Vincent van Gogh

Was Vincent van Gogh truly a tortured genius who took his own life, or was he the unfortunate victim of an accidental murder?
The world-famous art of David Hockney (1937) is colourful and colossal. Hockney is inspired by nature, he makes use of bright colours and experiments with perspective. Van Gogh also dealt with this.…
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings to rival that of world’s most famous museums. This summer they’re showing off their collection, along…
How can an "ugly" painting be a masterpiece?
Two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors published a book titled Van Gogh: The Life that stunned the art world. Therein, Gregory White Smith and Stephen Naifeh state that the artist didn't actually commit…
Two Pulitzer Prize-winning authors published a book titled Van Gogh: The Life that stunned the art world. Therein, Gregory White Smith and Stephen Naifeh state that the artist didn't actually commit…
Serena Altschul talks with Golden Globe-nominated actor Willem Dafoe and director Julian Schnabel about their entrancing new film about Vincent van Gogh, "At Eternity's Gate," which offers a fresh…
Are artists really more tortured than the rest of us? Let's consider this myth and the studies that assess whether there might be a link between creativity and mental illness.