Van Gogh Paintings The Masterpieces.

Hardcover with dustjacket, Number of pages: 192, Dimensions: 29 x 24 cm with 166 full colour illustrations. The paintings of Vincent Van Gogh have a singular effect on the viewer. His masterpieces are living creations, their subjects readily identifiable and totally human. Nothing bars the way to our immediate recognition. The painter employs a direct form of artistic language, clear, visual, tactile, with the painting apparently advancing to meet the spectator. The seeming simplicity of Van Goghs finest work appeals to all and sundry, whatever their social background or status, their education, age, language or origins. Van Goghs brush was guided by a remarkable intelligence, never at rest and blazingly sincere, which also found expression in a continuous flood of letters to his family and friends. His correspondence helps to explain how his paintings operate at a level that is deeper, more suggestive and associative.Van Gogh is universally popular for many reasons, but chiefly, one suspects, for the simple, unalloyed pleasure his work inspires.Released in English, French and Dutch as new !