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Van Gogh's Patience Escalier: Peasant à la Japonaise

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Van Gogh's Patience Escalier: Peasant à la Japonaise

The Frick Collection

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Partner:: Frick Collection
Location:: The Frick Collection
New York, NY
Event Date:: 01.16.13
Speaker:: Cornelia Homburg
Tags:: artists; painting; art history

Summary: This lecture will discuss van Gogh's Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier) in the context of these interests, which played such a crucial role in the painter's efforts to define himself as a member of the avant-garde. When Vincent van Gogh moved from Paris to the South of France in 1888, the rural environs inspired him to revisit some of the central themes of his Dutch years, such as the changing seasons and the "labors of the fields." At the same time, his work was greatly influenced by his admiration for Japanese art and culture, coupled with his ambition to create distinctly modern pictures.

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Cornelia Homburg

Cornelia Homburg received her M.A. in art history from the University of Chicago and her Ph.D from the University of Amsterdam. After beginning her career at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, she became curator first at the museum of Washington University in St. Louis, and then at the Saint Louis Art Museum. She left her position as chief curator of the Saint Louis Art Museum in 2003 to work as an independent art historian and live in France. Homburg curated, among others, the exhibitions Max Beckmann and Paris, Vincent van Gogh and the Painters of the Petit Boulevard, Vincent van Gogh: Timeless Country - Modern City and Van Gogh: Up Close. She is currently working on several new projects, including an exhibition on the Neo-Impressionists' reaction to the rise of Symbolism.

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51 min 56 sec

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01.: Introduction

03 min 29 sec

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02.: Van Gogh's Portrait Philosophy

03 min 33 sec

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03.: Vieux Paysan: Patience Escalier: The Quintessential Peasant

02 min 10 sec

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04.: Becoming a Peasant Painter

05 min 36 sec

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05.: Japanese Influence

05 min 38 sec

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06.: Landscape Painting

05 min 25 sec

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07.: Perception of Japan

07 min 13 sec

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08.: Finding a Modern Expression

06 min 08 sec

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09.: Use of Color and Heat in Peasant Paintings

05 min 53 sec

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10.: La Mousme Japanese Interpretation

02 min 30 sec

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11.: Achieving a Modern Expression of an Age Old Subject

04 min 22 sec

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The Influence of Japanese Art on Van Gogh

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Art historian and curator Cornelia Homburg describes the influence that japanese wood-block prints had on the portraiture and landscape work of Van Gogh and other post-impressionists.
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51 min 56 sec

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