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| Vincent Van Gogh Self 1887 Oil on canvas, 42 x 30 cm Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum |
"What a pleasure again see the city as much as I love the farmers and the countryside. " "The union of the ends gives me new ideas, details, the campaign as a whole and bustle here. I really needed it. "
These lines, penned by Vincent van Gogh in a letter addressed to his brother Theo in 1886, emphasize that intense feeling nature that has characterized the entire artistic career of the Dutch master.
8th October and until the 6th of February 2011, the halls of the Vittoriano Complex in Rome home, after twenty-two years of absence, the exhibition "Vincent Van Gogh's timeless-Country modern city. " The exhibition curated dall'emerita scholar Cornelia Homburg, the best expert of the Dutch, with the collaboration of an international scientific committee.
On display are over seventy diverse works including paintings and watercolors of the master, in addition, to further enrich the exhibition context and highlight the network of artistic and cultural exchanges between Van Gogh and artists of the "vanguard" in Paris, the organizers have shown about a forty masterpieces belonged to Millet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Gauguin and Seurat from the most important museums of the world and the most valuable private collections, for they add an 'interesting collection of original letters written by Vincent Van Gogh and from numerous private collections.
The exhibition presents an interesting and explanatory vision of the entire corpus of the great painter, the exhibition opens with a selection of early works of the Dutch period, in which we understand visually how Van Gogh worked in the study and reproduction of many recordings of past masters as Delacroix, Daubigny and Millet, from these and other works on canvas, he drew the dark monochrome painting characterized by the presence of poor peasants surrounded by dramatic social influences, in these many natural and poetic expanses, full of "straw-roofed houses (especially abundant in production of Saint-Rémy 1889-1890), the artist represents the concept of unchanging rural harsh reality, as in a continuous dialogue with those timeless paintings depicting the steady progress of the modern city.
The fascinating material expression of Van Gogh, focusing on a few inches of the paint surface is revealed in portraits and landscapes that is generated from an original interpretation "of what the artist wanted the ' observer would see "these seductive figurative constructions are the result not only of the mainstream and ingenious artistic concept, even the great thinker of refined culture, for example in a letter written to his brother Theo is clear that the painting of the Mountains at Saint Remy with dark cottage, was inspired by reading a passage in a novel.
The number of farmers heads on display, made between 1884 and the following year, emphasize the artist's desire to reap the most characteristic features of human physiognomy, these studies are the basis of first large painting with human figures portrayed in the famous painting The Potato Eaters of 1885, as subject of the harsh rural life in which reality is not idealized.
The works exhibited in the subsequent recount conducted coloristic Paris took place between 1886 and 1888, a period in which the study of the Dutch master is marked by renewal and the experiments made by both the influences of the Impressionists such as Pissarro and Cézzanne and both of those post-Impressionists like Gauguin and his contemporaries Seurat, all active nell'eccentrico Montmartre district, during which time the artist will "update" manifesting the clear use of color and expressive brushwork evident in the small pictures taken from minutes of brilliant pigments in other works he turns his interest in portrait of the "modern" described in the pair of portraits from Van Gogh Musem of Amsterdam.
Paris was not easy to live, so in 1888 the bizarre Vincent abandons forever the "Cabin Fever" the French capital to embark on a journey traveling in southern France to discover the much sought after peace of the province, the ' artist lived the last trips of his life between the town of Arles (1888-1889) and Saint-Remy (1889-1890) until, in a fit of delirium, he committed suicide in the village of Auvers-sur Oise in July 1890 .
At that time, the painter is inspired by the landscape and light of the south, he painted numerous fruit trees and wheat fields, designed and portrayed what was his world, made of cypress and olive trees, vibrant and sometimes winding, constructed quickly with vivid strokes simulating the idea of \u200b\u200bmovement. At the same time combined with fairly typical images of the modern city and rural life giving a sense of continuum continue to eternity.
In Sower the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the reinterpretation of the painting by Daumier The four ages of man we understand how the human figure is the balance between the past, represented by the campaign and the flowering trees in the background, and the future outlined in the smoke of the chimneys.
The complete vision of the itinerary exhibition dedicated to balance and coloristic pictorial conception of the great Dutch master, gives more comprehensive and empathy in the verses addressed to his brother Theo, clear and explicit philosophical thought the exhibition, in conclusion we can say: "We had really needed."
Giuseppe Arnesano
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