Tracing Vincent - Articles

Vincent van Gogh didn’t like the winter at all. When Vincent left Paris in February 1888 he wanted to move to a quieter and more sunny place. So he went to Arles. To his big surprise, he saw a blanket of snow covering the landscape when he arrived.

Vincent really had hoped for a warmer climate in order to be able to keep on painting outside in the fields, which he loved so much. In a letter to their mother his brother Theo wrote:

The three-month Van Gogh exhibition at the Albertina Museum in Vienna has attracted well over half-a-million visitors. This is a record number of visitors in 13 years for the Austrian Museum.

The museum welcomed more than 6,000 visitors a day, which makes the show the 10th most popular exhibition in the world.

The best known and most reproduced painting by Vincent van Gogh, Starry Night, has now been turned into a Counterstrike map. Counterstrike is a game, and a specific part is based on Vincent’s work, with the painting Starry Night in the leading role.

While a player chases his enemies as a soldier they will see several paintings by Van Gogh. Two of the works in the game are: Skull with the Burning Cigarette and a portrait of Doctor Gachet.

This week Van Gogh’s painting of the week is: Marguerite Gachet at the Piano.

Van Gogh's colorfull paintings are the main subject of a new IMAX film that will be released in theaters early 2009.

Van Gogh: Brush With Genius is a journey through the 9-year period of the artist's career during which he painted more than 900 paintings. From the dazzling yellow of his famous cornfields to the deep blue of his famous night sky, viewers are able to rediscover the source of Van Gogh’s works.