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A BRUSH WITH VAN GOGH.
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Arbroath Herald (Arbroath, Scotland)
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January 25, 2008
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A COLLISTON artist's career is taking off after a brush with one of the art world's most famous names - Van Gogh.
George Kennedy has long been an admirer of the 19th-century artist, Vincent Van Gogh, and after meeting his descendant, Jan Van Gogh, George's works are set to be exhibited across the globe.
Van Gogh, an art lecturer who resembles his ancestor, has already included a Kennedy piece in an exhibition in eastern Europe and has commissioned another piece for an exhibition that will tour the world, ensuring international exposure.
George was put in touch with Vincent's great-grand-nephew through a friend last summer and sent him some work. He said: "I ...
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Van Gogh's new canvas
Scotland on Sunday;
March 9, 2003 ;
IAIN GALE;
787 words
......painters he admired and those he emulated. This is Van Gogh as you've never seen him before. From the inside...into his art and gradually begin to understand how Van Gogh assimilates, using old masters to realise new ideas...revelation. Yet think about the essential holiness of Van ...
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Shaped by Sunflowers; How van Gogh inspired the expressionists.
Newsweek International;
December 11, 2006 ;
686 words
...Byline: Ginanne Brownell When Vincent van Gogh painted Poppies in the Field in 1889...without doubt a genius. The extent of van Gogh's impact on the expressionists is the...eponymous museum in Amsterdam. Vincent van Gogh and Expressionism (through March 4) compiles...
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Van Gogh: The Full Palette
The Washington Post;
October 2, 1998 ;
Hank Burchard;
787 words
...VINCENT van Gogh streaked like a comet across the world...view at the National Gallery of Art. The van Gogh show is the toughest ticket in town because...that the man is doomed. The vision of van Gogh (1853-1890) sometimes is so vivid he's...
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Van Gogh works link to modernists
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);
April 1, 2007 ;
David Minthorn Associated Press;
628 words
...NEW YORK -- Vincent van Gogh's everyday scenes rendered in bold colors...exhibition of 80 works featuring some of van Gogh's most luminous canvases. Renowned paintings...the Dutchman's powerful inspiration. "Van Gogh and Expressionism," featuring German...
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Arts: Double vision To mark Van Gogh's 150th anniversary, an exhibition in...
The Independent - London;
February 20, 2003 ;
MARTIN BAILEY;
787 words
...Van Gogh was born 150 years ago, on 30 March, and...Vincent's Choice: The Musee Imaginaire of Van Gogh" provides a unique opportunity to discover...surprise it is. Curators at Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum began by considering the 1,100 paintings...
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The Artist Who Draws Crowds; Vincent van Gogh's Art and Life Continue To...
The Washington Post;
January 14, 1998 ;
Jo Ann Lewis;
787 words
...What is it about Vincent van Gogh? This Dutchman with the reddish beard...the Internet, you'll find at least 57 van Gogh Web sites. His life produced a Top...visitors, and many more were turned away. Van Gogh's portrait of his doctor fetched $82...
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With book, movie, songs, Van Gogh's appeal is universal.(Knight Ridder...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
October 27, 2000 ;
Lotozo, Eils Sozanski, Edward J.;
787 words
...PHILADELPHIA _ For nearly a century, Vincent van Gogh, painter of modern portraits, iconic sunflowers...money ever paid for a painting went for van Gogh's Portrait of Dr. Gachet, which cost a...last week, there have been at least 21 van Gogh shows, including nine in the last decade...
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At Eternity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh.
Church History;
December 1, 1999 ;
Siedell, Daniel A.;
787 words
......ernity's Gate: The Spiritual Vision of Vincent van Gogh. By Kathleen Powers Erickson. Foreword...00 cloth. The art and life of Vincent van Gogh has attracted a wide range of popular...clearly evident in the scholarship on van Gogh. The author's agenda is to correct the...
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VAN GOGH, VINCENT (1853-1890)
Young Students Learning Library;
558 words
...00-00-0000 Vincent Willem van Gogh was a painter whose brief, bright...he thought was failure. A Dutchman, van Gogh was born in Groot-Zundert, the eldest...clothes covered with coal dust. But van Gogh was not a good speaker, and he failed...
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A (CHUCK) CLOSE LOOK AT VAN GOGH'S PORTRAITS
The Boston Globe;
July 5, 2000 ;
Christine Temin, Globe Staff;
787 words
......the fine audio guide. Comparing his portraits to van Gogh's, Close says the reason he makes his heads so large...and you trip over a beard hair." Then he adds that van Gogh's portrait of the postman Joseph Roulin, while far...walk through nature." As for Dorfman, she shares van ...
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How the Germans invented Vincent van Gogh ; VISUAL ART ++ Van Gogh and...
The Independent on Sunday;
December 10, 2006 ;
Charles Darwent;
705 words
......Kunsthalle proposed that his museum buy van Gogh's Poppies in a Field at St-Remy in 1911...the picture, currently on loan to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, you suppress a little...story, though, is how untypical it was of Van Gogh's reception in Germany. In 1937, the spirit...
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Innkeeper wants to bring painting home, Van Gogh work is expected to sell...
Charleston Daily Mail;
October 31, 2007 ;
ELIZABETH RYAN;
653 words
......PRESS AUVERS-SUR-OISE, France - As Vincent van Gogh lay dying in a dingy room at a French...transformed it into a destination for van Gogh lovers, wants to bring the painting home - if he can raise the money for it. The van Gogh painting is estimated to sell for between...
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Tortured Souls.(Vincent Van Gogh, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC;...
Newsweek;
October 12, 1998 ;
Plagens, Peter;
787 words
......greatly to make great art? Check out the big Vincent van Gogh and Jackson Pollock exhibitions. At the moments of their deaths, both Vincent van Gogh and Jackson Pollock were failures. Van Gogh (1853-1890) lived his brief life in misery and poverty...
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Maurice Pialat's `Van Gogh' is a portrait of a hard-working, sensual...
The Boston Globe;
December 25, 1992 ;
Jay Carr, Globe Staff;
499 words
...VAN GOGH Directed and written by: Maurice Pialat...subtitles) Rated: R (sexuality, nudity) Vincent Van Gogh was unlucky in life, but no painter has...streak continues with Maurice Pialat's "Van Gogh." There's something to be said for the...
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