Vincent's portraits : paintings and drawings by Van Gogh

Resource Information

The work Vincent's portraits : paintings and drawings by Van Gogh represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Manchester City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Vincent's portraits : paintings and drawings by Van Gogh

Title remainder

paintings and drawings by Van Gogh

Statement of responsibility

Ralph Skea

Creator

• Skea, Ralph

Contributor

• Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890

Author

• Skea, Ralph

Subject

• Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890
• Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890 -- Self-portraits
• Portrait painting, Dutch
• Portrait painting, Dutch -- 19th century
• 1800-1899
• Self-portraits, Dutch
• Self-portraits, Dutch -- 19th century
• Self-portraits
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• Self-portraits
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

Despite his posthumous fame as a painter of flowers, still lifes, gardens, landscapes, and city scenes, Vincent van Gogh himself believed that his portraits constituted his most important works. Like other post-Impressionists, Van Gogh sought to capture the essential character of his models by means of expressive color and brushwork. 'Vincent?s Portraits' reflects the strong visual impact with which the artist captured the energy of contemporary life.0In this dramatic set of portraits created during Van Gogh?s ten-year career, the reader sees his desire to record a number of themes, from the plight of the agricultural workers in his native Brabant and the destitution of prostitutes and their children in urban Europe to the lives of his cosmopolitan acquaintances in Paris, including café owners and art dealers. It was here that he began his remarkable sequence of self- portraits

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

ERASA

Dewey number

709.2

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

N6953.G63

LC item number

S54 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography