VAN GOGH AND JOSEPH WRIGHT

Van Gogh and Joseph Wright on: "Two Crabs" vs. "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump"

Van Gogh and Joseph Wright on: "two crabs" vs. "An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump"

"Two Crabs" by Vincent Willem van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 1853 - 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist artist. Some of his paintings are now among the world's best known, most well liked and expensive works of art. The Artist and His Letters opened this weekend at the regal Academy of Arts. The exhibition focuses on Van Gogh's correspondence to supply an insight into his ideas about art, nature and publications and the way he characterized himself as an artist and human being. It features again 35 original letters, onto credit from the Van Gogh Museum within Amsterdam, and round 65 paintings and thirty drawings that express the principal subjects located within the correspondence. Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) composed mostly to his younger brother Theo (1857-1891), who was an art-dealer and sustained Vincent both strongly felt and financially all through his life and career. Other letters are addressed to his sister Willemien and to fellow artists, surrounding the Dutch painter Anthon van Rappard and Paul Gauguin. Many are illustrated with small comprehensive sketches which Van Gogh used to show a work in progress. The first foremost Van Gogh public showing in London for over 40 years, 'The Real Van Gogh' provides a fascinating glimpse into the brain of a misunderstood and misrepresented artist. The diversity and versatility of his works is striking; the breadth of his talent, which was only recognized after his death, is stunning.

Vincent van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert in the southern Netherlands in 1853. His father Theodorus van Gogh was a Protestant pastor of the Dutch restructured Church. Vincent began work, in 1869, for Goupie & Cie a firm of art-dealers in The Hague. He was then moved to London and then to Paris. His paid work was, although, terminated in 1876 and the following year he journeyed to Amsterdam to study theology. In 1879, he began working as a missionary in a mining district in Belgium. Van Gogh's career as an artist did not begin until 1880, when he was 27. During his somewhat short ten-year creative vocation he made, nonetheless, over 800 paintings and 1,200 drawings. In the last 70 days of his life, he completed more than 70 works. On July 27th, 1890, aged 37, Van Gogh shot himself in the chest. He died two days later.

Van Gogh is most famous for his colorful depictions of still lives and landscapes using rhythmic and swinging brush strokes; however, the majority of his paintings were in black and white. He only used color during the last four years of his career after he moved to Paris in February 1886. The first part of the public showing is dedicated to Van Gogh's Dutch country sides, which he painted, at the beginning of his vocation, in ...