Artists

What is hiding under the paint in this work?
🤔 See what the X-ray revealed: http://vangogh.nl/caqj50AiuSS #ClosetoVincent
🌻 Vincent van Gogh, View from Theo's Apartment (1887)

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#VanGoghInspires! In this artwork, Waled wanted not only to express Vincent’s struggles, but also show his strength to carry on despite the setbacks. And that’s something that resonates for Waled! Do you see the likeness? #ClosetoVincent 🌻 Walid Shehab, The Dark Side of Vincent

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Now on display! Our latest acquisition Peasant Burning Weeds (1883). This is one of the five paintings that have survived from Vincent’s time in Drenthe. Will you pay us a visit to see the work up close?

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We would like to raise a glass of #taittinger #champagne to our new Partner in Celebrations🍾! @Taittinger_News @Taittinger_FR @WeetVanWijn

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This is the largest painting in our museum. It’s more than 2.5 metres wide and more than 2 metres high. Vincent loved the work of this French peasant painter. And he undoubtedly saw this painting with his own eyes at the 1887 national art exhibition in Paris. 👀

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Imagine realising, while painting, that your canvas is actually too small. 🤔 Vincent knew how to handle this dilemma! While he was painting Sunflowers, he thought that the uppermost flowers came too close to the top of the painting. To create more space, he added a wooden slat.

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📝 ‘I feel a power in me that I must develop, a fire that I may not put out but must fan’, wrote Vincent to his brother Theo in 1882. How are you fanning your fire today? #ClosetoVincent #VanGoghMuseum #Museum #Art #DailyArt #VanGogh

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📝 ‘Life in the abstract is already a riddle, reality turns it into a riddle within a riddle. And who are we to solve it? All the same, we ourselves form a particle of it, of the society of which we ask, Where is it going, to the devil or to God?’ Wrote Vincent to Theo in 1882.

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Just like a postcard? Vincent lived in many different places, such as Arles, London, Paris and Nuenen. He made cityscapes everywhere that he laid his hat, also in Antwerp. Want to get close to Vincent? Pay us a visit: http://vangogh.nl/YmTw50Aiu1J #ClosetoVincent

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An inside joke? Vincent and his artist friends Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Emile Bernard and Louis Anquetin jokingly called themselves the artists from the ‘Petit Boulevard’, referring to the area around the Boulevard de Clichy where nearly all of them worked.

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In a male-dominated art world Charley Toorop was highly successful, and her work paved the way for modern art in the Netherlands. See Charley’s work up close in the exhibition #InThePicture
🌻Charley Toorop, Self-Portrait (1922) @kunstmuseum.nl

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Which Van Gogh painting has special significance to you? Browse the collection: http://vangogh.nl/uMGO50zSlKn

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Did you know that – alongside the world’s largest collection of Van Gogh works – our museum is also home to paintings by other artists? Like this painting by Kees van Dongen, who was inspired by Vincent’s work. Book your time with Vincent: http://vangogh.nl/OCS350zSkQA

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📝‘I feel I have a raison d’être! I know that I could be a quite different man!’ is what Vincent wrote to his brother Theo, after his job as a lay preacher came to nothing. He felt paralysed by the course of events, but knew the future had something in store for him.

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Join us live in our exhibition 'In The Picture' with curator Lisa and @SpencerMuseum. Today we're zooming in on the self-portraits of Vincent van Gogh and Max Oppenheimer. Livestreamed on YouTube at 6pm CEST http://vangogh.nl/sp4A50Aa4zU More about the exhibit: http://vangogh.nl/v2Yb50Aa4zT

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‘Now I have to change subjects, the orchards having mostly lost their blossom’, wrote Vincent on 20 April 1888. Just five (!) days later, he had found a new source of inspiration: ‘As for me, I immediately stopped doing paintings and I’ve carried on with a series of pen drawings’

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‘If one is competent in one thing and understands one thing well, one gains at the same time insight into and knowledge of many other things into the bargain’. It’s said that it takes ten thousand hours to get really good. Do you think Vincent spent that many hours painting?

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