# Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved - Hardcover

by **Steven Naifeh** (Author)

**The compelling story of how Vincent van Gogh developed his audacious, iconic style by immersing himself in the work of others, featuring hundreds of paintings by Van Gogh as well as the artists who inspired him--from the _New York Times_ bestselling co-author of _Van Gogh: The Life_**

**"Important . . . inspires us to look at Van Gogh and his art afresh."--Dr. Chris Stolwijk, general director, RKD-Netherlands Institute for Art History**

Vincent van Gogh's paintings look utterly unique--his vivid palette and boldly interpretive portraits are unmistakably his. Yet however revolutionary his style may have been, it was actually built on a strong foundation of paintings by other artists, both his contemporaries and those who came before him.

Now, drawing on Van Gogh's own thoughtful and often profound comments about the painters he venerated, Steven Naifeh gives a gripping account of the artist's deep engagement with their work. We see Van Gogh's gradual discovery of the subjects he would make famous, from wheat fields to sunflowers. We watch him experimenting with the loose brushwork and bright colors used by Édouard Manet, studying the Pointillist dots used by Georges Seurat, and emulating the powerful depictions of the peasant farmers painted by Jean-François Millet, all vividly illustrated in nearly three hundred full-color images of works by Van Gogh and a variety of other major artists, including Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, positioned side by side.

Thanks to the vast correspondence from Van Gogh to his beloved brother, Theo, Naifeh, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is able to reconstruct Van Gogh's artistic world from within. Observed in eloquent prose that is as compelling as it is authoritative, _Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved_ enables us to share the artist's journey as he created his own daring, influential, and widely beloved body of work.

### Author Biography

A graduate of Harvard Law School, **Steven Naifeh** studied art history at Princeton and Harvard's Fogg Art Museum. Together with his late husband and co-author Gregory White Smith, he is the author of five _New York Times_ bestsellers, including _Van Gogh: The Life_. Their biography _Jackson Pollock: An American Saga_ won the Pulitzer Prize and inspired the Academy Award-winning film _Pollock_ as well as John Updike's novel _Seek My Face_. Naifeh, also an artist whose works are included in numerous museum collections, has been profiled in _The New Yorker, The New York Times,_ and _USA Today_ and has appeared twice on _60 Minutes._ He lives in South Carolina.

**Number of Pages:** 448

**Dimensions:** 1.6 x 10.1 x 8.9 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** November 02, 2021

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