Quote of the day by Vincent van Gogh: "The beginning is perhaps more difficult than anything else, but keep heart, it will turn out all right"

Quote of the Day: Starting new ventures often feels overwhelming. Vincent van Gogh's words remind us that initial ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Van Gogh Painting Gets a New Name Thanks to an Eagle-Eyed Chef

Vincent van Gogh's recently renamed still life Red Cabbages and Garlic (1887) Niels via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 When Ernst de Witte visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam last year, he ...
Artnet

There Are No Pictures of Van Gogh as an Adult, So a Digital Artist Created Eerily Realistic Photos to Show How He Might Have Looked

Vincent van Gogh was a master of the self-portrait, but those highly stylized depictions are the only clues we have to the famed Post-Impressionist painter’s appearance, as there are no confirmed ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Art Institute’s new Van Gogh exhibit a showcase for works we barely know

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PBS

Diagnosing Vincent Van Gogh

Every schoolchild knows that Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear. The bloody event occurred on Dec. 23, 1888. But how much he sliced away (the entire ear, a chunk of his earlobe, or a mutilation in ...
Artnet

Van Gogh Had Many Friends, and Even a Girlfriend. A New Show Seeks to Debunk the Myth of the ‘Lonely, Tormented Artist’

In the summer of 1879, Vincent van Gogh was living in the Borinage, a poor coal mining region of Belgium, working as a priest. He sat down to write a letter of gratitude to his brother, Theo, who had ...
The Art Newspaper

Why did Van Gogh sign his paintings as ‘Vincent’?

Although Vincent van Gogh is most unusual in signing his work with just his first name, until now there has been no detailed ...
CBS News

"At Eternity's Gate": Recreating Van Gogh's vision on screen

At the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the actor and the artist come face-to-face, as Willem Dafoe studies a self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh. "It's like a relic, I can't get over that. Once ...
Forbes

Myth-Busting Vincent Van Gogh At Columbia (South Carolina) Museum Of Art

Vincent Van Gogh. Penniless, unappreciated, isolated. A gentle soul suffering for his art, misunderstood by all. Fiction. All of it. No artist wears more mythology than Van Gogh. Surprising, since few ...

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A self-portrait of Dutch Postimpressionist artist Vincent van Gogh has been uncovered hidden behind his 1885 painting "Head ...
PBS

Who Was Vincent van Gogh?

Born March 30th, 1853 in Holland, Vincent van Gogh was the eldest son of a Protestant minister. Vincent was expected to conform to a strict, religious upbringing. At the age of 16, he went to work at ...