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Van Gogh's All-Over Fields

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http://www.theartblog.org/2012/02/van-gogh-up-close-at-the-philadelphia-museum-of-art/

Feb 21

Vincent Van Gogh, Ears of Wheat, 64.5 x 48.5 cm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

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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The Artblog

Van Gogh's Close Up

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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."

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Picture This

Gauguin's Freundschafts- bild

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http://www.imamuseum.org/blog/2012/01/24/a-modern-freundschaftsbild/

Leslie Anderson blogs about Paul Gauguin's Still Life with Profile of Laval, known as a Freundschaftsbild, a picture exchanged between artists to "demonstrate friendship and, often, artistic allegiance."

Anderson cites "evidence that van Gogh proposed a portrait exchange to foster the Gemeinschaft (sense of community) between himself and fellow artists Gauguin, Laval, and Émile Bernard... These portraits, which are rendered in new artistic idioms, announce the painters’ collective denial of naturalism and simultaneous entrée into the international Symbolist movement."

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Indianapolis Museum of Art