Van Gogh : still lifes / edited by Ortrud Westheider and Michael Philipp ; with contributions by Sjraar van Heugten, Valerie Hortolani, Stefan Koldehoff, Michael Philipp, Eliza Rathbone, Oliver Tostmann, Marije Vellekoop, Michael F. Zimmermann.
Publisher:
Prestel,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.
"This catalog is published in conjunction with the exhibition Van Gogh: Still Lifes, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, October 26, 2019 to February 2, 2020"--Page 264. Includes bibliographical references (pages 258-261).
Contents:
"A painful examination of things": contemporaries, collectors, and philosophers on Van Gogh's still lifes / selected by Michael Philipp. Tradition and adaptation: the reception of the Dutch Old Masters in Van Gogh's still life / Michael Philipp -- From "snot tones" to "sound colours": Van Gogh and colour theory / Marije Vellekoop -- "He is painting flowers mostly": Van Gogh's Parisian floral still lifes / Stefan Koldehoff -- Van Gogh's late still-life paintings: from still to life / Eliza Rathbone -- Van Gogh or not? Forgeries, copies, and misattributions in Van Gogh's still lifes / Oliver Tostmann -- Fetish and alienation: Van Gogh and the end of the still life / Michael F. Zimmermann -- Catalog of exhibited works / Michael Pilipp and Valerie Hortolani -- Vincent van Gogh: a biography / Valerie Hortolani -- "To paint a given object, whatever the shape or colour may be, without hesitation": passages on still life from Van Gogh's letters / selected by Michael Philipp -- "A painful examination of things": contemporaries, collectors, and philosophers on Van Gogh's still lifes / selected by Michael Philipp.
Summary:
"From his first paintings to the colorful flower images of his later career, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) repeatedly painted still lifes. In this genre, he could try out various media and alternatives--from depicting space using light and shadow to experiments with color. The first exhibition on this theme will present 27 paintings and use them to analyze the key stages in van Gogh's life and work. Van Gogh: Still Lifes is the first systematic exploration of this important theme in the artist's work in an exhibition. Of the roughly 800 paintings that Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) created during his ten-year career as an artist, some 170--about a fifth--are still lifes. It is therefore all the more remarkable that there has never been a monographic exhibition dedicated to the genre of the still life in Van Gogh's work"--Publisher's description.
Series:
Barberini Studien Museum Barberini publication series
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.