Tag: Van Gogh
The St. Petersburg-based artist who nailed his scrotum to the ground at Red Square last year, just pulled a Van Gogh as part of a new political protest in Moscow. Petr Pavlensky climbed the wall of a psychiatric institution on Sunday and proceeded to cut off his earlobe. Pavlensky was taken to a hospital by police and […]
The destiny of Vincent Van Gogh’s missing body part has been unveiled! Karlsruhe’s Center for Art and Media is displaying the closest thing we’ve got to the artist’s ear, grown with genetic material from Van Gogh’s actual relatives. Assertions that this is a perfect replica of Van Gogh’s ear are questionable. The DNA used to create the cells […]
Got a little bit of a Van Gogh crush? Need to flesh out that fantasy? Kirk Douglas and Tim Roth not quite doing it for you? Well, here’s something just for you. Photographer Tadao Cern has recreated one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous self-portraits with still photography and digital retouching. See the transformation in the video […]
