De tekeningen van Vincent van Gogh

Christopher Lloyd

Mercatorfonds, 2023

45,00

For Vincent van Gogh, drawing was ‘the root of everything’. This explains the large number of drawings that the artist created during his short, turbulent life: more than a thousand works, often a reflection of personal, often lonely explorations in the emerging modern world, and of fears, something that still appeals to us today. The drawings of Vincent van Gogh are an in-depth account of the genius and individuality of what the artist has achieved in that area.

Art historian Christopher Lloyd examined Van Gogh’s works on paper from a new perspective. By studying the drawings thematically – from thoughtful figure studies to beautifully rendered places and landscapes to arresting portraits – he captured the artist’s successes, failures, experiments, trials and disappointments.

Primarily self-taught, Van Gogh approached drawing instinctively, but soon recognized the importance of mastering the grammar of the art – anatomy, figure drawing, foreshortening, perspective – as well as the materials and techniques, in order to express his emotional responses to convey a subject as vividly as possible. Using examples from the artist’s extensive and charged family correspondence, sketchbooks and comparative works of art by Dürer, Rembrandt and others, this overview offers us a better understanding of why drawing is so important within Van Gogh’s unique oeuvre and why it reflects its intensity and reputation of his painting. IN DUTCH!

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ISBN: 9789462303522

224 pages, illustrated, 24,5 x 21 cm, hardcover, Dutch