When Vincent Van Gogh moved to Arles, France in 1887, he dreamed of starting an artist community.
The whole myth and industry around Vincent van Gogh is based on the same thing.
Vik Muniz, for instance, does a nice riff on Magritte's declaration by faking a quite authentic-looking Vincent van Gogh painting from the back.
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He claimed that his book would reveal the universal source of artists as diverse as Leonardo da Vinci and Vincent van Gogh.
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Researchers have spotted a never-before-seen chemical effect in Vincent Van Gogh's Flowers In A Blue Vase that is dulling the work's vibrant yellows.
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The 105, 000 visitors to the museum are 2, 000 more than the previous record set in 1948 when works by Vincent Van Gogh were showcased.
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"We are a very poor region and it's really amazing to know that someone as celebrated as Vincent van Gogh stayed there, " he said.
As she approached the painting -- Vincent van Gogh's breathtaking Starry Night -- and joined the group, she felt gathered up into their shared, awestruck stillness.
It was a room out of Vincent Van Gogh somehow - you know, ascetic - a bed, a cot, really, against the wall, a window and an upright piano.
On page 851 the authors start to make their case that Vincent Van Gogh was shot by a 16-year-old boy called Rene Secretan, who had a history of tormenting the troubled artist.
And pay little heed to the one person who was definitely there - Vincent Van Gogh - when he quite clearly said, "Do not accuse anyone, " he said, "it is I who wanted to kill myself".
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Somewhere between the 13-year-old in rural Mississippi who wants to go to Harvard and the second-graders in Harlem studying Vincent Van Gogh, I ceased being surprised and started being angry that what I saw was still the exception and not the rule.
Theo van Gogh introduced Vincent and Van Rappard, who lived in Brussels, in 1880, and the pair corresponded for four years.
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Recent openings include A Day in the Life of Joe Egg, The Play What I Wrote and Vincent in Brixton (about Van Gogh's love affair with his London landlady).
The Child With An Orange was one of several works Van Gogh painted after spending time with his baby nephew and godson, named Vincent after the artist.
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