Head of a Skeleton with a Burning Cigarette, Winter 1885-86. Oil on canvas, 32 X 24.5 cm.
I'd never seen this one before blunthead until you posted it in the Cool thread several months ago . . .it's way cool!
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I'd never seen this one before blunthead until you posted it in the Cool thread several months ago . . .it's way cool!
Yes, I think Van Gogh sometimes had a kind of wicked sense of humor.
I agree with you .... I love this song ....
I would have to say I love his Daisies and Poppies ...
When my oldest son graduates next year from William and Mary, we are going to NYC .... to MOMA to see The Starry Night .... it is William's favorite Van Gogh .... who happens to be his favorite artist ... and he loves many many artists .... Picasso is another fav ..... how many kids today know what the painting Guernica is about ?? (or adults for that matter ....) Mine does ... (proud momma moment)..
When my oldest son graduates next year from William and Mary, we are going to NYC .... to MOMA to see The Starry Night .... it is William's favorite Van Gogh .... who happens to be his favorite artist ... and he loves many many artists .... Picasso is another fav ..... how many kids today know what the painting Guernica is about ?? (or adults for that matter ....) Mine does ... (proud momma moment)..
Photograph of Vincent van Gogh, Age 13.
Van Gogh, Still Life with Scabiosa and Ranunculus, Spring 1886. Oil on canvas
Van Gogh, Three Novels, March-April 1887. Oil on panel, 31 x 48.5 cm. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.
Van Gogh painted this still life on the oval lid of a Japanese tea box!
Van Gogh, Old Man in Sorrow (On the Threshold of Eternity), April-May 1890. Oil on canvas, 81 x 65 cm.
Van Gogh, Irises, Spring 1890. Oil on canvas, 71 x 93 cm.
I grew up in the art world, so I used to take the good stuff for granted. I appreciate the masters more today. My mom was pretty good. She made a lot of money from prints...for other people.
Wow, I thought that was a photo at first glance! Very nice!I grew up in the art world, so I used to take the good stuff for granted. I appreciate the masters more today. My mom was pretty good. She made a lot of money from prints...for other people.
"Coconut Palm" was part of the fairly prestigious American Watercolor Society juried exhibition in N.Y. a while back. Mom took one of her first big trips for the occasion and ended up having a glass of wine with Andrew Wyeth.
And then there's the time (a very slow Sunday) when she was manning her art gallery...a grey older couple in jaunty sweatsuits came in. She ended the day early and finished on their yacht docked in the Beaufort Bay. The man gave her a case of the wine she'd enjoyed onboard (which she donated to a local hospital's charity auction). It was "Mount Mervelot," so you can probably guess who the guy was.
Wine and art...truth in both.
And then there's the time (a very slow Sunday) when she was manning her art gallery...a grey older couple in jaunty sweatsuits came in. She ended the day early and finished on their yacht docked in the Beaufort Bay. The man gave her a case of the wine she'd enjoyed onboard (which she donated to a local hospital's charity auction). It was "Mount Mervelot," so you can probably guess who the guy was.
Wine and art...truth in both.
Van Gogh, View from the Artist's Room on the Rue Lepic, Spring 1887.
