http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/ Copyright 2006 Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:58:31 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype//?v=1.03 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The London Sunflowers (left) The Yasuda Sunflowers (right)... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/painting_compar.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/painting_compar.html Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:58:31 -0500 Derrick Leung is a freshman at Princeton University and a prospective major in Operations Research and Financial Engineering. He currently serves on the board of the Asian American Students Association as the organization's Treasurer, though he is a born-and-raised... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/about_the_autho.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/about_the_autho.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:17:35 -0500 The Vincent Van Gogh Gallery http://www.vangoghgallery.com/... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/related_links.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/related_links.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:17:01 -0500 I would first like to acknowledge my writing partners, Regina Lee and Stephen Tavares, for the advice and feedback I received for the drafts of my work. Furthermore, my thanks go to each individual in my writing seminar class, WRI... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/works_cited.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/works_cited.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:16:29 -0500 Of the works painted by Vincent van Gogh in the final years of his life, none have generated more public controversy for being forged works than his series of sunflower paintings, and more particularly, Sunflowers (pictured to the left).... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/multiple_forger.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/multiple_forger.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:14:05 -0500 "Your pictures at the exhibition are having a lot of success. The other day Diaz stopped me in the street and said, 'Give your brother my compliments and tell him that his pictures are highly remarkable.' Monet said that your... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/the_exhibition.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/the_exhibition.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:12:30 -0500 As Peter Plagens and Yahlin Chang note in "Van Gogh or No Gogh?", van Gogh's Sunflowers are, paradoxically, "instantly recognizable but easy to imitate," (Plagens and Chang, 72) due not only to the inconsistent style of its copies, but... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/provenance_of_t.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/provenance_of_t.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:11:13 -0500 Paul Gauguin's, Portrait of Vincent Van Gogh Painting Sunflowers, Arles 1888 (pictured to the left), symbolizes Vincent van Gogh's most famed, but contentious, collaboration with a fellow contemporary â€" Gauguin himself. Apparently, suspected forgeries were not the only facets... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/paul_gauguin_an.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/paul_gauguin_an.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:10:03 -0500 Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh Provenance of the Yasuda Painting The Exhibition that Never Existed Multiple Forgeries... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/supplementary_p.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/supplementary_p.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:07:39 -0500 At long last, does a confirmation of the authenticity of the Yasuda Sunflowers actually matter? No. Instead, the addition of possibly forged Sunflowers pieces in van Gogh's repertoire causes us to scrutinize his works, which is valuable because it... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/conclusion.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/conclusion.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:06:34 -0500 Nevertheless, these nuggets of fairly convincing evidence disproving the validity of the Yasuda Sunflowers are challenged by opposing opinions of other renowned critics who capitalize on this lack of extensive research. One compelling piece of evidence supporting this side... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/validity_of_the.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/validity_of_the.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:54:14 -0500 Purchased at a Christie's auction in March 1987 for US 39.9 million dollars by Japanese insurance magnate, Yasuo Goto, of the Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Japan, the painting's sale immediately stirred public controversy. Soon after, doubts... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/stylistic_incon.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/stylistic_incon.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:51:59 -0500 Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers Vincent van Gogh Oil on canvas 95.0 x 73.0 cm. January 1889 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam In order to understand the importance of forged Sunflowers paintings to van Gogh's reputation, we must first... http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/the_definition.html http://blogs.princeton.edu/writingart11/2005/01/the_definition.html Mon, 03 Jan 2005 16:49:26 -0500