Matthew Wong | Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a Last Resort
Matthew Wong | Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a Last Resort
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Description
The Chinese-Canadian artist Matthew Wong (1984–2019) employed colour expressively, using thick and dynamically applied paint to instil his personality in his work. Self-taught, he explored Western and Chinese art history himself, finding an important example in the work of Vincent van Gogh.
The two artists gave expression to their inner worlds with a similar immediacy. There are striking parallels, moreover, between the lives of Wong and Van Gogh: both spent a great deal of time searching for their vocation in life before eventually finding it in painting.
The connections between the two artists are examined in detail in this publication through a survey of Matthew Wong’s impressive body of work.
‘I see myself in him. The impossibility of belonging in this world.’ Matthew Wong on Vincent van Gogh
Specs
Paperback, 176 pages, available in English and Dutch. Edited by Joost van der Hoeven. With contributions by Kenny Schachter, Richard Shiff, Sofia Silva and John Yau.
- Article number:
- VG_331318
- Brand:
- Van Gogh Museum | Tijdsgeest
- Length:
- 27 cm
- Width:
- 25 cm
- Height:
- 2 cm
- Weight:
- 1 kg.
- ISBN:
- 9789493070486 (EN)
Exhibition Matthew Wong | Vincent van Gogh on show at the Van Gogh Museum from 1 March - 1 September 2024.
