He only sold one painting in his lifetime, but he had a tremendous influence on painters who followed him throughout the world, particularly in France and Germany. Vincent van Gogh is the starting ...

The sensual, light-dappled canvases of Henri Matisse and the violent shapes and strident colours of Ernst Kirchner – who knew the French and German avant-garde paintings of the early 20 th century ...

Last week, I was supposed to travel to Holland to pay my respects to the Girl with the Pearl Earring. This famous painting by Vermeer reclaimed its place of honor in the Mauritshuis Museum in Hague ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — I was joined at Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience by Karen Hjalmarson a docent at the Timken Museum, Art Historian, and lecturer on Vincent Van Gogh. We first walk thru his ...

In some ways, the subject of the exhibit "Vincent van Gogh and Expressionism" at the Van Gogh Museum is obvious. No one would ever deny the enormous influence the Dutch painter had on 20th-century art ...

When German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche declared in 1882 that “Gott ist tot” — God is dead — he could not have known that he was codifying a social and cultural transformation that a generation ...

Vincent van Gogh fits the stereotypical image of the tragic modern artist: the tortured genius and scruffy bohemian battling mental ill-health and lack of recognition from peers and a public who ...