Van Gogh Face to Face: Portraits

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Just one month before his suicide in 1890 Vincent van Gogh wrote to his sister,"What impassions me most--much, much more than all of the rest of my metier--is the portrait, the modern portrait." During his short, intense career he revolutionized portrait painting, decisively influencing its course in the twentieth century. Published to accompany a major touring exhibition, Van Gogh Face to Face brings together for the first time the great portraits from all periods of the painter's life, augmented by ...
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Just one month before his suicide in 1890 Vincent van Gogh wrote to his sister,"What impassions me most--much, much more than all of the rest of my metier--is the portrait, the modern portrait." During his short, intense career he revolutionized portrait painting, decisively influencing its course in the twentieth century. Published to accompany a major touring exhibition, Van Gogh Face to Face brings together for the first time the great portraits from all periods of the painter's life, augmented by reproductions of many of his most important other paintings. The result is an unprecedented and wonderfully revealing study of van Gogh's development as an artist, making it possible to see his evolving approach to the genre as he pushed back the boundaries of portraiture, culminating in the masterworks of his final years. Six original essays by leading art historians discuss the key aspects of van Gogh's portraits at different stages of his career. George Keyes begins by setting the paintings in the context of Dutch art, demonstrating the formative influence of masters such as Rembrandt and Frans Hals. Lauren Soth discusses the stark but carefully finished drawings made by van Gogh during his early years in The Hague. George Shackelford examines the pictures made during van Gogh's stay in Paris, his first works to show the influence of the Impressionists and of contemporaries such as Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec. In Arles in the south of France, van Gogh entered a great period of feverish productivity, and his portraits--of peasants, villagers, and himself--are among his most powerful pictures. Roland Dorn examines the major works, in particular the revolutionary sequence of portraitsof the Roulin family in which van Gogh's experimentation with color is brought to fruition. After his breakdown, van Gogh moved first to an asylum in St. Rémy and then to Auvers, a small village north of Paris. Judy Sund discusses the portraits van Gogh painted as he struggled to keep his sanity, including the famous pictures of Dr. Gachet and the final haunting self-portraits. Joseph Rishel concludes by examining the impact of van Gogh's work on his contemporaries and his pervasive influence on later artists such as Matisse, Picasso, Munch, and Francis Bacon. Interspersed with the essays is a detailed, four-part chronology of the painter's life, beautifully illustrated with both his portraits and other important paintings.
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Though his portraiture has been among the least studied aspects of Vincent van Gogh's oeuvre, the artist himself was quite passionate about capturing the essence of those with whom he came in contact. "What impassions me most," Vincent wrote in 1889, "...is the portrait, the modern portrait." This catalogue to a traveling exhibition, "Van Gogh: Face to Face," gathers the great portraits from across the artist's career.
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A new turn in a well-worn path, this catalog accompanies an exhibit of portraits painted by Van Gogh and currently traveling to the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The text consists of a series of individual essays by leading art historians exploring various factors contributing to this astonishing body of work. These factors include the significant early influence of Dutch painters, particularly Rembrandt and Frans Hals; the teachings of Anton Mauve, leader of the Hague School; and Van Gogh's admiration of Millet and the Barbizon school. The artist's years in Paris, in the south of France, and with Gauguin at the height of his powers and his working methods, relationships, intensity, and illness are all discussed as they relate to the development of his portraiture. Finally, his influence on artists of succeeding generations is highlighted. The essays are accessible to the interested lay reader but deep enough for the scholar, and the more than 200 color illustrations will attract many browsers. Recommended for public, school, and special art book collections.--Ellen Bates, New York Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\
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  • ISBN-13: 9780500092903
  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson
  • Publication date: 4/1/2000
  • Pages: 272
  • Product dimensions: 9.43 (w) x 12.37 (h) x 1.24 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword 11
Introduction 15
The Dutch Roots of Vincent van Gogh 20
Chronology: The Early Years 50
Fantasy and Reality in The Hague Drawings 60
Chronology: Paris 80
Van Gogh in Paris: Between the Past and the Future 86
Chronology: Arles 126
The Arles Period: Symbolic Means, Decorative Ends 134
Chronology: St.-Remy and Auvers 172
Famine to Feast: Portrait Making at St.-Remy and Auvers 182
The Modern Legacy of van Gogh's Portraits 228
Notes 249
References 261
Acknowledgments 264
List of Illustrations 266
Index 270
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