Thursday, July 31, 2008

2 Van Gogh's for the price of 1

Van Gogh was such a passionate painter, and so desperately poor for materials, he painted some paintings over others.
clipped from news.yahoo.com


AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) -
Scientists have made a colored
view of an early rejected painting underneath Vincent van
Gogh's 'Patch of Grass' painting, using advanced X-ray
techniques, a Dutch university said on Wednesday.


The very detailed image shows the face of a woman and may
give art historians a better understanding of the way Van Gogh
developed as a painter.


"It is estimated that one third of Vincent van Gogh's early
paintings have been painted on top of existing ones. Van Gogh
literally recycled his own canvasses," scientist Joris Dik of
the Delft University of Technology said.

Undated handout picture shows a painting underneath Van Gogh's famous work 'Patch of grass' in Hamburg. Scientists have made a coloured view of an early rejected painting underneath Vincent van Gogh's 'Patch of Grass' painting, using advanced X-ray techniques, a Dutch university said on Wednesday. (DESY/Reuters)
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