Would The Real Van Gogh Please Stand up

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Van Gogh, Self-portrait as an artist, January 1888
The real Van Gogh is hard to pin down, so many and various are the accounts and interpretations of the artist’s life. Famous for cutting off his own ear and dying penniless only to achieve inordinate posthumous fame and recognition, Van Gogh is the ideal incarnation of “the [...]