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"As a young amateur painter and future art school dropout, I frequently
found myself haunted by the faces of two artists, that famously odd couple
from my favorite art history novelization—and Kirk Douglas role and Iggy Pop
song—
Lust for Life. Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, above and below
respectively, the tormented Dutch fanatic and burly French bully—how, I
still wonder, could such a pair have ever co-existed, however briefly? How
could such beautifully skewed visions of life have existed at all?
Van Gogh and Gauguin’s several self-portraits still inspire wonder. My
younger self had the luxury of seeing these particular two up close and
in person at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC: Van Gogh’s
gaunt and piercing visage, Gauguin’s sneering self-parody.
Now, thanks to the wonders of digital technology, my older self, and
yours, can view and download high-resolution photos of both paintings,
and over 60,000 more from the museum’s vast holdings, through NGA Images, “a
repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery
of Art.”"
Via Susan ****
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics