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Van Gogh Up Close with Joseph J. Rishel and Jennifer A. Thompson of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
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ryny 03/14/2012 01:11 AM Report
The Philadelphia Museum of Art was rather mixed up in what might be considered a blatant case of art theft. The documentary,"The Art of the Steal", explains their role in 'moving' the Barnes Collection--which contained a number of Van Goghs as it happens. I prefer the Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith interview that dear MR. Rose did on Van Gogh.
REMant 03/12/2012 11:51 AM Report
I spent some time in Japan and was myself taken with the woodblock prints. There is some affinity here with Hokusai who worked in the late 18th and early 19th c now that you mention it, not only in the views' perspective, but their unusualness. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/36_Views_of_Mount_Fuji_(Hokusai). Both Nature and the Orient were objects of fascination throughout the 19th c I suppose due to the wave of primitivism and "Romanticism" coming on the heels of the voyages of discovery and subsequent trade with the East. I think both can be traced back to the Renaissance tho they may have taken a somewhat less sentimental view. Museums crammed with cataloged curiosities began. Theories developed to support both design and its antithesis, while colleges early had professors of Sanskrit as well as other languages of antiquity.