Here’s a nifty “interactive” animation of Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night, with the individual patchy lines of paint swirling and slithering around, no drugs needed. Don’t you want to touch it? Yes, you do. Read more »
Pulitzer Prize-wining duo Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith want to “upend art history” and prick holes in the great suicide tale of Vincent Van Gogh. They claim that Vinny couldn’t have possible shot himself with a revolver in the chest in a field and then shlepped to die at an inn more than a mile away while fatally bleeding… Read more »
A small Cali town’s relentlessly humiliated surfer statue was meticulously “vandalized” yesterday when Snyder decked out the “Cardiff Kook” into Vincent Van Gogh for Vinny’s b-day, severed ear and absinthe and everything. He’s fully costumed, bloody-bandaged and sporting an easel “welded to fit on the nose of the board” with “a painting of the view from the sculpture in a post impressionism style” surrounded by 6 paper-mâché crows. Best statue trolling yet?
The Sunflowers of Vincent Van Gogh are literally wilting. His cornea-searing yellows are turning dull brown as the chromium in the Vincent-beloved chrome yellow pigment undergoes reverse oxidation with UV light. This seems to only happen to the chrome yellows brightened with barium sulphate white. ‘Cause science. That’s what you get for trying harder. French scientists suggest that Van Gogh’s sunniest paintings should be kept in the darkest corners of museums as a precaution. A little part of Vincent might have enjoyed this.
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- Wheat Field With Rising Sun
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- Snow Covered Field
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- Prisoners Exercising
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- Starry Night Over the Rhone
So, Vincent Van Gogh was missing a second ear and a third dimension? The nifty nerds at Artcyclopedia thought so. They manipulated his depth of field for that tilt-focus effect that makes real people look like tiny toys and tiny toys look like real people. It’s as close as you’re going to get to running through the Vincent-scapes. Wheee!
The LA Times’ profile of an on-going Van Gogh exhibit at the Royal Academy of Art in London has this point to emphasize: Van Gogh was not a “crazy genius” and they’ve got his personal letters to prove it. He was well-read and dandy, you see, despite walking off a pier while carrying on a conversation (strike 1), gorging on his paints (strike 2), or coming down for supper with a bleeding-out gut shot (that was strike 3). So feel free to shake off your “artistic” friend’s red flag as bit of a nervous rough patch… don’t stress. What they do might even end up on a coffee mug someday. |LAT|
Though Vincent Van Gogh is universally recognized as the tortured and crazy painter who sliced off his own ear, he may also be a liar. A new study suggests the disturbed Dutch artist made up the story to protect Paul Gauguin, a fellow painter and object of his affection, who cut it off with a sword during a quarrel between the two. Read more »
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