Van Gogh. One of the artist who made history.
Illuminating the Darkness. Starry Night. One of my favorite painting.
The article says that this exhibition was devoting to Van Gogh who was worlds beloved artist, which may not seem like much of a reach for the Museum of Modern Art. It is obvious that such exhibition are going to hit big box office and increase membership but this exhibition is largly against uch charges. It is an anti-blockbuster. It quitely displayed 23paintings, 9 drawings and several letters by Van Gogh in six intimate galleries. The final gallery displayed collection of books which were read by him, out of which maily were poems about the night.
Organized with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, this show has been overseen by Joachim Pissarro, adjunct curator in the Modern’s department of painting and sculpture and a professor of art history at Hunter College; Sjraar van Heugten, head of collections at the Van Gogh Museum; and Jennifer Field, curatorial assistant in painting and sculpture at the Modern.
Van Gogh discovered new colors everywhere, especially at night. This show explores his special relationship with darkness. It provides a view of the tenderness, urgency and brilliance at the core of his art, as well as the openness to nature that set it burning. It is obvious that one cannot see at night or in dark yet he painted what he saw, ultimately painting his colors one against the other. later he discovered on their clashes with exaggerated layers of paint, bringing backgrounds forward and giving each inch of canvas its own sense of life.
What we see in an artist here is; who gained crucial inspiration and information from the dust, the twilight hours and the night with their constantly changing moons and relatively stable stars followed by the dawn’s first glimmers. This is what challenged his visual perception, his imagination and expanded his palette and this is what kept him close to the nature. Night also brought him the peace from the daily labors of peasants whom he admired all day.
Through his journey the night could have been traced with many other paintings, collabrating museums have an advantage. But in terms of masterpieces, with the dark interior of the Van Gogh Museum’s “Potato Eaters,” which is being shown in New York for the first time in 50 years. Early work of Van Gogh which began when he was 27 and committed to be an painter after working in uncle's art gallery in London. It ends with the Modern’s even more famous “Starry Night” (1889), under the spinning skies of Southern France, where van Gogh’s love of painting. The southern sun ignited his sense of color, but he found just as much chromatic life after it set, outdoors or in.
He studied the smooth surfaces, tentitive shapes, scarce light. Van Gogh grasp the power ofpigments in the dark. With the raw-faced peasant family in the many shades of gray and grime of “The Potato Eaters,” van Gogh makes his sympathy with the harshness of rural life and his awareness.
Van Gogh painted “Night Cafe” over three sleepless nights. He was conscious both that it had the “ambience of a hellish furnace,” as he wrote to his brother, Theo, and that it used “six or seven reds from blood-red to delicate pink, contrasting with the same number of pale or dark greens,” as he wrote to his sister Wil, both on Sept. 9, 1888.
His famour painting "The Starry Night" had to say that the bunch of stars up in the sky like in chorus line in rehearsal while th e light of the town below extend their glow into watery reflections. This painting was made at stretch 12 nights. This painting is one of his beloved painting. Loved by all.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/arts/design/19gogh.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=design
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