Word: gogh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...town of Zaandam, 300 parishioners refused to contribute to the building fund. In Paris, a city more used to the out-rageous in art, Appel decorated a restaurant in the UNESCO building. And in Britain, Sir Herbert Read solemnly declared that Appel has found the world "Van Gogh was seeking but did not find the world of abstract expressionism...
...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...