Artists

‘Sorrowful, yet always rejoicing’ was Vincent’s favourite Bible quote. This line from 2 Corinthians 6:10 was particularly important to him in his early years. What always makes you rejoice? 🌻 Vincent van Gogh, Self-Portrait with Pipe and Straw Hat (1887)

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Would Vincent have ended his life if he had known how loved he was? Theo wondered the same. He wrote to their mother: ‘If he could have seen how people behaved toward me when he had left us and the sympathy of so many for himself, he would at this moment not have wanted to die’.

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Contact with his family, gave Vincent energy: 📝‘I read your kind letters, then the letters from home as well, and that did me an enormous amount of good in giving me back a little energy, or rather the desire to climb back up again from the dejected state I’m in’.

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#Caturday Van Gogh-style! Two popular favourites united: Van Gogh and cats. Which do you like best 🐈 or 🌻? #VanGoghInspires Credit: @FatCatArt #VanGoghMuseum #Art #DailyArt #VanGogh #ArtExhibition

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Good advice from Vincent? 📝 ‘But you must love with a high, serious intimate sympathy, with a will, with intelligence, and you must always seek to know more thoroughly, better, and more’. Get closer to Vincent by reading his letters. Visit our exhibition: http://vangogh.nl/fHSz50C3Fj0

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📝 ‘He who lives uprightly and experiences true difficulty and disappointment and is nonetheless undefeated by it is worth more than someone who prospers and knows nothing but relative good fortune’. wrote Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo.

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Was Vincent happy in Arles? He was in any case at the height of his artistic powers. He used colour to express emotions, and tried daring combinations. For this Zouave, Vincent used rather loud, complementary colours. This allowed Vincent to present the Zouave as he ‘felt’.

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We’re opening again! After two quiet weeks, we are really looking forward to welcoming you again. We hope that you will be able to pay us a visit. Every visitor counts, and we can certainly use your support. 💛 Book your ticket now: http://vangogh.nl/Mepe50CnJPH

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Criticism? Surely not! Vincent’s artist friend Anthon van Rappard dared to criticise his painting The Potato Eaters. But what did Vincent really think of ‘criticism’? 📝 ‘.I’m too absolutely and utterly convinced that I am, after all, on the right path’.

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#VanGoghInspires Alireza Karimi, who recreates Van Gogh’s life in colour-filled comics. Which do you like best?

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Mr and Mrs Ginoux from Arles were often there for Vincent, also when he was at the asylum. Joseph wrote to him: 📝‘I have told everyone who knows you how you are, and everyone was glad to learn that you are in good health, and we hope to have the pleasure of seeing you soon’.

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All in all, Vincent van Gogh probably wrote more than 2,000 letters! Can you imagine that? Perhaps you can..how many WhatsApp messages do you think you send in just one day? The exhibition is currently closed. But we’re open online, every day http://vangogh.nl/Fdk550Cbt2P #museumathome

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To start with, Vincent didn’t have much confidence in Doctor Gachet, the physician who treated him: 📝 ‘he’s iller than I am, it seemed to me [..] Now when one blind man leads another blind man, do they not both fall into the ditch?’ In the end, the two became good friends.

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Hungry? #VanGoghInspires Kenza. Share your inspiration: http://vangogh.nl/QZEq50C3EfS

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Samen met @ASMLcompany presenteren we vandaag, op de Internationale Dag van de Wetenschap, het lesprogramma Masterminds & Masterpieces waarin wetenschap en kunst samenkomen: http://vangogh.nl/IafP50Cgr0L Met dank aan onze partner @DHLexpress voor de verzending van de lesmaterialen.

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