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Why Did Vincent van Gogh Paint 26 Portraits of a Postman and His Family While Staying in the South of France?
In the late 1880s, Vincent van Gogh spent two years in southern France. Though the period was famously tumultuous for the ...
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The hidden science swirling in ‘The Starry Night’
The famous painting from Dutch post-impressionist ... He broke the square down into three color channels for analysis. He found that Van Gogh’s swirls and vortexes followed the statistical ...
Van Gogh or Faux? Weeding Out Fakes Is Starting to Take a Toll.
Attributing a work to the artist generally requires authentication by the Van Gogh Museum, but lawsuits and an influx of ...
The Incredible LEGO Version of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night Gets a Rare Amazon Discount
The Starry Night is van Gogh's most famous work, painted in 1889, and it beautifully translates into a great LEGO set thanks ...
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Someone Bought This Painting at a Garage Sale for $50. Experts Say It’s a Lost van Gogh Worth $15 Million
As van Gogh wrote in a letter to his brother Theo, he was “not copying pure and simple” but rather “translating into another language, the one of colors ... the painting, and they recently ...
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Is That Painting a Lost Masterpiece or a Fraud? Let’s Ask AI
Back in 2016, an oil painting ... authentic Van Gogh artworks and 1,785 inauthentic images (to teach it what not to be fooled by). The program can analyze brushstroke patterns, color composition ...