{"id":111,"date":"2010-09-23T16:16:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T20:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=111"},"modified":"2010-09-24T11:46:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T15:46:40","slug":"a-new-dimension-in-van-goghs-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/09\/23\/a-new-dimension-in-van-goghs-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"A new dimension in Van Gogh’s paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over at the Artcyclopedia, edited by John Malyon, a new slideshow has appeared<\/a>, showcasing versions of 12 paintings by Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh which have been digitally manipulated to look like photos of three-dimensional models.<\/p>\n

In tilt-shift photography<\/a>, a special lens is used which lends the illusion that a photo is of a miniature model (Artcyclopedia has some stunning examples<\/a> of the technique). For this Van Gogh gallery, Photoshop was used to simulate the effects of this tift-shift method, by adjusting the contrast, saturation, and depth of focus of some of the artist’s most famous paintings. The results can be startling, as in this version of Van Gogh’s 1888 painting, “The Painter on His Way to Work”:<\/p>\n

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(click here to see the original<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Van Gogh’s art is studied in the second-year Core Humanities, and often provide Core students with stimulating paper topics. He was, after all, quite an interesting figure; once, he claimed that he wanted to create an image that could make the viewer go mad: his “Night Caf\u00e9<\/a>” was the result. \u00a0 He lived his life believing himself to be a failure, unaware of the fame he would receive after death.<\/p>\n

Annalisa Dias-Mandoly (Core ’08, CAS ’10), \u00a0was \u00a0inspired by Van Gogh’s “Starry Night<\/a>” to write the following poem, which appeared in the Core Journal<\/a> in Spring 2008:<\/p>\n

STARRY NIGHT
\nLet me live in a cave for all my life.
\nShimmering starlight blinds my eyes
\nAnd, in agony, I try to turn away,
\nBut everywhere radiance remains.
\nI would rather be comfortable and safe.
\nSo let me live in a cave and outlast the day.
\nI accept your shackles with heartfelt thanks.
\nThey take the fault off my back.
\nYes, let me keep my back to the world-
\nWatching shadows dance along in silence,
\nI will write their stories with my dry wit.
\nHere again, as always, I and we and
\nAll those sad and sorry ones sleep
\nAway the light, straining in the night
\nTo see past reflected starbeams.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

*<\/p>\n

Did you know? <\/strong>There is an entire website<\/a> devoted to the personal letters Van Gogh sent to his brother Theo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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