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Van Gogh, Victorians, and vintage beauty

By Mark Feeney

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 22, 2012

The final four years of Vincent van Gogh’s life were a time of artistic and personal tumult. The 40 paintings in this Philadelphia Museum of Art exhibition focus on that period. Moving from Antwerpto Paris, he absorbed significant new influences - Impression, Pointillism, Japanese - before moving again, to Arles, in the south of France. There he perfected his vivid, expressionist style, communicating on canvas an unprecedented sense of emotional engagement with nature.

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