Albertina Museum in Vienna, an exhibition of works of famous painter Vincent van Gogh. One of the main ideas of this exhibition - to show the relationship between the pictorial and graphic works

September 5, Albertina Museum in Vienna (Albertina) An exhibition of works by Vincent van Gogh. It presents 150 works, among them not only beautiful works of masters, but also a lot of drafts and sketches, which give an idea of how born of his expressive paintings.

famous artist-post originally wanted to deal with drawings and illustrations. However, he subsequently came to be known precisely because of its revolutionary approach to working with color. His paintings are full of riot of colors, they are free from the principles of imitation of reality and academic standards.

After moving an artist from the Netherlands to Paris in 1886, as well as in the past two years of life, which he held in the south of France, Van Gogh's palette markedly vysvetlilas. Brownish hues gave way to a bright, shiny colors. These new color solutions are attributable to new perceptions of the world - the artist worked on the open air, sunny landscapes of Provence wrote.

By the time of his suicide in Auvers in 1890, he accumulated a large number of graphic works. Drawings and watercolors have a very strong influence on his painting style, and they in no way inferior oils master of arts performance. The initial desire for the picture, of course, impact on Van Gogh's technique: he often does the color of pre obmaknuv brush in the paint, or put expressive lines or points on the canvas directly from the tube.

The exhibition Albertina Museum presents 50 paintings and 100 of the most interesting drawings and watercolors, from more than 60 collections from around the world. The main objective of the exhibition - to demonstrate the interdependence of art and graphics, as well as a link between Van Gogh's new approach to color and its expressive style of the line.

The exhibition, prepared in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, is the largest presentation of the creative legacy of the artist after the jubilee exhibition in Amsterdam in 1990. In addition, it is the first exhibition of works by Van Gogh in Austria over the past half century. Paintings and drawings for the gallery given Albertina: Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam), the Metropolitan Museum (New York), Museum d'Orse (Paris), National Gallery of Art (Washington) and his Pushkin Museum. Alexander Pushkin (Moscow).

Source: artdaily.org