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 tortured artist” in the popular imagination. A new show at the Royal Academy in London takes a less sensationalist approach to his oeuvre.
Read a review of The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters here.
The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters is on at the Royal Academy until 18/04/10
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