Vincent Van Gogh, Painted with Words: The Letters to Emile Bernard - Hardcover

Jansen, Leo; Luijten, Hans

 
9780847829934: Vincent Van Gogh, Painted with Words: The Letters to Emile Bernard

Synopsis

The correspondence between Van Gogh and Bernard covers the period 1877-89 and is largely devoted to the discussion of Van Gogh's problems and ambitions concerning painting.

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About the Author

Leo Jansen is the Van Gogh Museum's curator of paintings. He and Hans Luijten are editors of the Van Gogh Letters project. Nienke Bakker is a research assistant on the project.

From the Back Cover

Van Gogh's 22 letters to Émile Bernard, a fellow artist whom Van Gogh met in Paris, are significant in helping us understand the great masterpieces he would paint later, after his move to Arles. Since Bernard's side of the correspondence is lost, he plays the foil to the older, more experienced van Gogh, who elaborates on a philosophy of painting (in the end it's a question of expressing oneself powerfully), on the work he hopes to do (A starry sky, for example, well-it's a thing that I should like to try

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