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When van Gogh Fled South, This Family Gave Him Purpose
An exhibition in Boston celebrates the little known Roulins of Arles, a family that tempered the artist’s depressions and sat ...
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Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings (and where to see them in the world!)
Japan Vincent van Gogh painted not one but three canvasses of Sunflowers in early 1889, each with slight variations in light, background colours and the shapes of the flowers, which always seem to ...
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Van Gogh’s Final Years Come to Life in ‘The Roulin Family Portraits’
Sometimes the flesh of the person reflects the color of the background, as in Camille Roulin (1888). Vincent van Gogh, Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle (La Berceuse), 1889 ...
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The deep friendship behind Van Gogh’s 26 portraits of one family
They all depict her seated in a wooden chair against a patterned floral background ... of the letters were sent to Van Gogh’s family after Joseph visited Vincent in the hospital after his ...
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Turbulent skies of Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ align with a scientific theory, study finds
The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night ... mixes around with some background swirls and whirls in a fashion predicted by turbulence theory ...
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At the MFA, Van Gogh's portraits reveal his capacity for friendship
Vincent van Gogh's "Postman Joseph Roulin" (center ... including the one with the dazzling quasi-turquoise background from Harvard’s Fogg Museum (given more breathing room here than it gets ...