Experts Talk about Van Gogh
During the single decade of his career as an artist between 1881 and his death in 1890, Van Gogh painted over 170 still lifes. The genre offered him a framework within which to experiment with painting techniques and possibilities. Why were still lifes the appropriate medium for Van Gogh’s struggles with the expressive power of paint?
International experts speak about Van Gogh’s development as an artist, his working methods, and the importance of still lifes in his work: Sjraar van Heugten (art historian and curator), Stefan Koldehoff (culture editor, art critic, and author), Eliza Rathbone (chief curator emerita, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC), Oliver Tostmann (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford), Marije Vellekoop (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam), Michael F. Zimmermann (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), and Michael Philipp (chief curator, Museum Barberini, and curator of the Van Gogh exhibition).
