This richly illustrated volume explores mystical themes in European, Scandinavian, and North American landscape paintings from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. This book features works by Emily Carr, Marc Chagall, Arthur Dove, Paul Gauguin, Lawren Harris, Wassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Georgia O'Keeffe, Vincent van Gogh and James McNeill Whistler, among others. Common to their work is the expression of the spiritual crisis that arose in society and the arts in reaction to the disillusionments of the modern age, and against the malaise that resulted in the Great War. Many artists turned their backs on institutional religion, searching for truth in universal spiritual philosophies. This book includes essays investigating mystical landscape genres and their migration from Scandinavia to North America, with a focus upon the Group of Seven and their Canadian and American counterparts. Accompanying an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Musée d'Orsay, this book offers a penetrating look at the Symbolist influence on the landscape genre.
Vincent van Gogh was a restless soul. He spent his twenties searching for a vocation and once he had determined to become an artist, he remained a traveller, always seeking fresh places for the inspiration and opportunities he needed to create his work. Living with Vincent van Gogh tells the story of the great artist’s life through the lens of the places where he lived and worked, including Amsterdam, London, Paris and Provence, and examines the impact of these cityscapes and landscapes on his creative output. Featuring artworks, unpublished archival documents and contemporary landscape photography, this book provides unique insight into one of the most important artists in history.
This is an eye-opening catalogue that chronicles van Gogh's ongoing relationship with nature throughout his entire career. Among the featured works are van Gogh's drawings and paintings, along with related materials that illuminate his reading, sources, and influences.
The examples convey not only these major themes but also the painters' belief in the progress of civilization through science and industry. The book thus expands the scope of Impressionist celebrations of modernity to include what might be called Impressionism's "other landscape" and proposes that in the Impressionists' effort to forge a modern landscape art, those signs of modernity defined their vision most clearly."--BOOK JACKET.
- Digitally restored illustrations- Translated captions- AnnotatedVincent Van Gogh's short art career provided the world unparalleled paintings from a troubled genius. It was an age of post-Impressionistic color, form and wonderment that art experts and connoisseurs discovered only after the master's death. Bouts of anxiety, mental illness and epilepsy may have tormented him and brought about his suicide at the age of 37. But they may also have been catalysts for an emotionality and vibrance in his art that reveals a turbulent search for grace.This volume displays 50 Van Gogh landscapes chronologically arranged in a digitally restored state: their eye-popping brilliance and vivid vitality come across just as on the day Vincent Van Gogh finished them. Unless otherwise noted, they were originally oil paintings on canvas or wood.The following landscapes are included:1. Landscape with Dunes, 18822. Dune Landscape Near The Hague, 18833. Heath with Wheelbarrow, 18834. Rectory Garden of Nuenen in the Snow, 18855. Landscape with Church and Houses, 18856. Sheaves of Wheat, 18857. Windmills in Montmartre, 18868. View of Mills from Stone Quarry in Montmartre, 18869. Vegetable Gardens in Montmartre, 188710. Grain Field with Poppies and a Lark, 188711. Path in the Voyer d'Argenson Park in Asnieres, 188712. Vegetable Gardens in Montmartre, 188713. Vegetable Gardens in Montmartre, 188714. Snow Landscape with Arles in the Background, 188815. Meadow with Flowers under Stormy Skies, 188816. Farmhouse and Wheat Field, 188817. Trees and House near Arles, 188818. View of Arles with Irises, 188819. Farm Houses and Wheat Field near Arles, 188820. Wheat Field with Sheaves, 188821. Wheat Field with Alpilles Hills in the Background, 188822. Wheat Field and Factories at Sundown, 188823. Wheat Field, 188824. Wheat Field with Sheaves of Grain, 188825. Hay Stacks in Provence, 188826. Farm House in Provence, 188827. Plain "La Crau" near Arles with Montmajour in Background, 188828. Wheat Field with View of Arles, 188829. View of Saites-Maries, 188830. Plowed Field, 188831. Plain "La Crau" near Arles with Peach Trees, 188932. Les Alpilles Mountain Landscape near St. Remy, 188933. Wheat Field with Cypress, 188934. Green Wheat Field with Cypress, 188935. Mountain Landscape near St. Remy, 188936. Wheat Field with Cypresses, 188937. Wheat Field Behind Hospital St. Paul (The Harvest), 188938. Wheat Field behind Hospital St. Paul with Farmer, 188939. Entrance to the Stone Quarry, 188940. Wheat Field in the Rain, 188941. Path in St. Remy with Female Figure, 188942. Enclosed Field at Sunrise, 188943. Les Peiroulets Gorge, 188944. Meadow and Tree with View of Mount Gaussier, 188945. Green Wheat Field, 189046. View of Vessenot in Auvers, 189047. Wheat Field near Auvers with White House, 189048. Wheat Field with Crows, 189049. Plain of Auvers with Rain Clouds, 189050. Wheat Field under Stormy Skies, 1890
From rolling meadows to moody skies, how does the beauty, complexity, and dimensions of the world translate to artistic expression? Explore the evolution and importance of the landscape genre from the late Middle Ages to modern times in this selection of some of the most important landscapes in history from practitioners as diverse as Titian, ..
Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890) is often mentioned as one of the best examples of Japonism, Western art inspired by Japanese art. Van Gogh was infatuated with a vision of Japanese art. He experienced this mainly from Japanese woodblock prints which became widely available after Commodore Matthew Perry forced Japan to open with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854 after abt 250 years of seclusion. Van Gogh and his brother Theo dealt in these prints for a while and Van Gogh´s studio was literally plastered with them. Van Gogh vision of Japan was a mythical fantasy, an ideal for the artist, and he even tried to establish an artist´s colony to live out this dream. Japan, on the other hand, and especially the woodblock print artists, were inspired by earlier Dutch engraved prints, which had a profound influence on artists like Katsushika Hokusai from abt 1800. It was from these prints Western perspective entered into Japanese art. In the period from abt 1800 to 1850 Japanese prints evolved with Hokusai´s 36 Views of Mt Fuji and became the inspiration that met painters like van Gogh. In a way, what these Western artists saw, was a Japanese mirror of their own processed artistic tradition.
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Van Gogh Repetitions, organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., and the Cleveland Museum of Art."
Published to accompany an exhibition at The Van Gogh Museum, this volume is the first to trace Van Gogh's decade-long achievement as a draughtsman. It features about 110 of his finest works, as well as a group of related paintings, all of which offer insight into his ongoing development as an artist.
