will discover some of the ideas and ambitions behind his art. For the purpose of clarity, we will stick to a chronological presentation, while discussing works by Van Gogh and by other artists separately.

After briefly discussing the artist's life and work, the book not only focuses on Van Gogh's masterworks such as the Potato Eaters, the Sunflowers, the Irises and his Bedroom at the Yellow House in Arles, but also describes many of his less well-known paintings.

Since Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo collected work by their contemporaries, these are also on display at the Van Gogh Museum. The book contains many pictures by Seurat, Pissarro, Lautrec, Gauguin and Bernard, some predecessors such as Millet and Breton, and artists that followed in his footsteps. This will show you the context, and the impact Van Gogh had on modern art.

If you read this book before you visit the museum, you will be able to fully appreciate and understand the works on display. Highly recommended before visiting the renewed Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

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Country USA
Manufacturer Art Publications
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-01-19
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Art Publications
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-01-19
Format	Kindle eBook

Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam: Highlights of the Collection (Amsterdam Museum Guides Book 3)

The perfect Van Gogh Museum guide

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