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http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jul/13/symbolism-van-gogh-kandinsky-in-pictures
Photo blog of paintings from the exhibition Van Gogh to Kandinsky, Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-1910 at the National Galleries of Scotland on view through October 14, 2012.
The exhibition, which includes paintings by lesser known painters such as Jens Ferdinand Willumsen and Akseli Gallen-Kallela is "dedicated to Symbolist landscape painting... a more imaginative, emotional response to the world around them – a route which took [artists] from Naturalism to the edges of Abstraction. The exhibition will present a wide range of poetic and suggestive paintings of nature from about 1880-1910."
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http://www.theartblog.org/2012/02/van-gogh-up-close-at-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art/
Andrea Kirsh reviews the exhibition Van Gogh Up Close at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on view through May 6, 2012.
Kirsch writes that a few of the paintings "rather startlingly, have no discernible focal point. They are the sort of all-over painting we associate with Abstract Expressionism; Pollock avant la lettre... The subjects of the all-over paintings exist in an undifferentiated space."
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http://bigthink.com/ideas/42263
Bob Duggan previews the exhibition Van Gogh: Up Close at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, on view through May 6, 2012.
Duggan writes that "The mad, sad, and dangerous to know Vincent seen through the telephoto lens of legend gives way here to a clear-eyed view of an intensely focused artist who, despite personal difficulties, achieved greatness in art and communed intimately with nature in a way not only artistically revolutionary, but also therapeutic for himself and others."
