“The Large Plane Trees,” an 1889 work by Vincent Van Gogh at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Large Plane Trees
Posted: April 8, 2017 in Art, Artists, Photography, StrugglesTags: Cleveland, cleveland museum of art, Ohio, painter, Post-Impressionism, Vincent van Gogh
A few of my favorite things
Posted: December 26, 2014 in Art, Artists, Life, Photography, The World around usTags: Andre Derain, Anselm Kiefer, art, art as a story teller, art gallery, art museum, conversion experience, expressionism, Freedom Fighter, gallery, Julian Schnabel, Julian Schnable, museum, Ohio, painting, Post-Impressionism, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh
I wanted to share a few of my favorite images from a recent trip to the Toledo Museum of Art. The first image is Wheat Fields with Reaper, Auvers, by Vincent van Gogh, 1890. I love the landscape, color and movement. The landscape reminds me of the area I live in, north-Central Ohio, except the warmth and sun that we tend to lack.
Repetitions
Posted: June 17, 2014 in Art, Artists, Life, Photography, Struggles, The World around usTags: art, Cleveland, cleveland museum of art, exhibition, exhibition curators, exhibitions, gallery, images, Ohio, painting, Post-Impressionism, répétitions, the Phillips Collection, Van Gogh Repetitions, Vincent van Gogh, visual culture
I recently visited the Cleveland Museum of Art to view the joint exhibition with the Phillips Collection -Van Gogh Repetitions . The two institutions have joined together to develop a ground-breaking exhibition that presents new insights into the art of Vincent van Gogh through a study of his répétitions—a term the artist used to describe a distinctive genre of works in his oeuvre.
Currently there is considerable debate even among experts over how Van Gogh produced his repetitions. It is known that he used a perspective frame to compose some paintings, a squaring technique to enlarge painted compositions and Buhot paper to transfer some drawings to lithographic stone. The exhibition curators and conservators are working closely together to investigate the various means Van Gogh employed to produce repetitions.
“Repetitions” is an impressively exhaustive effort to gather so many of these intimately related pieces in the same gallery for the first time. I felt honored to be able to observe and experience this work together in one place -almost like walking into Van Gog’s studio; allowing me to explore all of these paintings together makes for exciting art that welcomes viewers into the process!