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Van Gogh: From Painting to Writing
Van Gogh shaped post-impressionist nineteenth-century concepts of painting with his creativity and technique becoming a forerunner of the Expressionists, the Fauves, and Modern Art. Today, however, van Gogh remains the symbol of the painter tortured by illness, circumstance, other people, and himself . . .
Art historian and professor of art history Victoria Charles follow van Gogh's correspondence as a common thread, punctuated by his paintings in which a new approach to colour is expressed. His revolutionary rich palettes and thick brushstrokes reflect the intensity of his life lived for the most part in poverty, tortured by his own demons. Van Gogh offers a lively study that follows this tortured genius from his early, gloomy works through to his vibrant Parisian period and the powerful paintings of the last years before his premature death at the age of thirty-seven.