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“... gets savaged and shredded in the course of all that follows. Repeatedly, the words and deeds of Vincent vanGogh stab at the framework beneath. With a peculiar and terrible force, his letters pit the reader against what’s hard in art and what’s cold in money, lashing out in search of something that, for want of a ...”

“... Corot’). But it also goes beyond that – beyond admiration, beyond style, homage, imitation. Van Gogh, even as he was violently wrenching himself towards a form of painting which still startles us today, was filling his letters and his mind with thoughts of Corot (he also greatly valued Chardin). It was a tribute by the living artist to his ...”

“... strong Ray. He nodded. What makes you so strong. He thought about it. Lust he said. You mean like Vincent VanGogh. Lust for life. No he said. Like a bee. Pollen she said. He laughed. Pollen keeps callin old Ray. They rolled along. Dawn was pushing the night sky up like a Venetian blind and blue ran straight into the ...”

“... There are​ self-trained artists; then there are self-willed ones. Edward Burne-Jones, like Vincent VanGogh, was one of the latter. That’s to say, he decided, in 1855, to be an artist – he was studying for a theology degree at Oxford at the time – without knowing whether he was capable of being one, perhaps even without considering absence of talent a potential obstacle ...”

“... rhyme and, while they were at it, conventional morality … They studied the lives of artists like Vincent vanGogh and Gauguin for guidance and did their best to imitate them.’ They were, then, ripe for an encounter with the famous Beat poets of America. Ginsberg had the pleasure of introducing them to Williams even ...”

“... Miners in the Snow​ (1880) was Vincent vanGogh’s first pictorial declaration of intent. Unable to hold down work in the family picture trade or as a preacher, he was persuaded by his brother Theo to turn his energies to drawing, and after some copying exercises he came up with this sheet ...”

“... He haunts the museum, takes refuge in the book he has brought with him from Munich, The Letters of Vincent VanGogh. In his dedication to the first volume of New Poems, he writes of ‘what being completely alone, being unobserved, unseen, invisible means to me. For three days in Naples I went about with it as with a ...”

“... Céret’ (1921-22) Soutine, ‘Portrait of a Woman’ (1929) Soutine, ‘Hanging Turkey’ (1925) Van Gogh, ‘Tarascon Stagecoach’ (1888)PreviousNext On a tabletop shared by grapes, apples and a wine bottle, a shapely carafe gives up the ghost in a shudder of halations. The grapes likewise dematerialise, floating free of the sheet like the ‘grin ...”

“... achievements is not difficult since the greatest of these murals are in Parisian churches.Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, designed by Jacques Ignace Hittorff, is a five-minute walk from the Gare du Nord (also by Hittorff). It was consecrated in 1844 and, because Hittorff was an authority on the use of colour in ancient temples, was intended to have a polychrome ...”

“... reasons here to exhibit Renoir canvases on the one hand, Redon pastels on the other.Gauguin and Van Gogh have roles to play too, but Riopelle and his fellow curator Patrick Noon also chase some distractingly tenuous connections. Courbet, Monet and Signac don’t sit well with an artistic forebear who kept issues of observable fact so low on his ...”

“... for churches and government buildings) should be considered as similar to Cézanne and Van Gogh. In any case, one wonders against what orthodoxy it is that Julian Schnabel is battling. According to Kramer, it is a modernist orthodoxy – doctrinaire minimalism. Schnabel ‘violates’, apparently, ‘the integrity of the surface’. This seems ...”

“... had been dentists’, Allen produces a hilarious pastiche of the American bio-pics of Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Gauguin. Seurat is a hygienist who cleans his patients’ teeth one at a time, in order to build up ‘a full fresh mouth’. Toulouse-Lautrec is too proud to work on a stool and so, fumbling away, manages to ‘cap Mrs ...”

“... pressed on him hardly at all. In his youth he had the courage of his unconcern: Nobly Cape Saint Vincent to the north-west died away; Sunset ran, one glorious blood-red, reeking into Cadiz Bay; Bluish mid the burning water, full in face Trafalgar lay; In the dimmest north-east distance, dawned Gibraltar grand and gray; ‘Here and here did England help ...”