A detail from one of Vincent van Gogh's most beautiful floral portraits, Almond Blossom, has been applied to Galison's Vincent Floral Collection keepsake box of note cards. Van Gogh created this work to celebrate the birth of his nephew, using the fragile buds as a symbol of new life. Details of four vibrant oil on canvas floral portraits are reproduced on four cards each: Almond Blossom, 1890, from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam; Sunflowers, 1888, from the Neue Pinakothek, Munich; A Vase of Roses, 1890, from a private collection, and Irises, 1889, from the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu. The sturdy decorative box holds cards and envelopes neatly, and when the cards have been sent, it's great for storing all sorts of little things—from extra buttons to pearls.
Explore the depth of this brilliant and tortured artist's spirituality and find a new Van Gogh--philosopher of life, unorthodox theologian, and determined seeker of global spirituality.
On May 8th, 1889, Vincent Van Gogh was admitted to a mental asylum near St.-Remy-de-Provence where he remained as a voluntary patient until May the following year. Throughout the year, Van Gogh enjoyed a continuous dialogue with his brother about his art, his mental condition, his hopes and ambitions, and from time to time his despair and sense of failure. The asylum year saw Vincent at his most raw and needy, but also at his most creative - turning out the equivalent of a masterpiece a day. This book offers an account, month by month, of that crucial penultimate chapter in Van Gogh s life. It is separated from the other chapters in the artist s life because although treated in all the numerous biographies it is none the less a self-contained episode, a play within a play, with a shape and dynamic of its own. Van Gogh s asylum year is unlike any other year in the long history of art."
Hear that voice inside your head? The one that nitpicks all your new ideas? That's your monkey. This hypercritical little critter loves to make you second-guess yourself. It stirs up doubt. It kills your creativity. But it can be stopped. And acclaimed author Danny Gregory is here to show you how. After battling it out with his own monkey, he knows how to shut yours down. Gregory provides insight into the inner workings of your inner critic and teaches you how to put it in its place. Soon you'll be able to silence that voice and do what you want to do—create. Now follow his lead and Shut Your Monkey.
This title is one in a series presenting four masterpieces by four immortal nineteenth-century French painters. Each miniature book faithfully reproduces its title painting on the front cover, and is packaged in a handsome slipcase that doubles as a picture frame. The frame can stand up on a desk or tabletop or be hung on the wall to display the book cover's striking painting. Each book's interior discusses its title painting, describing the artist's approach to his work, analyzing the picture's fine points, and showing close-up details from the painting. A final two-page spread presents a timeline capsule biography that lists significant events in the painter's life. Van Gogh--Starry Night shows and discusses Vincent Van Gogh's masterpiece, which is a mystically glowing nighttime landscape, and ranks today as one of the artist's most popular and beloved paintings.
This new overview of the work of world-renowned Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen focuses on his most recent projects over the past decade. A follow-up and companion to Vincent Van Duysen Works 1989–2009, this brand new overview presents Belgian architect Van Duysen’s most recent works over the course of the past decade. With photography by internationally renowned architectural photographer Helene Binet, it will be a welcome addition to any architecture lover or design enthusiast’s shelf. In recent years Van Duysen has secured his reputation as one of the major tastemakers of minimalist design. The projects featured in this new book include an array of elegant residences in New York, Paris, and The Hamptons, and other private and public buildings, such as the Alexander Wang storefront in London. Van Duysen’s forays into product and interior design are also featured, including yacht interiors and furniture and homeware design for brands including the esteemed Italian house Molteni & C. With foreword by the actor, and close friend of Van Duysen, Julianne Moore, this new collection of works also includes an insightful preface by the architect Nicola di Battista.
Hedgehog Art Though the Ages is a humorous and lovely book. This amusing work of fictional art history features various inspiring works of art with hedgehogs as the key theme. The book includes over forty amazing, adorable, and delightful works from the Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, Romantic and Modern periods, as well as sections on Americana and Japanese art. With lighthearted and amusing commentary on each art period along with descriptions and commentary on each artwork focusing on the history of hedgehogs in art, this book is sure to amuse and delight students of art history, fans of hedgehogs, and a general audience of all ages.
- Digitally restored illustrations- Translated captions- AnnotatedVincent Van Gogh often depicted flowering fields, gardens and floral arrangements through the skilled prism of his own unique vision, from the tulips of his native Holland to the sunflowers, irises and lavender fields of Southern France where he spent his last years. In particular, the years 1887 and 1890 were peak years for his flower paintings. Vincent Van Gogh's short art career provided the world with unparalleled paintings from a troubled genius. It was to be an age of post-Impressionistic color, form and wonderment that the art world 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 of Van Gogh's finest flower art pieces in a digitally restored state: their eye-popping brilliance and vitality are just as on the day Vincent Van Gogh finished them. Unless otherwise noted, they were originally oil paintings on canvas or wood. The arrangement is chronological within each category.Images include: FLOWERS GROWINGTulip Fields, 1883Garden with Sunflower & Female Figure, 1887Shed in Montmartre with Sunflower, 1887Lavender Field of Saintes-Maries, 1888Flowering Garden with Path, 1888Flower Garden, 1888Garden Behind House (Noon Hour), 1888Memory of the Garden at Etten, 1888Iris, 1889Irises (Sword Lilies), 1889Lilac Bush, 1889Poppies & Butterflies, 1890Rose Bush, 1890Marguerite Gachet in Her Garden, 1890Poppy Field, 1890Garden of Daubigny I, 1890Child with an Orange among the Flowers, 1890Young Girl in Wheat Field with Poppies, 1890Garden at Auvers, 1890Garden of Daubigny II, 1890FLOWER ARRANGEMENTSLunaria, 1884Forget-Me-Not and Peonies, 1886Vase with Asters and Phlox, 1886Vase with Sunflowers, Roses & Other Flowers, 1886Vase with Red Poppies, 1886Vase with Zinnias, 1886Geraniums in a Flower Pot, 1886Carnations in a Vase, 1886Cornflowers, Poppies, Peonies & Chrysanthemums, 1886Vase with Red & White Carnations on a Yellow Background, 1886Crown Imperials in a Copper Vase, 1887Vase with Daisies and Anemones, 1887Lilacs, Daisies & Anemones in a Vase, 1887Lilacs with an Orange Background, 1887Two Cut Sunflowers, 1887Four Withered Sunflowers, 1887Fourteen Sunflowers in a Vase, 1888Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase, 1888Three Sunflowers in a Vase, 1888Vase with Oleanders next to Zola's "Joie de Vivre" Novel, 1888Twelve Sunflowers in a Vase, 1889Fourteen Sunflowers in a Vase, 1889Vase with Irises, 1890Irises on a Yellow Background, 1890Vase with Roses, 1890Wildflowers and Thistles in a Vase, 1890Vase with Greater Musk Mallows, 1890Cornflowers & Poppies in a Vase, 1890Japanese Vase with Roses & Anemones, 1890Vase with Flowers & Thistles, 1890
