It is the culmination of van Gogh’s early work, which began in 1880, when, at 27, he committed to being a painter after working in an uncle’s art gallery in London and then trying to make it as a missionary. His trajectory begins, in terms of masterpieces, with the dark interior of the Van Gogh Museum’s “Potato Eaters,” which is being shown in New York for the first time in 50 years. While van Gogh’s journey through the night could have been traced with many other paintings, the collaborating museums have an advantage. And it harbored some of his other subjects: urban dwellers relaxing in dance halls and lost souls drinking and drowsing in cafes. The night also brought relief to the daily labors of peasants, whom van Gogh admired for their closeness to the earth and often painted. They challenged his visual perception, stirred his imagination, expanded his palette and kept him close to nature’s cycles and mysteries. What we see here is an artist with no time to lose, who gained crucial inspiration and information from the dusk, the twilight hours and the night with their constantly changing moons and relatively stable stars followed by the dawn’s first glimmers. In Western art before him, only the semi-Western mosaics of Ravenna achieved such complete articulation.Īlso decidedly unblockbusterish is the show’s almost complete inattention to van Gogh’s mental instability, his disastrous friendship with Paul Gauguin or his shorn ear. He egged on their clashes with exaggerated daubs of paint, bringing backgrounds forward and giving each inch of canvas its own sense of life. Unable to see clearly, he painted what he saw, ultimately pitting his colors against one another as if they were antagonists in a visual drama. Van Gogh accepted the night as a distorting condition, almost the way later modernists like Marcel Duchamp and Jean Arp would use chance to experiment and to break habits. Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night, presenting paintings, drawings and letters by the artist pertaining to the night (above, a detail of The Stevedores in Arles, from 1888), is at the Modern through Jan. Organized with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, this show has been overseen by Joachim Pissarro, adjunct curator in the Modern’s department of painting and sculpture and a professor of art history at Hunter College Sjraar van Heugten, head of collections at the Van Gogh Museum and Jennifer Field, curatorial assistant in painting and sculpture at the Modern. The final gallery features a dense display of books that he read, most open to poems about the night. Instead of the usual are-we-done-yet marathon followed with ordeal by gift shop, it quietly displays 23 paintings, 9 drawings and several letters by van Gogh in six intimate galleries. Small and quirky, it is an anti-blockbuster. On paper, at least, “Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night” reads like an obvious play for big box office and increased membership.īut this exhibition largely dodges such charges. This is my first quick review by the way.just a little glimpse, summary, and opinion.Devoting an exhibition to Vincent van Gogh, among the world’s most beloved artists, may not seem like much of a reach for the Museum of Modern Art. The music was actually decent too Goblin did some of it. It's worth at least one watch if you can't find anything you haven't seen yet and if you love Dario Argento's work! You will probably forget it though. As an overall package it was a watchable film but not a great film in any way. I won't get into details because I don't want to ruin anything for you. I did enjoy the twists at the end though and it reminded me of argento's other great giallo movies. So there's a lot of back and forth between good quality and bad quality with just about everything. Max van sidow puts on a good performance and so do a few others but in whole the rest suck. There was only one really memorable and gory one in the whole movie but the rest didn't even show anything! They cut away and you don't even know how they died or what killed them, which makes the kills very lame and tame! There are some beautiful actresses for eye candy to look at. The most disappointing part besides all that was the kills. Some parts really drag on and some of the performances are very dull and terribly dubbed over! I'll keep this spoiler free. I'm a huge Italian horror fan, giallo fan, Argento fan, and horror fan in general. I just finished watching this for the first time in 2020 on vhs lol! I thought it had some good elements for sure.
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