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!
ISBN: 9789462303522
