Van Gogh Interior Design

The phrase "interior design" promises more sophistication and planned perfection, perhaps, than the humble building interiors where Vincent Van Gogh felt most at home and to which he committed his fine artistic eye. This volume displays images of building interiors from weaver's studios to restaurants, cafés, hospitals, bordellos, billiard parlors, butcher shops and his own bedroom in a digitally restored state: their eye-popping brilliance and vitality are just as on the day Van Gogh finished them. Unless otherwise noted, they were originally oil paintings on canvas. (They depict individual interiors, complementing"Van Gogh Townscapes" with representations of conglomerate settlements and "Van Gogh Buildings" with individual building exteriors by the same publisher.) Vincent Van Gogh's short art career provided the world with unparalleled paintings from a troubled genius. It was to be an age of post-Impressionistic color, form and wonderment that the art world discovered only after the master's death. Bouts of anxiety, mental illness and epilepsy may have tormented him and brought about his suicide at the age of 37. But they may also have been catalysts for an emotionality and vibrance in his art that reveals a turbulent search for grace. Images include: INTERIOR DESIGNWeaver with Open Window and View to Nuenen Tower, 1884Weaver with Closed Window, 1884Potato Eaters, 1885Potato Eaters (Lithograph), 1885Peasant Woman Sitting at the Hearth, 1885Interior of Restaurant, 1887Butcher Shop Seen through Window, 1888Restaurant Carrel in Arles, 1888Café de Nuit, 1888Night Café in Arles, 1888Bordello, 1888Vincent's Bedroom in Arles I, 1888Vincent's Bedroom in Arles (Pen Drawing), 1888Vincent's Chair with Pipe, 1888Paul Gauguin's Chair (Empty Chair), 1888Dance Hall in Arles, 1888Dormitory of Hospital in Arles, 1889Vincent's Bedroom in Arles II, 1889Vincent's Bedroom in Arles III, 1889Lobby of St. Paul Hospital (Black Chalk & Gouache), 1889Corridor of St. Paul Hospital (Black Chalk & Gouache), 1889