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Van Gogh and Britain, Tate Britain
CHRISTINE LINDEY recommends an exhibition revealing the profound sense of humanity in the works by the great painter
Vincent van Gogh - Starry Night, 1888 and Self-portrait, 1887.
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GLENN FOSBRAEY recommends a biography worth reading for both existing George Michael fans and those yet to be converted
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JAMES WALSH recommends an exceptional documentary about the experience of Western doctors in Gaza
IN THE only article about Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) published in his lifetime, the Symbolist poet Albert Aurier characterised him — in an otherwise complimentary text — as a crazed genius.
This commonly held perception was further dramatised and popularised by the 1956 Hollywood film Lust for Life, which had Van Gogh chopping off his own ear. In fact, the artist only sliced off a sliver during one of his intermittent bouts of mental illness, during which he did not paint, and which only plagued him in the last two years of his short life.
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