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French president Emmanuel Macron visits a Vermeer exhibition in Amsterdam with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte ahead of a working dinner. Macron is on the first state visit by a French president to the Netherlands in 23 years. IMAGES
Amsterdam, Oct 7 (EFE) .- (Camera: Imane Rachidi) For Vincent van Gogh, "The Potato Eaters" (1885) was his masterpiece with a realistic message, and he prepared it with dedication, but his brother Theo believed that it was full of mistakes and no one would take it seriously in the Paris art market, so he let it dust on his mantelpiece.FOOTAGE FROM THE EXHIBITION PRESENTED AT THE VAN GOGH MUSEUM IN AMSTERDAM. IT INCLUDES STATEMENTS TO EFE DE BREGJE GERRITSE, CURATOR OF THE EXHIBITION.1. He was not looking for technical perfection with his painting, but the message he wanted to convey about peasant life, about the crude honesty of hard life in the countryside. For him, the painting was a success, and although he did not use the term ‘masterpiece’, he considered it similar to the Sunflowers, his Room or La Berceuse.2. His brother Theo was not very impressed, and received harsh criticism from his friend and painter Anthon van Rappard. But Van Gogh continued to believe in his work, for him the message transmitted was more important than the mistakes he had made in painting.3. In 1887, he wrote to his sister Guillermina: "This is my best work." That is very interesting because by then he had already gone to Paris, he had changed his working methods and his style, using more bright colors, but he still had the dark painting of Nuenen in mind.4. If even your best friend and painter Van Rappard was very enthusiastic about the work, no one would have been in Paris. It was just a very dark image, a very difficult subject, it was not a very attractive painting, especially because of all the modern art developments that were happening in Paris that he was still unaware of at the time.
Madrid, Oct 4 (EFE) .- (Camera: Leo Redondo) "Bringing the Spanish public an unknown story about Ibero-American art." The exhibition “Tornaviaje. Ibero-American Art in Spain ”, which arrives at the Prado Museum to present the links and exchanges of artistic works between Spain and Latin America after the conquest of the new continent through more than a hundred works.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION.
Amsterdam, Sep 16 (EFE).- (Camera: Imane Rachidi) The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has unveiled a new drawing by the eponymous Dutch artist, a preliminary work for the 1882 painting "Worn out", one of the best-known from the painter’s time living in The Hague.The piece, a sketch that will be exhibited in the gallery from Friday, shows an old worker, seemingly tired, dressed in a bombazine suit, with his back hunched and sitting on a wooden chair, his head in his hands, and with his elbows resting on his legs. FOOTAGE OF THE DRAWING AT THE VAN GOGH MUSEUM.SOUNDBITES OF TEIO MEEDENDORP, MUSEUM'S MAIN INVESTIGATOR.
Paris, Jan 8 (EFE) .- (Camera: Josep Puig López) Several museums in France are looking for a way to continue showing their collections, despite not being able to receive public due to the restrictions derived from the coronavirus pandemic, and options lead to collaborations and broadcasts on the internet.FOOTAGE OF THE EXHIBITION GIACOMETTI EXHIBITION IN THE PARIS MUSEUM.SOUNDBITES OF HUGO DANIEL, CURATOR."The relationship between Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti was not well documented although its echoes and the deep affinity between their works are very important, the two artists knew each other for a very long period of time, from the 1930s until the death of Giacometti in 60."
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