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Vincent van Gogh's life and work are so intertwined that it is hardly possible to observe one without thinking of the other. Van Gogh has indeed become the incarnation of the suffering, misunderstood martyr of modern art, the emblem of the artist as an outsider. An article, published in 1890, gave details about van Gogh's illness. The author of the article saw the painter as "a terrible and demented genius, often sublime, sometimes grotesque, always...

A simplified discussion of the art of Pablo Picasso with examples showing the various techniques used in his works.

A brief biography of this French artist accompanies color reproductions and analyses of fifteen of his paintings.

Explains some basic techniques of Da Vinci by analyzing a few of his better known paintings.

A brief biography of this nineteenth-century French artist accompanies reproductions and analyses of several of his works.

The author's original poems are illustrated with photographs and with famous paintings by Frederic Remington, Charles Russell, and others.