{"id":11663,"date":"2022-10-10T15:05:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T13:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/?p=11663"},"modified":"2022-10-10T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:49:00","slug":"van-gogh-in-america-detroit-welcomes-the-dutch-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/en\/van-gogh-in-america-detroit-welcomes-the-dutch-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"“Van Gogh in America”: Detroit welcomes the Dutch artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) has been hosting one of the largest Van Gogh exhibitions of all time since October 2.<\/p>\n

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Van Gogh never saw America, but America did. And this new event, “Van Gogh in America<\/strong>,” gives the country a new opportunity to (re)discover this artist, as never before. After the Moma in 1935, this is the second time the country has had such a presentation of the Dutch painter’s works.<\/p>\n

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The exhibition reveals, among other things, the cultural rise of Van Gogh in the United States<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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In 1922, the Detroit Institute of Arts<\/strong> became the first American museum to acquire a painting by the artist. At the time, Dutch Post-Impressionism was little known in the Americas, and the institution paid only 4 200 dollars (equivalent to about 75 000 dollars<\/strong> today) for a self-portrait. Today, paintings by the Dutch master go for tens of millions of dollars…<\/p>\n

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Exactly one century later, the anniversary of this purchase has given rise to a superb exhibition in Detroit.<\/p>\n

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A grandiose exhibition<\/h2>\n

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“Van Gogh in America” presents 74 paintings and drawings, including five that already belong to the DIA<\/strong>. The rest were borrowed from numerous museums and private collections around the world. A rather complicated process in some cases, as the owners of these works of art find it difficult to part with their artistic “jewel” even for a few months.<\/p>\n

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“When visitors come to museums, the first thing they want to see is their van Gogh<\/em>,” explains DIA director Salvador Salort-Pons. “This is one of the largest exhibitions organized by a museum that is not the Van Gogh Museum<\/em>“.<\/p>\n

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This exhibition aims to make visitors discover the evolution of Van Gogh’s style, through paintings, drawings and lithographs, self-portraits, still lifes, landscapes and other portraits…<\/p>\n

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The visit begins with Berceuse<\/em>, an 1889 painting on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, depicting a woman in a chair, in yellow and green tones.<\/p>\n

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In addition to some of Van Gogh’s most famous works such as Self-Portrait<\/em> from 1887, others are rarer and less well known to the general public. Like The Wounded Veteran<\/em>, a dark and disconcerting black and white lithograph that depicts an old man with a blindfold over his eye, looking barely alive.<\/p>\n

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The exhibition’s curator, Jill Shaw hopes the collection will deliver to people another Van Gogh, beyond the immortalized image of the earless, tortured-minded painter.<\/p>\n

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“His painting didn’t come from his mental health<\/em>,” she says. “He was methodical and thoughtful<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

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Read also >CAMILLE FOURNET PRESENTS THE 7TH EDITION OF EQUINOXES<\/a><\/p>\n

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Featured photo : \u00a9 Wikipedia \/ Detroit Institute of Arts<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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