Vincent van Gogh Blog
Douglas Coupland
What’s your type?
July 25, 2016Douglas Coupland’s casting call to find Vincent van Gogh’s living doppelgänger Source: FT Magazine I remember January of 1990 and being dead broke and living in Montreal. In the afternoons, I’d buy a subway ticket and go back and forth from one end...
A Facial Analysis
July 11, 2016
Road Trip – Part 3
July 8, 2016Paul and Vincent's relationship was complicated. Vincent was a difficult soul and Gauguin, to his credit, was patient when most other people would have given up. I suspect that Vincent could have been deeply annoying to be around at times. Genius! Vincent also ate his paints (...
Road Trip – continued
June 30, 2016
Madame Tussauds Wax Museum
June 29, 2016Welcome to Madame Tussauds wax museum in London. Wax museums were like the virtual reality of the early 20th century.
Road Trip!
June 22, 2016Over the next few weeks my friend, Graham Roumieu (#hellobigfoot) will be adding some sketches of Vincent and Paul Gauguin's road trip together. It begins here.
Redhead Day in Holland
June 20, 2016https://youtu.be/cpKOX6oeHXE Redhead Day in Holland! http://www.redheaddays.nl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJYCj9j4Hfw
Lust for life
June 11, 2016If you find yourself incapable of feeling emotion, do watch the following compilation clip.
Doctor who
June 10, 2016Scottish actor Tony Curran plays Vincent in a Season 05 episode of Dr. Who. This clip is amazingly emotional and explains the world’s enduring love of VvG. Everybody loves Vincent Van Gogh — the idea of Vincent — the fact that we’re all aware of our pot...
Thoughts
June 9, 2016I’m thinking down the road of the next Redhead project, and I really do want to make a cast aluminum tableau of Ann-Margret as she appeared in the scene from Tommy (1975) where she’s drunk and throws a champagne bottle at her TV set — from which blasts a cascade ...
Van Gogh fun facts
June 7, 2016Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette, 1885–86, oil on canvas, Van Gogh Museum Above is the world’s most bad-ass painting ever. It just is. Fun fact 1: The ‘v’ in ‘van’ is spelled In lower case when Vincent’s full name appears: &...
On Making Big Heads
June 7, 2016Above left: Gumhead 2014 Douglas Coupland Fiberglass shell and roughly 250,000 pieces of chewing gum Above right: Gumhead minus the gum Over the past decade I’ve been making a lot of art and public art involving large heads. Above is “Gumhead” which began as...
Entourage
June 5, 2016Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Portrait of Vincent van Gogh, 1887, pastel drawing, Van Gogh Museum I was looking at the lovely 1887 pastel portrait of Vincent by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. It seems to be of Vincent in a café or public space, which was Toulouse-Lautrec&rsqu...
