Van Gogh and nature
By: Richard Kendall, Sjraar van Heugten, Chris Stolwijk
Contributors: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Publisher: Clark Art Institute
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781935998235; 9780300210293
Subjects: Nature in art; Exhibitions
Description: "The celebrated painter Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) had a lifelong fascination with the natural world. He spent his youth in rural Holland, and the country's flat landscapes, trees, flowers, and birds would feature in his early art. After he moved to Paris, he encountered new radical thinking about art and humans' changing relationship with nature. Later, in Provence and Auvers, he discovered unfamiliar terrain, flora, and fauna that further influenced his artistic ideas and subject matter. Van Gogh's images of such diverse environments reflect not only his immediate surroundings but also the artist's evolving engagement with nature and art. Van Gogh and Nature is an eye-opening new catalogue that chronicles the artist's ongoing relationship with nature throughout his entire career. Among the featured works are Van Gogh's drawings and paintings, along with related materials that illuminate his reading, sources, and influences. Vivid color photography and explanatory texts based on new research by the authors clarify a central theme of Van Gogh's oeuvre. "--
Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Van Gogh and Nature, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, June 14-September 13, 2015."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: How nature speaks: Holland, 1881-85; title: Van Gogh, nature and the City: Paris, 1886-88; title: Nature and the south: Arles and Saint-Remy, 1888-90; title: The last months; Auvers-sur-Oise, 1890.