23.05.12

"Van Gogh: The Vital spark"

By Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith

Random Descendants; 953 pages; $40

Vincent van Gogh's autobiography is painted in understandable, powerful brush strokes, the supreme portrait of the artist. "As my drudgery is," he said, "so am I."

"Van Gogh: The Life," the intricate and panoramic biography by Steven Naifeh and Gregory Snowy Smith, is a provocative work about the volcanic man and his art.

Van Gogh's story has been romanticized and mythologized, markedly in fiction and on film. For decades, his image has been fashioned as much from Irving Stone's customary novel, "Lust for Life," and the Oscar-winning 1956 talkie starring Kirk Douglas, as it has been from scholars and historians.

As much as any artist, he's now part of all the rage culture. He's everywhere, from posters and address books to song and music, boob tube to Legos, Christmas ornaments to puppets -- including at least one with a detachable ear.

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by Alain Truong

Fungus, this vase is unusually rare and no other sample appears to have been published. The applied know-how of the craftsmen working during the Qianlong direction is patent in the ingenious claim of the well-testy copper pigment through the technic of stuffing outlines with a multitude of elfin dots, thus creating a prolific and dear come into force.

The uncommon decorative technique of this drama is found repeated on the assembly and neck of two Qianlong blue and ashen vases, but of ovoid raise with a extensive neck and lappet-shaped everted rim; see one sold at Christie's London, 11 , Hong Kong, 1968, pl. 10. The seal similarity of the draft and details such as the heads and spotted bodies of both the copper-red and cobalt decorated vases insinuate that they may have been decorated by the same keeping. Moreover, the peak-characteristic of slaying coupled with the depiction of nine dragons suggests that these pieces were created for the stylish use of the emperor.

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