Real art.
Hoax art.
Posted on 05/05/2009 5:37:22 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
Here is a great online collection of Van Gogh paintings: http://www.vggallery.com/painting/main_az.htm
I didn’t realize he had done so many paintings. Many of them are quite striking. The painting you posted is titled Still Life: Pink Roses in a Vase. It is in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Agree, that is a good site showcasing Van Gogh’s works. Indeed, he was a prolific painter. The National Art Gallery in D.C. has several Van Gogh pieces on permanent exhibit.
Yup. I'm surprised by the reaction here. Leftist politics is just one manifestation of a much wider cultural war.
The downward spiral of modern art began with Impressionism, a stupid theory of art.
“Don't talk to me about those idiots, cluttering the fields with their easels. Had I the authority of a tyrant, I'd order the police to shoot them all down.”This was Edgar Degas, speaking less about the then-contemporary rage for landscape painting than about the ideals of the Impressionists. He was, to understate the case, unimpressed with, for example, Claude Monet’s blathering about "sincerity" and "spontaneity.” To Degas is attributed: “A picture is something that requires as much knavery, trickery, and deceit as the perpetration of a crime.”
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.”
A triumph of amateurish banality.
Lorena Bobbit.
Yeah, and Hemingway said Chekhov
was a hack.
I judge for myself and Van Gogh was brilliant.
ANd I love impressionists.
THanks,,I wish the pics could be enlarged to fit the computer screen.
No need to be so harsh in your self-description.
YOu are talking of Gauguin, right? He had syphilis.
I have not read that of Van Gogh.
Too much Digoxin causes death by cardiac arhythmia. And I have not heard of Digoxin as a treatment for seizures.
If a high school kid painted that, would you notice? Would anyone?
Real art.
Hoax art.
Yes, when I saw his work first hand as opposed to a drab photograph. I recall the first time I viewed the painting, and many more of Van Gogh's works. His talent with color and light was extraordinary.
The Pieta is beautiful too. I've seen it a few times, but only once during Jubilee.
Actually it was digitalis the active ingredient in Digoxin. It was used in Van Gogh's time for epilepsy. It may not have been effective but it was used. Yes Van Gogh did have syphilis. http://www.doctorsreview.com/node/56 "A couple of years later Vincent moved to Antwerp in Belgium, where big city life lifted his spirits somewhat, but also introduced him to a new problem: absinthe. Van Gogh drank heavily during this time, smoked like a fiend and led a generally debauched lifestyle, enjoying the company of prostitutes and badly neglecting his health. Though in Antwerp he received inspiration and further training, his time in the city also left him with syphilis"
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