Word: gogh
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This extra-curricular devotion to his uncle and his art stems from Mr. Van Gogh's firm belief in the permanence of Vincent's contribution to art. During an interview yesterday, it became clear that he like to talk about the purely Dutch elements which his uncle depicted while in southern France. The drawbridge, boats on the beach and the flat, plain-like terrain of Vincent's mature work are all typically Dutch, not French, themes. The recurrent motif, found in the late works, of mountains rising in the distance beyond the plains reflects the lowlander's fondness for height...
...Gogh is above all interested in the lessons that his uncle's turbulent and eventually resolved quest for identity can offer us. Vincent's constant search for the right job in his early days, he feels, provides a model of determination to succeed at self-discovery. In Vincent's eventual turn to art, he remarks that his uncle suddenly found a way of applying all that he had learned to a process of giving, not taking. This use of knowledge he considers an essential step in gaining maturity...
...Gogh has recently begun work on the question of the genesis of creativity in an attempt to arrive at conclusions of a more general nature from the vast number of documents and artworks of his uncle that he has at his disposal. But his main interest in his uncle probably remains that of organizing exhibitions of the best examples in his family's collection for museums all over the world...
...Gogh, whose resemblance to his uncle is extraordinary--sans white hair, he could double as the Vincent of the Parisian period--also has the warmth and kindness that his father possessed to so great an extent. He is a direct link to major figures in a vital period of the history...
Vincent Van Gogh, the nephew of the French post-Impressionist artist, will speak at 4 p.m. today in the Fogg Museum Small Lecture Room. A consultant engineer as well as an expert on the elder Van Gogh's art, Van Gogh will discuss how creativity arises, with specific reference to the career of his uncle...