“The Essence of Earthiness: Van Gogh’s Peasants,” by Judy Sund, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Where: The Frick Collection
1 E. 70th St.
212-288-0700 Price: Free
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Van Gogh’s portraits of Patience Escalier, one of which will be on loan to the Frick this fall, were part of his long-term project to capture the essence of the peasant. Inspired by literary descriptions as well as by the art of the past, he was intent on giving definitive form to a well-established type. Abandoning strict accuracy in favor of evocative color and texture, van Gogh aimed to convey a sense of the agrarian laborer’s life on the land and to capture something “truer than the literal truth.”
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