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Article: Rhythmic lines: Van Gogh's drawings.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Vran Gogh--or Vincent, as he preferred to be known--wrote to his art-dealer brother Theo in early September 1880, having recently decided to become an artist: "Now I look at things with different eyes than I did before I began to draw." (1) That was putting it mildly. Organized by Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Vincent van Gogh: The Drawings" provided a visually exciting survey of the finest graphic works made during the Dutch artist's famed decade-long career. Around 100 of the more than 1,200 surviving drawings by Vincent were chosen, with an emphasis on works of irrepressible intensity created in groups and sequences during the ...
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