Author: Museum team
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Van Gogh’s art in the world
While the Van Gogh Museum collection contains many of Van Gogh’s most famous paintings, there are still many others around the world in various other collections. The Starry Night, 1889 One of Van Gogh’s most iconic paintings, The Starry Night, is on display at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in New York. It was…
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Other artists – SIGNAC
Van Gogh was known to have painted along the Seine with another prominent artist of his time, Signac. Signac was an incredibly influential artist, credited with creating a new wave of neo-impressionism with another artist Seurat. This new wave was called pointillism. Vincet Van Gogh was heavily inspired by pointillism during his time in Paris,…
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Van Gogh’s chair
Van Gogh painted two companion paintings of chairs during his time in Arles. One was of his chair and the other of Gauguin’s chair. Gauguin had lived with Van Gogh in the Yellow House for nine weeks. These paintings are so rich in symbolic layers that they are better thought of as portraits portraying their…
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The Old Church Tower at Nuenen 1885
The Old Church Tower provides us with a closer look at how Vincent viewed peasant life and religion. Vincent lived near this old church tower in Nuenen, which was once connected to a church that collapsed around a hundred years earlier. Scattered around the tower are the graves of various farmers who lived in the…
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Van Gogh’s Many Loves
Van Gogh was no stranger to unconventional love. He first fell into an unrequited love with his second cousin, Caroline Haanebeek, who ended up marrying someone else. After Caroline, he proposed to another cousin, Kee Vos-Stricker. Everyone opposed Van Gogh’s pursuit of Kee, and her father tried to convince him to forget her. They viewed…
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Van Gogh’s Family
Vincent and his brother Theo famously had a very close relationship. However, you may not know Theo was not his only sibling and the two of them belonged to a family of eight. Theodorus and Anna were Vincent’s parents. His father was a minister and came from a family of prominent art dealers; most notably,…
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