Van Gogh, Drawn Out; On View at the Met: A Very Fine Line Between Concept and Canvas

From: The Washington Post | Date: October 24, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Toward the end of the 19th century, in France, lots of sophisticated, citified artists were looking outside their own culture for inspiration. They explored Japanese prints, crude medieval woodcuts and the "primitive" arts of Brittany and other remote corners of their world. They even started noticing the works of untrained outsider artists such as Henri Rousseau.

Vincent van Gogh, by the time he was making his mature work, was as sophisticated a radical as any of his peers. With all the powerful van Goghs we've seen in recent years, it's become almost routine to point out that he wasn't the ...

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