Becoming van Gogh - Rilegato

Standring, Timothy J.; Van Tilborgh, Louis

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 030018686X ISBN 13: 9780300186864

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

The career path of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890), one of the world's most recognizable artists, was anything but typical. Focusing on the early stages of van Gogh's artistic development,Becoming van Gogh illustrates the artist's efforts to master draftsmanship, understand the challenges of materials and techniques, incorporate color theory, and fold myriad influences into his artistic vocabulary. Van Gogh was aware of avant-garde trends including Georges Seurat's divisionism, Paul Signac's and Camille Pissarro's pointillism, Émile Bernard's synthetism, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec's immersion in the bohemian culture of Montmartre.

This handsome book features works by van Gogh alongside works by the artists who influenced him, showing how he incorporated elements of their techniques into a style that became, eventually, uniquely his own. It features essays exploring how van Gogh imbued his early works with energy as he strove to master drawing with graphite, ink, and washes; how he began to understand color with watercolor paintings; and how he tested his skill with oils on canvas. The distinguished contributors to this volume offer insight into van Gogh's temperament, memory, typography, and relationship with his critics, among other topics. Generously illustrated with 262 color images, the book also includes a chronology charting the artist's stylistic development.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Timothy Standring is the Gates Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Denver Art Museum.Louis van Tilborgh is a senior researcher at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 030018686X
• ISBN 13: 9780300186864
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 287