New Exhibit in Philly Looks at Van Gogh Close Up

People tour through the galleries during the media availability for the Van Gogh Close Up exhibit at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Friday, Jan. 27, 2012 in Philadelphia. The exhibit opens February 1st. Photo by Alex Brandon / AP

By Joann Loviglio from the Stamford Advocate

A new blockbuster exhibition takes a close-up look at Vincent van Gogh’s groundbreaking shift during the personally tumultuous but artistically triumphant last four years of his life in France.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is the only U.S. stop for “Van Gogh Up Close,” which opens Wednesday and will be on view until May 6.

The exhibit features 46 landscapes and still lifes painted by van Gogh from his 1886 arrival in Paris until his apparent 1890 suicide in Auvers at age 37. Many of the paintings, procured from museums and private collections, highlight the Dutch post-Impressionist’s radical shift in approach during this brief but artistically prolific period.

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