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VAN GOGH AND THE ARTISTS HE LOVED - STEVEN NAIF...

The compelling story of how Vincent van Gogh developed his audacious  iconic style by immersing
himself in the work of others  featuring hundreds of paintings by Van Gogh as well as the
artists who inspired him—from the New York Times bestselling co-author of Van Gogh: The Life
Important . . . inspires us to look at Van Gogh and his art afresh.”—Dr. Chris Stolwijk 
general director  RKD–Netherlands Institute for Art History Vincent van Gogh’s paintings look
utterly unique—his vivid palette and boldly interpretive portraits are unmistakably his. Yet
however revolutionary his style may have been  it was actually built on a strong foundation of
paintings by other artists  both his contemporaries and those who came before him. Now  drawing
on Van Gogh’s own thoughtful and often profound comments about the painters he venerated 
Steven Naifeh gives a gripping account of the artist’s deep engagement with their work. We see
Van Gogh’s gradual discovery of the subjects he would make famous  from wheat fields to
sunflowers. We watch him experimenting with the loose brushwork and bright colors used by
Édouard Manet  studying the Pointillist dots used by Georges Seurat  and emulating the powerful
depictions of the peasant farmers painted by Jean-François Millet  all vividly illustrated in
nearly three hundred full-color images of works by Van Gogh and a variety of other major
artists  including Claude Monet  Paul Gauguin  and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec  positioned side
by side. Thanks to the vast correspondence from Van Gogh to his beloved brother  Theo  Naifeh 
a Pulitzer Prize winner  is able to reconstruct Van Gogh’s artistic world from within. Observed
in eloquent prose that is as compelling as it is authoritative  Van Gogh and the Artists He
Loved enables us to share the artist’s journey as he created his own daring  influential  and
widely beloved body of work.

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