On exhibit: "Van Gogh in America"

One hundred years ago the Detroit Institute of Arts became the first museum in the U.S. to buy a work by Vincent Van Gogh, the Dutch Post-Impressionist who died in 1890. Now, the DIA honors the centenary of that landmark acquisition by presenting "Van Gogh in America," featuring 74 works from around the world, which explores America's introduction to the artist. Correspondent Rita Braver reports.
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[@janedoe1146]

Seems to me all of Van Gogh's paintings are 'alive', they have such vibrant energy.

[@margo3367]

I saw a Van Gogh exhibit in L.A. years ago. The brush strokes are amazing. You have to see it in person.

[@007Julie]

Years ago I also saw a Van Gogh exhibit in Chicago and yes, his brushstrokes are what make his paintings so special and moving. His paintings are almost 3D, the amount of energy and paint he put on each canvas represents his passion towards his art. A true master of his craft.

[@chrisfinch8637]

@@007Julie I’ve always thought of visiting that exhibit, but became swamped with work and saving money, that I couldn’t do it. Wherever it is next, or whenever I get a chance to go to a museum again, I’ll definetly come back to revisiting my fond artistic memories.

[@katewade9992]

I saw Van Gogh, et al, in NYC at the Metropolitan Museum in 80s. An impressionist exhibition. My favorite is the bridge over the river... When you stand in front of it, a mere few feet away, the water is moving! there's a current... Astonishing. Painting is alive.

[@margo3367]

@@katewade9992 I loved the painting of the sailboat pulled up on shore. The woods and the textures were amazing. The self-portraits were very cool too. To be standing in a room, surrounded by Van Gogh’s was somewhat breathtaking.

[@RadMad789]

It was weird to say that he “overcame adversity”. This was someone who experienced great suffering, especially toward the end. However, he still saw so much beauty in the world.

[@michaeld.williamsiii9026]

So very well said indeed…🥺💚🖼

[@courtneymichelle2588]

❤ That’s a great point! I have loved this artist since I learned a lot about him through my research and deep dive into his life and artistry. I worked on a cultural assignment for my French IV AP class my senior year in high school, it was considered a college credit course taken in high school. So, everything we did was spoken, written, and presented in French only. That senior project was a blessing because I learned so much awesome things about Van Gogh. It’s great to see his creativity to be honored in such a great manner!

[@paulwheeler6609]

The Starry Harbor painting is beyond most. You can't do much more with paint than that. However, he didn't pick himself up by his bootstraps and survive. He suffered and died.

[@heidihall4591]

I’ve been to this exhibit at the DIA and it is excellent. Highly recommend

[@mililaniman]

Van Gogh had a very short life, but he left an indelible artistic legacy.

[@chrisfinch8637]

Many artists have had deep moments within themselves, but still managed to leave behind a wonderful and memorable legacy, to be looked upon, for years to come.

[@IntriguedLioness]

It sounds cliche now but for a very long period I was obsessed with STARRY NIGHT. Even dabbing a little paint on a few canvases to try to emulate what I thought the stars must sound like, what they must emit as we, not they, changed the view as we look at the skies. Like many of Van Gogh's work I saw movement in not only the brush but the canvas after he applied his art.. pure genius.

[@janedoe1146]

i agree, it took me a bit but one day his work just clicked and there was so much movement, so much energy that i hadn't seen before.

[@bellautopia818]

I just got a pair of socks with that image, I put them on, and felt a little pokey I thought it was part of the plastic because they were new.. figured I would tough it out.. went shopping, and on my way back it got worse, way worse.... So I thought to myself as soon as I get home I'll find that little piece of plastic... but..Why does it hurt this much?.. 2 minutes later a bee came out from under the car seat... Finally got it out the window got home took off my socks and realized I had stepped on not only a Staples somehow before I put my shoes on but somehow while I was out and about a bee had stung me as well... ....... IN THE EXACT SAME SPOT ON MY FOOT!!!!!! 🤔🤯🧠💨 ... So I got the tweezers and put them both out and now I have three little holes right next to each other,,, what are the odds of that? Silly starry night sock's story, Oh, also lived in a van called go Van Gogh! Meow 💜

[@bellautopia818]

@@Lori88 thanks for letting me bend your ear m'lady 🤗 I'm glad you got that last part, they say laughter is the best medicine and if anybody actually decided to put up with me long enough to get to the end of my silly story I might as well give them a good dose out of appreciation... Stay true and stay you, meow 💜💜💜💜

[@bellautopia818]

@@Lori88 that's really neat... Is that an email address? Or your KZbin channel? I'm totally from this Stone age but thank you I have my homework cut out for me I love it.... Oh!!... The possibilities! 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜👍🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🧠🧠🙏🙏🙏👍😉😊☺️🤗😘💋🤌💥💜💜💜💜💜💜🧸🧸🧸🧸

[@anntrope491]

♡ ☆ ♡ Van Gogh's work is wonderful , magical, & inspiring...he was a genius with color, movement, & his application of paint. Just sad he didn't get recognition for his amazing art when he was alive. I watched a theory about the loss of his ear which made more sense than self mutilation...That he, & his close friend, & mentor Gougan were drinking, got into an argument, & Gougan cut his ear off with a sword...Gougan being an expert swordsman...this theory clicked with me.♡☆♡ BLESSINGS ON VINCENT VAN GOGH...MAY HIS SPIRIT BE AT PEACE...KNOWING THAT HE WAS A MOST SUCCESSFUL ARTIST, & REVERED FOR HIS WORKS...♡☆♡

[@steveconn]

Detroit sounds a little too cold right now from my freezing house, but love Van Gogh. Detroit also has a grear Diego Rivera mural, and Jack White!

[@nenaj8053]

There is a story that Van Gogh was actually killed by a teenager - who would constantly torment him - but when asked what going on - Van Gogh covered for him went home and died of sepsis. I went to see his interactive show last year - it was amazing. If there is one in a city near you - I recommend going. So peaceful.

[@manbtm1]

This exhibit is an absolutely outstanding exhibit, one of the best I have ever seen, I’m a big Van Gogh fan as it is, but this was off the charts, plus the Detroit Institute of arts is an absolutely wonderful art museum, a true gem for Detroit, the surrounding area is really quite cool to now, they have done a fabulous job in renovating their Midtown and downtown areas. That area of the city is really looking nice anymore.

[@barrellracer]

"...Van Gogh is the finest painter of them all. Certainly the most popular great painter of all time. The most beloved. His command of color, the most magnificent. He transformed the pain of his tormented life into ecstatic beauty. Pain is easy to portray but to use your passion and pain to portray the ecstasy and joy and magnificence of our world. No one had ever done it before. Perhaps no one ever will again. To my mind, that strange wild man who roamed the fields of Provence, was not only the world’s greatest artist but also one of the greatest men who ever lived..." (Dr. Black - Vincent & The Doctor)

[@cartoonsandcannabis]

I went on pilgrimage to the Van Gogh Museum it was sublime

[@richardtaylor8595]

The masters are amazing. I love seeing these paintings. My fear is with all the tech out there, we are losing the true art form. I hate what so called new tech has done to true art and music. I am so glad I am old because it is breaking my heart with what I see and hear nowadays.

[@dlite6999]

When I was 14 I picked up the large art book on the coffee table and I was hooked on great artist s Give one to someone you love

[@marsspacex6065]

Van Gogh makes you feel art 🖼 😢. My favourite artist.

[@willhamilton4838]

For the record there are 11, thats eleven Van Gogh paintings at the Pasadena museum of art in Pasadena California, I know cause I saw them there in person and they are breathtakingly beautiful 😍

[@deannealbrecht774]

He's definitely my favorite. His brushstrokes are something I never get tired of studying.

[@kathleentyson6727]

I had the extreme pleasure of seeing some of Van Gogh’s art work several years in Los Angeles ,it was positively captivating.

[@stormhawk3319]

I think if Van Gogh had made the trip to America, he’d have fallen in love with the landscapes around him, painted even more incredible paintings, the Americans would have embraced him unlike the French and his own nationality who scorned him for nearly the entirety of his painting career he’d have been huge in his lifetime.

[@stevenikitas8170]

The Detroit Museum paid $4,200 for the small self-portrait. I watch many art auctions online and I calculate that that painting would sell for $80 million, or more, today. A Van Gogh landscape called "Verger avec cyprès" (Orchard with Cypresses) fetched $117 million in a November 2022 auction at Christie's in New York.

[@azulgaia7782]

Americans relate to the pain behind the bright colors in Van Gogh. They are not just pretty pictures, but have the depth of human emotion. Never has art so shockingly expressed the struggle between mental illness and beauty.

[@andrearenee7845]

Very impressive gallery display. Goes to show that time will tell.

[@erickaldana1186]

His work is so breath taking in so many ways I love art it just opens you up to such beautiful things.

[@nancydemoss2945]

I love Van Gogh's art! I wish I could see this exhibit but I'm too far away. The color's Vincent used and his technique has always fascinated me.

[@audreydaleski1067]

I am so close living in MI.

[@oscarrada7475]

That was a very good showcase and interview. Left me feeling Inspired ✨

[@ingridllinas5612]

Excelent comments. To be reviewed in detail. Thanks.

[@audreydaleski1067]

Undoubtedly.

[@audreydaleski1067]

I love His paintings.

[@DavidKerley]

Fascinating artist.

[@audreydaleski1067]

Love the olive trees, his shoes, etc, the Sower.

[@j2fly1]

Vincent made his fame 🖼

[@christophermyers3758]

One of my highlights visiting NYC, was going to the MOMA and seeing Van Gogh's "Starry Night" painting! Incredible colors and passion... There must have been about 25-30 people gathered in front, drawn to it. Would love to see this exhibit, but unfortunately not able to go to Detroit.

[@525Lines]

I know Monet was in Chicago with his art at one point. I know a Chicago private club that has a Monet along with a monet signed receipt!

[@audreydaleski1067]

Such a nice piece!

[@brucewilson1958]

He taught us how to use paint.

[@bill9540]

Nice play on the Dr. Who KZbin segment.

[@karolfeld]

I love Van Gogh's art! I need to know the name of that piece of music, I love it too! Cannot remember the Composer and Name, anyone? Thanks!

[@karolfeld]

FOUND IT! Arabesque No. 1 by Debussy. ❤

[@EvesRevenge]

Mom!!! THIS is the exhibit I told you about, and showed you the invitation to to the DIA (detroit) fpr this exclusive visit... Cool eh? Ill have to see if I kept the announcement...So the one in Grand Rapids, is called The Vsn Gogh was the Van Gogh emersive exhibit that is traveling.... Hi sorry it's so late...but, if you give yourself that hour of daylight savings time we get ... just a wee bit late...lol...it's been a tough day....but I cintinue to strip my life of unnecessary suffering..., as Brand so succinctly and cleverly calls it... struggling with maintaining presence, like manic I'd guess, is wish I had one sense or abiliity, and then I could balance it...

[@boomerang8909]

Wished they played Don McLean's song.

[@johnfd0210]

I was just thinking of that as I was looking through the comments.

[@francisbaraaniv7226]

Hello! Whose music did you use? Which artist? Thanks!

[@LDVTennis]

Ugh, why the attempt to co-opt Van Gogh's work to support the "bootstraps" narrative? ... Van Gogh had a lot of support, including financial support from his brother. He actively sought support from his fellow artists. For instance, he sought to form a sort of artist commune in Arles. Van Gogh was not some angry American loner, bent on revenge.

[@jeanniereed]

please go to the Barnes in Philadelphia and do MODIGLIANI IN AMERICA

[@bellautopia818]

Hold the phone?.. I was told it's in salt lake City Utah right now,¿??... Meow? 🤔🤯🧠💨 I just got a pair of socks with that image, I put them on, and felt a little pokey I thought it was part of the plastic because they were new.. figured I would tough it out.. went shopping, and on my way back it got worse, way worse.... So I thought to myself as soon as I get home I'll find that little piece of plastic... but..Why does it hurt this much?.. 2 minutes later a bee came out from under the car seat... Finally got it out the window got home took off my socks and realized I had stepped on not only a Staples somehow before I put my shoes on but somehow while I was out and about a bee had stung me as well... ....... IN THE EXACT SAME SPOT ON MY FOOT!!!!!! 🤔🤯🧠💨🌌🧦🪡🐝 ... So I got the tweezers and put them both out and now I have three little holes right next to each other,,, what are the odds of that? Silly starry night sock's story, Oh, also lived in a van called go Van Gogh! Meow 💜

[@andrenewcomb3708]

The bedroom looks like a 'home arrest'.

[@kukluxken6118]

Why does the cork age, but not the bottle?

[@j2fly1]

His lust is true!

[@philiphorner31]

It's like pictures at the county dump.

[@annsmith7207]

I disagree. VanGogh’s later works including Starry Night are clear depictions of his plunging into swirling madness - a mental health crisis that finally took him. That is not in anyway stated to judge, belittle or mock Van Gogh’s artistry. It is stated to explain his internal vulnerability that he outwardly expressed through his art. Art therapists would see that right away. He was mentally tortured and ultimately took his life. Please respect what is going on with the people around you!

[@chrisfinch8637]

I never knew Starry Night or any of his portraits had that deeper meaning. Most of the time, when I see paintings, I’m always fascinated by the artwork and how much work was put into them, and not paying close attention to why they were painted, or the meanings (most of which are mysterious) behind them. That’s a pretty deep theory, which needs more attention, coming from you, since a lot of artists back then, and today, really need our respect and our gratitude, for whatever art is shown.

[@deborahpugh7120]

Not necessarily 'a clear depiction of plunging into swirling madness'. Some theorize that Van Gogh's eyesight was increasingly affected by nearsightedness, cataracts, perhaps. Those swirls are halos that, with an ocular condition, he would indeed see. We will never know if he took his own life but a suicide typically doesn't shoot themself in the abdomen.

[@louhawk559]

U haven't experienced masterpieces by LOUHAWK yet....

[@gabef4377]

whats the name of the classical song at the very end?

[@richiejohnson]

Claire de Lune by Debussy 👌 ❤

[@gabef4377]

@@richiejohnson thank you!

[@samiaint8043]

Timeline - World History Documentary: Is Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' A Fake? / The Fake Van Gogh's / Timeline

[@andiolaim]

Why do Americans pronounce his last name like that?

[@dougcargill6730]

You’re so right.

[@dod2304]

because they have no idea how Dutch is pronounced? I occasionally hear some American attempt to pronounce it correctly, and though it's usually still not exactly right, I have to give them credit for trying. It usually starts with some Art critic mispronouncing their name, then everyone thinks, "Oh! They're educated and erudite, they MUST know the correct pronunciation." And, so, it becomes the "correct" pronunciation. I've heard so many artists and designers names butchered over the years.

[@tthomas184]

@@dod2304 I wouldn't blame art critics. We americanize everything.

[@wendyzollinger3644]

@@dod2304 As a child, (I am now 84) I attended the Avery Coonley School in Downers Grove, IL, a suburb of Chicago. One of the parents was a director at the Art Institute of Chicago. At a parent/teacher meeting he said he was bringing Vincent W. Van Gogh and his wife to visit, our well-known, progressive School. He asked the parents/teachers if they knew a good restaurant, open on Mondays, where he could take the Van Goghs. No one did. So my mother said they could come to our house for lunch. Which they did! So my mother and some other mothers prepared a meal for about 12 or so. (No children, darn it!!)At My mother said the Van Goghs were charming, and invited her to bring our family to Amsterdam to visit them. When Vincent W. was at the school I got to ask him a question. It was how do you pronounce your name in Dutch.? I'll never forget it! This all happened in 1949, at the time of the big Van Gogh exhibition at the Art Institute.

[@kukluxken6118]

Have you ever taken a photograph 📲 of?

[@Seekthetruth3000]

Keep the crazy environmentalists away from these works of art.

[@tthomas184]

As an environmentalist, I agree .

[@CarriUSA]

And now we find out some of the paintings were stolen !

[@maxlinder5262]

Much .Much ... to Short......

[@lisamcdonald1820]

You needed one more much 🙃🙃🙃

[@Arkstromater]

I sure hope nobody throws soup at it and then glues themselves to the wall.

[@chrisfinch8637]

I think it would’ve been fine, if it was Andy Warhol’s Tomato Soup portrait.

[@grahamsmith5396]

they'll probably just order an pallet of baby formula and then dump it all on the street to protest about poverty and supply chain problems.

[@rageguy311]

Cut off his ear? More like had a cut on his ear.

[@grahamsmith5396]

will Americans be throwing soup on the Van Gogh paintings like those Britishers did?

[@paullangland6877]

I hope not

[@kukluxken6118]

Was it really about a picture a parent painted of a child 🎉the rea l estate of a life long manipulation of 😢the friend result and the anticipation

[@evilish888]

Hey, where did your van go? Oh, my buddy borrowed it for the day