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The Bedroom (version 2)
Vincent van Gogh, Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 5/8 in
Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
The Art Institute of Chicago
Vincent Van Gogh is a prime example. The opposite of an
academically trained painter, his best, most colorful paintings
vibrate with a tonal range that is on a dif erent frequency than
most other art of the time, except that of his peers such as
Paul Gauguin and Émile Bernard. His inanimate chairs and
landscapes have an undulating life force. Rather than hide his
brushstrokes as academicians strived to do, he made them a
subject of the painting, along with the poor and everyday
people around him.
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