The career path of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), one of the world's most recognizable artists, was anything but typical. Focusing on the early stages of Van Gogh's artistic development, "Becoming Van Gogh" illustrates the artist's efforts to master draftsmanship, understand the challenges of materia[...]
Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished within the arts in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era, painters and photographers composed competing visions of France as modern and industrialized o[...]