Van Gogh a Master Ahead of His Time

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Visconti's latest launch draw's inspiration from Van Gogh's thought-provoking painting, “The Novel Reader.” 

First, some very interesting background. It’s worth noting that the book in the woman’s hands is very important and telling. At the time Van Gogh painted this masterpiece, it would have been known by viewers that the reader in the painting was holding a “modern” novel which were typically published as yellow-covered paperbacks. Van Gogh differed from most men of his time in thinking that women should be allowed to read modern novels to influence their thinking and worldview. Along with confirmation from the title of the piece, “The Novel Reader” proffers an ideology that was important to the famous artist. 

“The Novel Reader” is thought to have been created around mid-November 1888 in Arles, France. The subject of this painting is rendered in an expressionistic style leading historians to believe that it was an experimental painting of Van Gogh’s. Typically, the artist would work from a model for his paintings, however, this figure was seemingly concocted from his imagination. An idea that another prominent painter, Paul Gaugin, encouraged...read more