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Proof the Darwinism Does Too Exist: I thought I already knew enough about piss. Clearly, I was wrong.Proof the Darwinism Does Too Exist: I thought I already knew enough about piss.... more
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Saturdays episode of Doctor Who, will be one penned by Richard Curtis (Blackadder, The Vicar of Dibley) in the show the Doctor and Amy will come across Vincent van Gogh.
To help build up to the episode (does Who really need more publicity, it's already awesome) the beeb posts up this article about the writing process Curtis went through to create the episode. At first the pace was too slow and he had to cut down the Docotrs dialogue.
"I remember I was told, when I first handed in my first draft, the doctor talked too much and that I should go back and watch some of the episodes and see that, actually, he was rather efficient in the way that he talked."-BBC who interviewed Curtis at the BFI screening.Saturdays episode of Doctor Who, will be one penned by Richard Curtis (Blackadder, The... more
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Oh, Vincent Van Gogh, you silly, self-mutilating, dead artist! What better way to show your appreciation for the artist and his work than this Dear Van Gogh mug by artist Mike Mak. The mug has a silicone ear-shaped handle that can be twisted, pulled and flexed.
Read more: http://www.whitespace.bz/ws/web/forms/pulse/PulseMainArticle.aspx?id=410Oh, Vincent Van Gogh, you silly, self-mutilating, dead artist! What better way to show... more
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Vincent Van Gogh
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An exhibition of Vincent van Gogh's personal letters and drawings demolishes long-held myths about his madness – and you can even read them on your iPhone
The exhibition, some sections of which will be loaned to London's Royal Academy for a separate show in January, provides as many answers as it can, bringing together over 120 letters, the largest selection ever exhibited, and hundreds of related paintings and drawings. It is subtitled "the artist speaks". But he doesn't just speak; he enthrals. In the letters on show here he is often miserable, sick, hungover, scared, broke and sorry for himself. But he is more often gossipy, thoughtful, clever and hugely entertaining. He is never that wild man of Hollywood caricature, bellowing incoherently and hurling daubs of paint at the canvas.
The exhibitions also bring together letters where separate pages have ended up in different ownership, and unite vivid thumbnail sketches with preparatory drawings and the finished paintings. The originals are fragile, light-sensitive, and after the show is over will go back into their vault, to be shown only by appointment to scholars (only 36 letters will reach London).
But the Van Gogh Museum is also keen that the work should be made available permanently to a wider audience. To mark the exhibition's opening, six volumes have been published simultaneously in Dutch, French and English, transcribing every one of 819 letters the artist wrote – mostly to Theo, his brother, best friend and the man who kept him financially afloat – and 83 written to him. Alongside Van Gogh's own work, every print, painting or drawing he refers to, every artist he meets or mentions, every scrap of a book, poem or bible verse that he quoted (or misquoted), has been traced.
• Vincent van Gogh, the Letters is published in six volumes by Thames and Hudson. Price £325 until 31 December 2009, thereafter £395.An exhibition of Vincent van Gogh's personal letters and drawings demolishes... more
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This is a beautiful animated short video about four art masterpieces (Picasso's Guernica, Escher's Relativity, van Gogh's Room in Arles and Dali's The Persistence of Memory) produced by Marcelo Ricardo Ortiz from the Vancouver Film School.This is a beautiful animated short video about four art masterpieces (Picasso's... more
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I was introduced to the art of Vincent van Gogh at the movies, specifically the incredible performance of Kirk Douglas as Vincent in Vincente Minnelli's film version of "Lust for Life", the novel by Irving Stone.
Vincent's life is well-known not only for the film but also his often poignant letters to his brother Theo. Vincent was Born in Groot-Zundert, Holland. He was the son of a pastor and grew up in a cultured, religious atmosphere.
His decision to become an artist was complicated by two unhappy romances, his lack of self-confidence, and his unsuccessful, short careers as bookstore clerk and art salesman. His career as a 'preacher' in the Borinage, a grim coal mining district in Belgium, ended in his abrupt dismissal for 'being overzealous'.
He remained in Belgium to study art. His works of this period are often crude and somber, a style best exemplified by his 'masterpiece' of the period: 'The Potato Eaters'.
Joining his brother in Paris, Vincent met Pissaro, Monet, Seurat and Gauguin. At first, his brush strokes were short ala the impressionists but lengthened as his own style developed.
He had hoped to establish a school of art in Arles where he was joined by Gauguin. The results were disastrous. The infamous episode in which he is said to have cut off part of his ear may have resulted from either an epileptic fit, a quarrel or both. From that point, Vincent suffered periodic madness.
While under 'treatment' by Dr. Gachet, Vincent shot himself --as he had written --"for the good of all."
Vincent produced his finest work in a period of only three years and sold only one painting in his life. Now --his paintings are priceless and his letters to Theo are preserved as literature. I was introduced to the art of Vincent van Gogh at the movies, specifically the... more
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A new X-ray technique has revealed a previously unknown portrait of a woman by Vincent van Gogh, which was painted over by the artist.
The peasant woman's face was hidden behind the work Patch of Grass, completed by Van Gogh in Paris in 1887.
Scientists Joris Dik and Koen Janssens used high-intensity X-rays from a particle accelerator to scan the painting and reveal the face beneath.
Van Gogh is known to have often reused canvasses to save money.
The identity of the peasant woman in the painting is not known.
The powerful X-ray bombardment caused atoms in the picture's layers of paint to emit "fluorescent" X-rays of their own, which indicated the chemicals they originated from. That enabled a colour map of the hidden picture to be produced.
The portrait fills a square area measuring 17.5cm by 17.5cm (6.8 by 6.8 inches).
Mr Dik, a materials scientist from Delft University, and Mr Janssens, a chemist from the University of Antwerp in Belgium, published their scientific paper online in the journal Analytical Chemistry. A new X-ray technique has revealed a previously unknown portrait of a woman by Vincent... more
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A team of scientists in the Netherlands have pioneered a new method for 'seeing through' paintings to reveal a picture of a woman's face unseen since Vincent Van Gogh painted over it iin 1887. A team of scientists in the Netherlands have pioneered a new method for 'seeing... more
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) - Scientists have made a colored view of an early rejected painting underneath Vincent van Gogh's 'Patch of Grass' painting, using advanced X-ray techniques, a Dutch university said on Wednesday.
Conventional X-ray techniques give a colorless, partial view of the hidden painting and only show vague contours of a person behind 'Patch of Grass', the university said.
By recycling his work Van Gogh painted many layers over the original painting but the scientists managed to scan all the different elements in those layers of the relevant area with X-ray fluorescence.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- A team of European scientists unveiled on Wednesday a new method for extracting images hidden under old masters' paintings, recreating a color portrait of a woman's face unseen since Vincent van Gogh painted over it in 1887. For years, art historians have been using x-rays to probe artworks hidden underneath other paintings, a technique resulting in a fuzzy, black-and-white image.
But Joris Dik, a materials scientist from Delft University, and Koen Janssens, a chemist from the University of Antwerp in Belgium, combined science and art to engineer a new method of visualizing hidden paintings, using high-intensity x-rays and an intimate knowledge of old pigments.
The pair used the new approach on "Patch of Grass," a small oil study of a field that Van Gogh painted in Paris while living with his brother Theo, who supported him.
While not exact in every detail, the image produced is a woman's head that may be the same model Van Gogh painted in a series of portraits leading up to the 1885 masterpiece "The Potato Eaters."
The new method will allow art historians to obtain higher quality and more detailed images underlying old masterpieces. In Van Gogh's case, it could reveal details of works that were painted over. For other works, it could provide new insights into the studies that the artist built a painting on.
Dik and Janssens used high-intensity x-rays from a particle accelerator in Hamburg, Germany to compile a two-dimensional map of the metallic atoms on the painting beneath "Patch of Grass," which is part of the large Van Gogh collection in the Kroller-Muller Museum in the Netherlands.
Knowing that mercury atoms were part of a red pigment and the antimony atoms were part of a yellow pigment, they were able to chart those colors in the underlying image.
"We visualized -- in great detail -- the nose, the eyes, according to the chemical composition." Dik said. Scanning a roughly 7-inch square of the larger portrait took two full days.
Though his paintings are now worth millions, Van Gogh was virtually unknown during his lifetime and struggled financially before committing suicide in 1890. He often reused canvas to save money, either painting on the back or over the top of existing paintings, and experts believe roughly a third of his works hide a second painting underneath.
The painting under "Patch of Grass" adds weight to the theory that Van Gogh mailed paintings from the Netherlands to his brother Theo, and, after moving to Paris to join him, found the old works and painted over them.
Teio Meedendorp, an independent Van Gogh expert in Amsterdam, said the underlying woman was probably painted between November 1884 and March 1885, while Van Gogh was living in the Dutch village of Nuenen. In that period he painted a series of heads in what Meedendorp called "oil lamps and candlelight," followed by the famous "Potato Eaters" of April 1885.
Both Dik and Meedendorp were excited about the prospect of using the technique to probe paintings by Van Gogh and other famous artists such as Rembrandt and Picasso.
"I was really surprised by the quality of the image, which is really promising for the future of research," Meedendorp said.
However, scanning other paintings may be difficult since the technique requires a particle accelerator, and few exist in the world and none in the Netherlands.
Dik and Janssens' scientific paper was published online Wednesday in the Journal of Analytical Chemistry.AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) -- A team of European scientists unveiled on Wednesday a... more
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A previously unknown portrait of a woman by Vincent van Gogh has been revealed in a high-tech look beneath another of his paintings, it was announced today.
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Scientists used a new technique to peer beneath the paint of van Gogh's "Patch of Grass." Already it was known there was something there, likely a portrait of some sort. Van Gogh was known to paint over his work, perhaps as much as a third of the time.
Behind the painting, done mostly in greens and blues, is a portrait of a woman rendered in browns and reds.
The new technique is based on "synchrotron radiation induced X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy" and is said to be an improvement on X-ray radiography, which has been used to reveal concealed layers of other famous paintings. The new method measures chemicals in the pigments. Specifically, mercury and the element antimony were useful in revealing the woman's face.
The work was done by researchers at Delft University of Technology in the the Netherlands and the University of Antwerp in Belgium, along with help from other institutions.
"Patch of Grass" was painted by van Gogh in Paris in 1887 and is owned by the Kröller-Müller Museum.
The reconstruction enables art historians to understand the evolution of van Gogh's work better, the researchers said in a statement. And the new technique is expected to pave the way for research into many other concealed paintings. A previously unknown portrait of a woman by Vincent van Gogh has been revealed in a... more
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A Vincent van Gogh work, painted weeks before he killed himself, is going on the market for the first time in more than 90 years, valued at $30m (£15m). Bargain!A Vincent van Gogh work, painted weeks before he killed himself, is going on the... more
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2 of the 4 paintings stolen from Zurich's Emil Buehrle Collection were recovered, Swiss police say.
"The two recovered paintings are Monet's Poppies near Vetheuil (1879) and van Gogh's Chestnut in Bloom (1890)."
The two still missing are "Degas's Count Lepic and his Daughters (1871) and Cezanne's Boy in a Red Jacket (1888), are still missing."
What does one do with such famous stolen paintings? Wouldn't they be hard to sell?
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The impressionist and post-impressionist paintings by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh were stolen from a museum by three armed men at the E.G. Buehrle Collection in the Swiss capital.
"We're talking about the biggest ever robbery carried out in Switzerland, even Europe," were the words of a police spokesperson as the paintings are worth an estimated 163 million dollars.
If a criminal outfit are intelligent enough to pull this off then they must know that they won't be able to sell them? Did I miss something? The impressionist and post-impressionist paintings by Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas,... more
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Four world famous art pieces have been stolen from a Zürich gallery. The paintings are all influenced by the 'impressionist' movement, with pieces from Paul Cezanne, Vincent Van Gogh, Degas, and Monet all being taken.
Three men entered the gallery wearing masks and in the words of police, performed a 'spectacular' heist, which saw them make off with the works. Police reported that one of the three thieves harassed the gallery's personnel with a pistol, while the other two stole the oil paintings straight off the gallery's walls.
The thieves made off with over $160 (£80) million worth of art.
This is the second art heist this year, with two paintings by Pablo Picasso going missing only a few weeks ago.
The picture shown is a replica of Claude Monet's 'Poppies near Vetheuil,'which was reportedly taken in the robbery.
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The artist was a prolific letter writer who mused on subjects ranging from love and sex to depression and religion. Now, after painstaking translation, his correspondence is to go on display at the Royal Academy. When Vincent van Gogh abandoned his work as a Christian missionary in 1880 to take up the study of painting in earnest, he spoke of his desire to discover how artists of all mediums tried to communicate universal truths and, ultimately, in their own way, reach the divine. "To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces that leads to God," he said. "One man wrote or told it in a book; another in a picture."
The artist was a prolific letter writer who mused on subjects ranging from love and... more
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Art historians announced that they have discovered a valuable lost work by the painter Vincent Van Gogh hidden under an existing canvas at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Art historians announced that they have discovered a valuable lost work by the painter... more
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