Tag: vincent
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Artist’s Painting Gets Mistaken For A Van Gogh, So She Creates Brilliant ‘Starry Night’ Series
One accident inspired painter Aja Kusick to create a wonderful series that mashes up pop culture elements with expressive van Gogh's style. Everything started when an education blog mistakenly shared Aja's painting of the Eiffel Tower as Van Gogh's. However, the Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889 and Van Gogh died in 1890, having spent…
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Vincent van Gogh’s Collection of 500 Japanese Prints Available to Download FOR FREE
Vincent van Gogh never went to Japan, but he did spend quite a bit of time in Arles, which he considered the Japan of France. What made him think of the place that way had to do entirely with aesthetics. The Netherlands-born painter had moved to Paris in 1886, but two years later he set…
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Shoe Brand Vans Releases a Van Gogh Fashion Line Inspired by the Iconic Artist
Skateboarding fashion brand Vans is teaming up with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam to launch a new fashion series inspired by the Dutch post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh. The limited-edition series will feature some of the artist’s iconic collections, including Skull (1887), Almond Blossom (1890), Sunflowers (1889) and van Gogh’s Self-Portrait as a Painter (1887-1888).…
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1,000+ Paintings & Drawings by Vincent van Gogh Available to Download FOR FREE
Every artist explores dimensions of space and place, orienting themselves and their works in the world, and orienting their audiences. Then there are artists like Vincent van Gogh, who make space and place a primary subject. In his early paintings of peasant homes and fields, his figures’ muscular shoulders and hands interact with sturdy walls…
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Art Institute of Chicago Recreates van Gogh’s Bedroom and Puts it on Airbnb
It’s one of the most familiar bedrooms in the world of art, if not the most well known bedroom full stop. “Bedroom in Arles” was painted by Vincent van Gogh in 1888. And for the first time in North America, all three version of this famous painting will be displayed in the same exhibition Chicago. To celebrate the…
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Workers Re-Create Famous Paintings Using Office Supplies
Following on from previous remakes of famous paintings we’ve featured (here and here), we couldn’t go passed bored office coworkers Chris Limbrick and Francesco Fragomeni whose remakes were completed using whatever they could find in their office! The project is called “Fools Do Art”, and they followed two simple rules – only use stuff found in the office, and any editing…
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Parade in the Netherlands Celebrates Vincent van Gogh
The Corso Zundert is a parade of giant floats which traverses the streets of Zundert in the Netherlands covered in thousands of dahlia flowers. This year, the floats were inspired by the works of the great Vincent van Gogh, who was born in Zundert 162 years ago. “In Zundert, in the South of the Netherlands, we are…
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Starry Night Painted in Miniature on a PUMPKIN SEED by Salavat Fidai
We’re lucky at artFido to be able to share the most amazingly talented art and artists from around the world with you. Every now and then, however, we discover something that truly blows our little minds. Russian miniature artist Salavat Fidai is one such example. Having mastered the art of pencil-head carving (see images below), Salavat…
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The Joker Starry Knight by Vartan Garnikyan [VIDEO]
All we can say is WOW! One of the most amazing works we’ve seen in a long time. Inspired by Heath Ledger’s “The Joker” character in “The Dark Knight”, and Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting “Starry Night”, Californian artist Vartan Garnikyan has created this amazing digital work, titled “The Starry Knight”. A signed print of this work in various sizes…
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Glowing Bicycle Path In Netherlands Inspired By Van Gogh’s Starry Night
Dutch artist and designer Daan Roosegaarde has created a beautiful and innovative glowing bike path that, when illuminated at night by glowing pebbles and LEDs, looks like Van Gogh’s famous Starry Night painting. The kilometer-long bike path, which was created using both glow-in-the-dark technology and solar-powered LEDs, is located in Brabant, the Dutch county where…