Vincent van Gogh
It is Sunday, so time to present a masterpiece from our partner, which is one of our favorite museums, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam! Enjoy!
This painting was long thought to be a self-portrait of Vincent; another view, however, is that it shows his brother Theo. The brothers, naturally, bore a striking resemblance to one another. Unfortunately, there is no decisive evidence to determine who is actually portrayed, which is why the painting now has a double title.
The portrait is unusually small and painted in considerable detail. Van Gogh was probably trying to compete with portrait photos. He had written some time earlier, "it's a cause worth fighting for to show people that there's something else in human beings besides what the photographer is able to get out of them with his machine."
P.S. Here are the 10 iconic self-portraits by Van Gogh you need to know. :)
P.P.S. If you can't get enough of Van Gogh, please check out our Vincent Van Gogh Notebook with Vincent's quotes here. :)