Aussie Van Gogh
Does any of Coxsoft Art's discerning readers think this portrait looks remotely like a work by Vincent Van Gogh? Of course you don't. But the Aussie's did! It sounds like a gem from Sir Les Patterson, the Australian Cultural Attaché. This work is obviously far too accomplished to be that of Van Gogh, but its impercipient attribution would have continued if the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, hadn't lent the painting to the Dean Gallery in Edinburgh. Eagle-eyed Sunday Times art critic Frank Whitford pounced on it and gave his newspaper a nice little scoop. "It is clear to me it isn’t a Van Gogh," he said. "It lacks the slightly crazy intensity, that obsessive engagement with a subject that you can see in other works." And it's too damned good! Ironically, it's now worth peanuts.
posted by Unknown @ 8.8.06
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G'Day cobber!
Vincent Van Gogh was an Aussie, but I don't expect you pommie poofs to know that.
This piece is one of his early works and is a portrait of Roy Wood of Wizzard [himself an Aussie and 345 years old]. We Aussies are a healthy lot. It's the sunshine, XXXX, beech barbies and beating you lot a cricket that keeps us going.
Note the "slightly crazy intensity, and obsessive engagement" in the eyes and cheekbones coupled with the unkempt hair and beard. This is of course before our Vincent sold out to Pommie Ponsification and produced ghoulish gladdies on canvas.
Neither did he cut off his ear. He invented the mobile phone and merely had a Mr Spock earpiece fitted. Unfortunately there was nobody to talk to at the time.
I thought this one would tickle your fancy, cobber. Don't forget to check your trash can; there's an e-mail coming your way. (I don't trust your spam filter.)
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